joke du jour 1883 1/2
Miss Gushington (to young widow whose husband has left her a large fortune): “That is the fourteenth mourning costume I have seen you wear in three days and each lovelier and more becoming than the other!"

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Aww perfect 🥰❤😍 love Vic too much.Hehehe I do I do 🥰 yup all mine 😈

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on a jealous husband, his cold-hearted, faithless, abominable wife, an insurance policy, and the undertaker. Hilarity ensues. https://t.co/ShshR98H15

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A Merry Company, [not practising social distancing] Disturbed by Death, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1660
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1882 widow snark 2/2.
Probably the principal change [the widow] feels from his loss is one in her income, and men have been known to designedly curtail the finances in such instances in order to insure that they should be missed in some degree.

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L. Crusius illustration "Ein Stein!" for 1899 Antikamnia patent medicine calendar. https://t.co/vDXX8qQ2I5

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Victor x my MC (I don’t like her canon appereance)

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Although the Resurrection Men sold corpses, legally a body was not property. Bodies were often stripped; it was a felony to steal shrouds or silver coffin fittings. [Image-Thomas Rowlandson, 1775]
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