Jerome,
I liked the fruits of your Punch Research. The library of the technical college which I attended had a bound set of Punch from the first issue until about 1930; probably the gift of some alumnus wiped out in the Crash of '29.
I stumbled on them in my sophomore year, and spent many happy hours perusing them. Alas, my grades suffered from loss of study time.
"was 'Mr Ed' any relation to 'Francis the Talking Mule'?"
Good question - I suspect they might have been distant cousins, in a showbiz sense. Francis was a career military fellow, and Mr. Ed lived in suburban New York. I saw a couple of the Francis movies when I was a kid. The theater was packed with kids, and we got in for 25 cents. Those were the days, as Archie Bunker used to sing.
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