Citation - Allied Mercury: 1781.11.12

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Index Entry Balls, in London, public, given by Factotum, Isaac, in satire 
Location London 
Citation
AM.781.002
12 Nov 1781:32 (8)
The following droll hand-bill was distributed at a late
Masqued-ball, at the Festino Rooms in Hanover Square,
London.
Isaac Fac-totom, 
Barber, periwig-maker, surgeon, parish clerk, school-master,
blacksmith & man-midwife.
  Shaves for a penny, cuts hair for two pence.
Young ladies genteelly educated.
Lamps lighted by the year or quarter.  Also psalm singing
and horse-shoeing by the real maker.
  Likewise makes and mends all sorts of boots and shoes,
teaches the hoboy and jew's harp, cuts corns, bleeds and
blisters on the lowest terms.
  Cowtillons and other dances taught at home or abroad. Also
deals wholesale and retail.  Sells all sorts of stationary
ware, together with blacking-balls, red herrings
gingerbread, coals, scrubbing brushes, treacle, mouse-traps,
and other sweet-meats.
  N.B.  I teach joggraffy, and them outlandish kind of
things.  A ball on Wednesdays and Fridays.  All performed
(God willing by me )
  Isaac Fac Totom.


Generic Title Allied Mercury 
Date 1781.11.12 
Publisher Kline, George 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1781 
Bibliography B0000018
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