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STORY OF A FOUNDLING

... a senseless joke. Some young men asked a lady living in a hotel at Salinas City to carry a letter on which was written ' April fool' to the room of a gentleman named Downey, who was staying in the hoteL The lady's husband, Mr Dennison ' seeing her come ...

Published: Friday 05 June 1874
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2164 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EAST OF FIFE RECORD, Ann, 8, 1892

... be given you but once to he ' great.' • Brach's' mirth over 'said' was extremely comical, and he proved himself a genuine April fool. highly educated' as he is, he knows apparently very little of that ' mighty lever that rates the world'—the ;rem Let me ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1892
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2801 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE PEACE CRUSADE

... practice of making people fools. In this country it is usually termed All Fools Day, and the person imposed upon an April fool, or as in Scotland an April Gowk. In France this person is called a Poisson d'Avrir that is a mackerel or a silly fish ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1899
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5417 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

11 15 C K 11 A V E\

... day, but next Sunday there are to be two usual during the snowier. --In the beginning of the month there was a little April fooling, a practice that has long prevailed, but here it has in a great measure very properly fallen into disuetude. ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1881
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 396 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOLK•MEIiIC!NE

... ones had gone into the second class-room to have a working hour. which came twice a week. Five months had elapsed since April-fool's day, and Mabel had become much steadier. The fact of her having to return to England soon, had quickened her diligence ...

Published: Friday 17 November 1876
Newspaper: East of Fife Record
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2829 | Page: 4 | Tags: none