The Striped pig.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Series:

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society.

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society

Language:

English

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Frequency unknown

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1, 1838)-

Place of Publication:

[Massachusetts?] : [publisher not identified], 1838-

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

The "striped pig" refers to an incident at a Dedham, Mass. muster in 1838. Tickets, entitling the holder to a viewing of a painted pig and a "free" drink, were sold, thus circumventing a Massachusetts liquor law forbidding the sale of alcohol in quantities smaller than fifteen gallons. Cf. Tatham, David. The lure of the striped pig, 1973, p. 64.

One of two rival periodicals, established shortly after the Dedham incident. This one has volume numbering and date, and no place of publication. Masthead illustration shows a man with drinking glass, jumping a striped pig over a 15 gal. barrel, with pyramids and a palm tree in the background.

Masthead title.

Not recorded in ULS.

OCLC:

1041936705

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