Printeress

The “Historia Economico-politica y Estadistica de la Isla de Cuba,” (printed by the Widows of Arazoza y Soler, Printeresses of the Government, & c. Havana, 1831,)[…].

Our Union is very small, only two offices, but we are hopeful of the future. No discontent. All harmony. We have one office in town that is anti-Union all over; it employs a lot of fair unfair printeresses. We hope they will repent before a century expires.

The new millinery establishment evidently means business. It patronizes the painter and the printer The painteresses and the printeresses will, no doubt, return the compliment.

[…]a pleasant little reunion yesterday afternoon at the residence of Charlotte Smith, No. 1004 Olive Street., to celebrate the formation of the Women’s Printing company. This has long been a favorite project with Mrs. Smith, and with her usual pluck she resolved to constitute herself a nucleus around whom should gather all the competent, able-minded, and able-bodied printeresses who felt disposed to unite in the enterprise.

One of our printeresses has got the dead wood on any jail, if she should ever be so unfortunate as to ever be locked up in one.

ABOUT PRINTERESSES. Some unsophisticated editor in the southern portion of the State advertises for two girls to learn the printer’s trade.

Typographical Union, No. 2, expects to “take the cake” in the Bi-Centennial parade of Tuesday, October 24. The Sixth New Jersey Band, about four hundred printers in line, a corps of apprentices, and two elegant banners—the gift of fair printeresses—are expected to accomplish the object.

At noon on Saturday last, with stream-eyes and perspiring brow, The Leader man bade farewell to printers and the printeresses and the printers devil and rushed frantically to the Santa Fe depot and got there just in time to jump on the platform of a car of the fast out-going train, westward bound.