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Add no-break spaces before inch abbreviations in Ch. 17
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<p class="query">What were habitually his final meditations?</p>
<p>Of some one sole unique advertisement to cause passers to stop in wonder, a poster novelty, with all extraneous accretions excluded, reduced to its simplest and most efficient terms not exceeding the span of casual vision and congruous with the velocity of modern life.</p>
<p class="query">What did the first drawer unlocked contain?</p>
<p>A Vere Foster’s handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked <q>Papli</q>, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend <q>Mizpah</q>, the date <abbr>Xmas</abbr> <time datetime="1892">1892</time>, the name of the senders: from <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mr</abbr> and <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mrs</abbr> <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">M.</abbr> Comerford, the versicle: <q>May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee</q>: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Messrs</abbr> Hely’s, <abbr>Ltd.</abbr>, 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt « J » pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in <time datetime="1886">1886</time> concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone’s Home Rule bill of <time datetime="1886">1886</time> (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket no 2004, of <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">S.</abbr> Kevin’s Charity Fair, price 6<abbr class="eoc">d.</abbr> 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, ℅ <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr> Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, ℅ <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr> Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrephodontic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/W.OKS.MH/Y.IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodical <i epub:type="se:name.publication.magazine">Modern Society</i>, subject corporal chastisement in girls’ schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year <time datetime="1899">1899</time>: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr>, Charing Cross, London, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">W. C.</abbr>: 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation, inferior position). b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr>, Charing Cross, London, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">W. C.</abbr>: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a 1<abbr>d.</abbr> adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled, before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser (men’s 15/‒, athlete’s 20/‒) <abbr>viz.</abbr>, chest 28 <abbr>in</abbr> and 29½ <abbr>in</abbr>, biceps 9 <abbr>in</abbr> and 10 <abbr>in</abbr>, forearm 8½ and 9 <abbr>in</abbr>, thigh 10 <abbr>in</abbr> and 12 <abbr>in</abbr>, calf, 11 <abbr>in</abbr> and 12 <abbr>in</abbr>: 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world’s greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">E. C.</abbr>, addressed to <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mrs</abbr> <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">L.</abbr> Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.</p>
<p>A Vere Foster’s handwriting copybook, property of Milly (Millicent) Bloom, certain pages of which bore diagram drawings marked <q>Papli</q>, which showed a large globular head with 5 hairs erect, 2 eyes in profile, the trunk full front with 3 large buttons, 1 triangular foot: 2 fading photographs of queen Alexandra of England and of Maud Branscombe, actress and professional beauty: a Yuletide card, bearing on it a pictorial representation of a parasitic plant, the legend <q>Mizpah</q>, the date <abbr>Xmas</abbr> <time datetime="1892">1892</time>, the name of the senders: from <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mr</abbr> and <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mrs</abbr> <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">M.</abbr> Comerford, the versicle: <q>May this Yuletide bring to thee, Joy and peace and welcome glee</q>: a butt of red partly liquefied sealing wax, obtained from the stores department of <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Messrs</abbr> Hely’s, <abbr>Ltd.</abbr>, 89, 90 and 91 Dame street: a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt « J » pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in <time datetime="1886">1886</time> concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone’s Home Rule bill of <time datetime="1886">1886</time> (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket no 2004, of <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">S.</abbr> Kevin’s Charity Fair, price 6<abbr class="eoc">d.</abbr> 100 prizes: an infantile epistle, dated, small em monday, reading: capital pee Papli comma capital aitch How are you note of interrogation capital eye I am very well full stop new paragraph signature with flourishes capital em Milly no stop: a cameo brooch, property of Ellen Bloom (born Higgins), deceased: 3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, ℅ <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr> Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, ℅ <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr> Dolphin’s Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrephodontic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/W.OKS.MH/Y.IM: a press cutting from an English weekly periodical <i epub:type="se:name.publication.magazine">Modern Society</i>, subject corporal chastisement in girls’ schools: a pink ribbon which had festooned an Easter egg in the year <time datetime="1899">1899</time>: two partly uncoiled rubber preservatives with reserve pockets, purchased by post from Box 32, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr>, Charing Cross, London, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">W. C.</abbr>: 1 pack of 1 dozen creamlaid envelopes and feintruled notepaper, watermarked, now reduced by 3: some assorted Austrian-Hungarian coins: 2 coupons of the Royal and Privileged Hungarian Lottery: a lowpower magnifying glass: 2 erotic photocards showing: a) buccal coition between nude senorita (rere presentation, superior position) and nude torero (fore presentation, inferior position). b) anal violation by male religious (fully clothed, eyes abject) of female religious (partly clothed, eyes direct), purchased by post from Box 32, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">P. O.</abbr>, Charing Cross, London, <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">W. C.</abbr>: a press cutting of recipe for renovation of old tan boots: a 1<abbr>d.</abbr> adhesive stamp, lavender, of the reign of Queen Victoria: a chart of measurements of Leopold Bloom compiled, before, during and after 2 months of consecutive use of Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser (men’s 15/‒, athlete’s 20/‒) <abbr>viz.</abbr>, chest 28 <abbr>in</abbr> and 29½ <abbr>in</abbr>, biceps 9 <abbr>in</abbr> and 10 <abbr>in</abbr>, forearm 8½ and 9 <abbr>in</abbr>, thigh 10 <abbr>in</abbr> and 12 <abbr>in</abbr>, calf, 11 <abbr>in</abbr> and 12 <abbr>in</abbr>: 1 prospectus of the Wonderworker, the world’s greatest remedy for rectal complaints, direct from Wonderworker, Coventry House, South Place, London <abbr epub:type="z3998:initialism">E. C.</abbr>, addressed to <abbr epub:type="z3998:name-title">Mrs</abbr> <abbr epub:type="z3998:given-name">L.</abbr> Bloom with brief accompanying note commencing: Dear Madam.</p>
<p class="query">Quote the textual terms in which the prospectus claimed advantages for this thaumaturgic remedy.</p>
<p>It heals and soothes while you sleep, in case of trouble in breaking wind, assists nature in the most formidable way, insuring instant relief in discharge of gases, keeping parts clean and free natural action, an initial outlay of 7/6 making a new man of you and life worth living. Ladies find Wonderworker especially useful, a pleasant surprise when they note delightful result like a cool drink of fresh spring water on a sultry summer’s day. Recommend it to your lady and gentlemen friends, lasts a lifetime. Insert long round end. Wonderworker.</p>
<p class="query">Were there testimonials?</p>
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