Factual error: Curly Joe asks the bartender for a Coke. John Pemberton created Coca-Cola in 1886. The movie is set in 1871.
Factual error: In a scene set in 1871, several newspaper articles get printed on Moe's face as he falls onto a printing press. Curly Joe reads that "AT&T is splitting two for one." American Telephone and Telegraph Company was founded in 1885.