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APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL!. The let of April, was not allowed to pass without one practical joke being played on the enemy, writes Eye-Witness. An aviator dying deer the Lille Aerodrome dropped a football. hien slowly through the air, and tall d be Qin flurrying ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1915
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

April Fool!

... April Fool! Francis. Duke of Lorraine, and his wife owed their lives to the prevalence of All Fools' pranks in France. Imprisoned at Nantes, they =strived to steal away in the disguise peasants. Recognisitig them , a woman pre the al!rT , but threantry ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1930
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! The fact that an extension until 2 a.m. had been secured, and that April lit commenced at midnight. lent an admirable oppor t un ity for the playing of an April Fool'. Day upon the whole of the intuits'. At the stroke of midnight, the baud ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1933
Newspaper: Skegness News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL:

... APRIL FOOL: April Fool Day is not so popular as it used to be. At one time, however, all sorts of silly were Played upon small boys. On that re-appeared every year consisted of sending a boy to a bookshop to buy The Life and Adventures of Eve's Mother ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1934
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! April Fool Day is wit so popular as h. used to be. At one tune, howr%er, all sorts of silly ;okra were played upon small boys. On: that re-app_wed every year conaLsteci of sending a bey to a bookshop to buy The Life and Adventures cf Eve's ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1934
Newspaper: South Notts Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. Even (he age of detective stories has not been able to detect the origins of the April fool. It has been suggested that the weather plays at this period of the year, and makes us April fools, but this striking idea is knocked out by the fact ...

Published: Tuesday 31 March 1931
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 119 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. Monday was April Ist, and the date recalls a prophecy which Hindenbnrg is reported to have mad® in the first week in February. A number of German editors called on him and warned him that By May there would not be any food in Germany. reply ...

Published: Wednesday 03 April 1918
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 62 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE APRIL FOOL

... THE APRIL FOOL Wo'oo cot im. ’o’a apoo'mia, a obampyvM number ona. , A cztry-brood ib auporur-fiUad fool Want aoatin. foil et foaboca. »ary 'ooUa'. Wban '0 aboald ’not bin a-ceitie' strop ia ochoel; y«»a. 'a went aort rooltaia' them aa parted pnain* Woo ...

Published: Monday 09 April 1900
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 419 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOl

... FOOl. The April fo.h, the poisson d'Acril, is tho French 'term for %hut v.o cal an April fool. The custom of people on fool's eirrands on April Ist is probably due to the change of the calendar in Frances in 15t4: but there is a. Hindu feast on Nlarch ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1910
Newspaper: Ashbourne Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

April Fool.

... April Fool.. O. first of April morning a little girl very anxious to make an April fool.' so she tried it on her mother. she ran into the breakfast-room sayinc. Oh. ',lemma, there's a man upstairs fit the Mailing nurse. inaulma aeked, What, dear ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1924
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL Beeston Labourer Defrauds A Chilwell Nurseryman PRIVET THAT WAS NOT GOLDEN At the beginning of April, William Parnell, aged 33, a labourer, of Willoughby - street, Beeston, fetched some privets, to plant in a garden at Wollaton Park, from ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1935
Newspaper: Long Eaton Advertiser
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 229 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! People in Auckland kept their children from schools and sealed doors and windows today when a radio station said that a swarm of wasps one mile wide was approaching the city. Later the radio station heard from the police—apologised for their ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 46 | Page: 1 | Tags: none