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CORRESPONDENCE. MR WILLIAM BLAIR AND COUNCILLOR MARTIN, GLASGOW. THE EDITOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. Sir, —As an ..

... not necessarily stamp it as a hoax, although scandalous tongues are already busy with their jeering suggestions. Sir Blair April fool,” indeed ! I crave leave, sir, in name of the worthy gentleman, to throw back the slanderous insinuation.—l am, &c., A. ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMERICAN HUMOUR

... that tho sight a foot of mud on the principal streets carried his mind back to boyhood days. He said he was glad to see April Fool Day only few hours away. Spring was always close behind it, and strawberriestrod closely on the heels spring. He charged ...

Published: Tuesday 24 April 1877
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 659 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A PAINFUL FAMILY DIFFERENCE

... fireman he rushed to rescue the misguided woman. Alas ! they found it waa only a dummy, which had pinned to ita skirts April FooL— Montreal Witness. United and Obthodox Gbebks.— A letter from Moscow in a Prussian paper states that the union of ail the ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1875
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... month of the year. It was the first of April. doubt what it all meant. Some pitiless wag had made his mind to make me an April fool. It was dub-room joke—one of the fair returns of the “ devil in solution” for giving to him that now familiar sobriquet ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1645 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ODDS AND ENDS

... And wed the OaUican r thn wife nnrtain coble dona her best ?«nr make her husband the Ist J&rd what in ▼ulgarly eaUnd, “*n April fool.” Of mem thn tank annaaJW morn and mere difficult, but she generally manatee to auecead. year ahe her wita* end what to ...

Published: Saturday 17 May 1879
Newspaper: Dundee Weekly News
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1408 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LOSS OF THE ATLANTIC

... ). —A report current that steamer has been wrecked on the coast and several lives lost was at first regarded as a cruel April fool hoax, but this evening the Cunard agents here received news that it was all true, and that only little of the truth had ...

Published: Monday 14 April 1873
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1648 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... on the premises, had to be sworn on John* sen's Dictionary. Brown says that married man sometimes finds himself to bean April fool sooa after the wedding march. Lord Palmerston once said, speaking of the Turks, What energy can be expected of people with ...

Published: Tuesday 26 August 1879
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STONEHAVEN

... near. She laughed in his face, and said —It is the first of April Now, what life and jollity was here—to make her heir April fool her hundredth year! The Richmond Hoax.—One of the best practical jokes in Theodore Hook's clever Gilbert Gurney, is Daly's ...

Published: Monday 24 July 1871
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2135 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE LOSS OF THE ATLANTIC

... (Afternoon). —A report current that a steamer has been wrecked on the coast and several lives lost was first regarded a cruel April fool hoax, but this evening the Cunard agents here received news that it was all true, and that only a little of the' truth ...

Published: Tuesday 15 April 1873
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2604 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MONTROSE, ARBROATH, AND BREOHIN REVIEW

... .—A report current that a steamer has been wrecked on the coast and several lives lost was at first regarded as a cruel April fool hoax, but this evening the Cunard agents here received news that it was all true, and that only a little of the truth had ...

Published: Friday 18 April 1873
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3764 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GR UN AND FLOUR

... who represents him is named Edward Askew Sothern. There is nothing in common between the docile follies of the ordinary April fool and the mysterious aberrations of Lord Dundreary. RAILWAY PASSENGER DUTY. {From the Railway Netc*.) As there appears to ...

Published: Tuesday 26 January 1875
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3651 | Page: 3 | Tags: none