handbill
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“Dance!! Dance!! Dance!! to the music of the Silhouettes Band!!” read the handbill.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025
One fear-mongering handbill, “The Vaccination Vampire,” from 1881, for example, pushed the claim that vaccinations would lead to “degradation and extinction,” and were a source of “universal pollution.”
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2021
Targeting a different audience —”Mexicanos y Filipinos” — is a handbill from the time, also on the museum wall.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2019
It prohibits advertisements in “any newspaper, magazine, handbill, or other publications,” Marshall wrote.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2015
An undated eighteenth-century handbill announcing an exhibition of three of Vaucanson’s automata: the flute player, the drummer and the digesting duck.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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