Author: [Party Menu]. Rusty Spoon Caffay
Title: JIGGS PARTY GIVEN At RUSTY SPOON CAFFAY. Lot of 4 Menus for the Rusty Spoon Caffay for Wednesday, July 21, 1937
Description: (n. p.): Rusty Spoon Caffay, 1937. 4 menus, two printed on buff stiff stock paper, and then one each printed on green and red paper. 4 sheets, printed recto only. 8-1/4" x 4-1/2". Moderate wear to paper (age-toning, sunning and rubbing to edges). About VG examples of each menu. The Jiggs Party offers lovely concoctions on their "Grub List", such as: "Jiggs Delight and Maggies Disgust", "Adam and Eve on a Raft (Shipwrecked if you like)", "Chicken from the Neighbors Flocks", "No Milk, Our Cow refussed today so we fired him" and "Fresh Roast Beff [sic]". They leave their diners with this disclaimer: "Not responsidle for Coates, infants or hip flasks unles checked IF YOU PLEASED DON'TTELLUS. Welikethetruth." [all sic]. Believed to be menus picked up by two travelers on the SS President Lincoln of the Dollar Steamship Lines, as below is stated "En Route Cristobal".

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