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Illustration shows a man labeled "Workingman" bent over under the weight of an enormous dinner pail labeled "Tariff for Graft Only".

Caption:

The Fullest Dinner Pail

Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.26274/

Puck, May 27, 1908

Note that the dinner pail was the analog of what we'd call the lunchbox today; dinner was, at one point, the mid-day meal.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

What a terrible font on the pail. I zoomed in to read it, but still didn't realize that it said "graft" until I read your description/comment. I thought it said craft, which made no sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Puck indeed, friend