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““A Stands for April Fool: Apri! 1

... ““A Stands for April Fool: Apri! 1 Listeners who bave followed the popular series entitled ‘A Scottish Alphabet’’ during he rst month will hear a eatire on the series n April 1. This “Skittish Alphabet,” com* by sundry pens, necds only twenty ~wver ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1936
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... mainner o langsinsyne. IThus “md \ivu' Tales™ is als instructive. Anyone who lefs being made an April Fool cannat ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1936
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 39 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Woodball Spa News

... Imagine his feelings when the polling clerk advieed him to look at the calendar. It was only then that he realised what an April fool he was! When the Returning Officer was declaring the result of the poll, some exuberant spirits in the crowd—the largest ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1935
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 555 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LINCOLN ANNUAL BULL FAIR,

... Brwebri«fg.; Scampton Formula, 38gs, Hensman, Horn castle. Average £52 10s. od. i Mr. W. Drakes, Tealby, Market Rasen. Tealby April Fool, 30gs, J. E. Davy, Tathwell ; Tealby Bright Eyes, 3lgs, Wildsmith, Harm ston ; Tealby Sailor Boy, 27gs, A. and B. Hall. ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1905
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A NEW BY-LAW. By “ Crow Quill.”’

... 60z., Meeriogy| can tetort that it is better to be an|Cawkwell, Mrs. Frant Blackshaw, and Hh“hhflmhmgm water: Trowi, Ib. April ‘fool than one who all the year round | Meesrs. J. Vincent, Hayes, and W. Mawean. rednt a o, standard & weig ® (g tions, and private ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 749 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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Published: Monday 01 May 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 573 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

riday’ April 2 1926 THE OUTLOOK recess TAVERN TITLES Among the interesting examples of American slang the ..

... well-meaning attempts of the BBC to be humorous should so persistently recoil upon the head of the humorist This- morning’s April fool ’’ joke seems to have upset a lot of listeners and their comments on the performance have lacked nothing in punch” The truth ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1926
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3226 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DAILY RECORD AND MAIL RIDAY APRIL 1938 the DOESN’T LIKE POLICE METHODS INA side By INDIA It's Quicker by Rail

... rance there was once a remarkable instance in which a person of high standing saved his life through being mistaken for an April fool — and living up ’’ to that ITe was rancis Duke of Lorraine and he and his wife who were being held captive at the time managed ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1938
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1637 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

1933 21 Chum Club Cornet The Thistle meets the Rose EXPENSE O DUCTS to Chum THE BALANCING EGG KNOTTY PROBLEM

... for it in Scotland a gowk ” being a cuckoo though rhe reason for the allusion have never been able to discover In rance an April fool is called a poisson d’Avril (April fish) the reason probably being that young Spring fish are easily caught Are voul Better ...

Published: Friday 31 March 1933
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2625 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Two Daily Record Young olks’ ree Supplement Saturday March 31 1934 COMPETITIONS AND JOLLY UN OR ALL CHUM U M

... so should you be caught in an unguarded moment and proclaimed a Gowk’’ don’t say that failed to warn you! Happily this April fooling is of an innocent and harmless variety and beyond temporarily ruffling one’s dignity it causes no serious harm Therefore ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1934
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2860 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Smith met hie friend Brown in the street the other nignt. “Halloa, old fellow!” he exclaimed; “how are you getting

... i licked him tho. The indians aleo skalped fokes which they caught but if thay tried to skalp grandmar she wnd tell them April fool beekaus she wares a . Leader of the Opposition and other membeis of his Party, who were under the impression that Sir Frederick ...

Published: Saturday 25 March 1905
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3137 | Page: 7 | Tags: none