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... April Fool ! April Fool ! I Walter Yates Kent April Fool to all subscribers good both in letters oud telegrams. See topics agents. Not loser sent telegrams. Liverpool special and invincible wires, 10.*. the meeting.—Address, Walter Yates, Post-othce, ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1886
Newspaper: The Sportsman
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NO APRIL FOOL

... NO APRIL FOOL PRIL is a frustrating time for cooks. Even though the weather is cheering ...

Published: Thursday 19 April 2001
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 16 | Page: 118 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! Sunday. April Ist, better known as April Fool's Day, was. as usual. a day of pranks and Jokes. But the members of the Drogheda Brass and Reed Band are still wondering if the joke played on them was really funny. It appears that each member ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1951
Newspaper: Drogheda Independent
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 6 | 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 jokes were played upon small boys. One that re-appeared every year consisted of sending * k° y bookshop to buy “The Life and Adventures of Eve’s Mother ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1934
Newspaper: Falkirk Herald
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! Sir, —Mr. Devin ha« made Aprd fools the tramwaymen, and no mistake! obtains them 6s. a week increase, and the ...

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. Hz had bought a new pocket-book. Who he was is not of any importance, and as nobody will attempt to parse this story, it is excusable, perhaps, to begin it as I do. He bad bought a new pocket-book, and haring put his money into it, bad ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1881
Newspaper: Abergavenny Chronicle
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1298 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. IT was Teeter 's idea really, but we were all of us in the joke. Let's make old Softleigh an April Fool, he had said. The fellows in the club crowded round him. Good idea, said I ; but how's it to be done? -I'll tell you, said Teeter ...

Published: Saturday 06 April 1895
Newspaper: Ally Sloper's Half Holiday
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1456 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

APRIL FooL

... APRIL FooL. The April fish, the poisaonsd'Avril, is the ' l French term for what we call an April fool. The custom of sending people on fool's errands on April Ist is probably due to the change of the calendar in France in 1564; but there • Hindu ...

Published: Friday 08 July 1910
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL&

... APRIL FOOL& VLSIOrs amounts are gimes of tho mitt Be custom of fool Risking cm the Ist el • hat all are mom es has eenjialseali. Thee doss not seem mock to tin minion it is a relic of the festivities sad lea alai ashiserd an came to a dimes as the time ...

April Fool

... April Fool PINCH, pinch. It was, after all, April Fool’s Day. I hope the article headlined Red Alert was an April Fool’s Day teaser although the comment “Congestion is a major headache in the streets of Edinburgh” is very true and is a matter that mustrze ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1994
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. It was the pier it happened; I was slrclling all aJonc. Wond’nng how folks made their fortunes, wond'ring how make own. When this little kid approached me, and, quite serious, says met* What's that coming in the bar. Bill?’ ami lie pointed ...

Published: Saturday 15 April 1922
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 202 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! The origin of All Fools’ Day has been hotly disputed by antiquarians without any definite conclusion being reached beyond = conviction that the custom of April fooling hailed from France, where an April *fool” is called a “fish.” The folly ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1929
Newspaper: South Bank Express
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 7 | Tags: none