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APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. The April fish, the poisson d'Avril, is the French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Lit is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there is Hindu feast ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1910
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

April Fool

... April Fool April I. or All Fools* Day. not a purely British custom, having been celebrated in India from time immemorial by a festival known as the Holi. It is celebrated much the same in this country, with the exception that the voung Hindus are addicted ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1934
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. TI ere is an Cunifierland worthy named Toni H who has reached the mature age of eighty, but his eye is not yet dim nor his rustle wit abated. A pert young fellow tried to play a trick upon him the First of April, but the old man was not ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1900
Newspaper: Leith Burghs Pilot
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

'' April Fool – Talk

... April Fool ’’ T talk which Scottish listeners “Apel to hear to-morrow 1s of an a foolish ” nature. It is gives by Muir © ee the identity of one of Edinbu humorous writers and speakers. ele ue talk “* Ovetlooked from Underneath,” and it pretends to be ...

Published: Monday 31 March 1930
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL TRAGEDY. BURNING WOMAN ALLOWID TO DIE

... APRIL FOOL TRAGEDY. BURNING WOMAN ALLOWID TO DIE. How the call of a woman for help when on fire was treated as an attempt to make her fellow servants April fools was related at a Lewisham inquest yesterday on Muriel Hope Tall. According to the evidence ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1922
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Despite His Dark Plotting, Erchie Was The April Fool ERCHIE TAMSON WAS PEEVED AT WULL ANDERSON. HIS NEXT-DOOR ..

... Despite His Dark Plotting, Erchie Was The April Fool ERCHIE TAMSON WAS PEEVED AT WULL ANDERSON. HIS NEXT-DOOR NEEBOR, AN', TO GI'E ERCHIE HIS DUE, HE HAD REASON TO BE. WHEN WULL HAD BEEN A VICTIM 0' THE CIGARETTE SHORTAGE, ERCHIE HAD PRACTICALLY KEPT ...

Published: Thursday 31 March 1949
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 554 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

2.3O—ASHFORD SELLING HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 70 ovs. Two miles

... 2.3O—ASHFORD SELLING HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE of 70 ovs. Two miles. Mr H. Thomas' APRIL FOOL, 8 yrs, 12st, 7lb T. .Tarnes 1 Mr Pendarres' FITZPIt7PON, 12 yrs, list. .J. Dillon 2 Mr Hutchinson's SOLOMON'S CHOICE, 6 yrs, P. Preuciergaet 3 Also ran—Concillat ...

Published: Monday 13 October 1930
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ON THE TURF. GOOD CROWD AT GATWICK

... Two miles. Four ran. 1, REDSHANK 7 to 4 agsf. 2, HUGH O'NEILL 10 to 1 agst. 3, APRIL FOOL 9 to 2 agst. Winning jockey—J. Browne. THE FIELD. MT Wigrarn's April Fool, d yrs, 12et 71b T. James Mr G. Langiands' .Newtown Wonder, 1.; yrs, 12,t 51b .. Owner ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1930
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Novzz. Snares

... y reversed cover. Kat if I know it, be returned drily. April fool ! You can't catch me with chaff, Miss Maggie! Oh, look, please look !cried Margaret. I can't wait. It is an April fool, but it's a lovely one. Yes, Tom, don't disappoint her, ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1904
Newspaper: Mid-Lothian Journal
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 730 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OFFICIAL STARTING 1 PRICES

... . Hurdlo | 19 ) -BKYWRITER ,. 4 . to ' -. l against . ' . ,: ' ..-,. , ' . ¦ , ' ' , Novicts ' -. Steeplechase ( 8 ) -APRIL FOOL , 100 to 7 against . • .- ' • . ,.: ' •¦ : , ; .,, . . ;• ' ¦! Moderate Hurdle ( 13 ) -TR 0 UTWAL , ' 5 : to 1 1 . agjiiiisL ...

Published: Friday 14 December 1928
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 15 | Tags: none