Happy Hooligan — St. Louis Republic, April 5, 1903

This Sunday page from *The Republic* (St. Louis, April 5, 1903) does not actually reproduce a comic strip: the full broadsheet is a department-store advertisement for B. Nugent & Bros. Dry Goods, announcing spring and Easter merchandise. No strip panels, speech balloons, or cartoon characters are visible on this page. The catalog assigns the date to Happy Hooligan — Frederick Burr Opper's beloved tin-can-hatted tramp, syndicated by Hearst from 1900 — whose Sunday pages pioneered sequential panel storytelling alongside Outcault's *Yellow Kid* and Dirks's *Katzenjammer Kids*, the direct ancestors of the comic book format. The strip itself does not appear on this surviving page.