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THE APRIL FOOL

... THE APRIL FOOL. The limt of April mynchronises with the first symptoms of moiling spring. Life assumes the garb of hope, vegetation is active, and the romance of sentiment which sweetens the prosaic affairs of the world in strengthened by the geniality ...

Published: Tuesday 01 April 1913
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

April Fool?

... April Fool? This is first day of April© Hunt tho gowk another mil©.’* But as wc write the public has no heart for these little jokes. They are, no doubt, good upon occasion. To hunt the gowk another mile, send the youngest of the family for a pennyworth ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1929
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. At the door the boy wu standing, Just as I going out. Well, my lad?' I says, and asked him What business was about. 'Twits • t4cout, and looked so guileless, Flaxen hair and eyes o' blue, And hu smiled, and then 110 answered, I've • letter ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1918
Newspaper: Belfast Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 500 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE APRIL FOOL

... THE APRIL FOOL. The first of April synchronises frith the first symptoms of smiling spring. Life assumes the garb of hope, vegetation is active, and the romance of sentiment which swoetens the prosaic affairs of the world is strengthened by the geniality ...

Published: Wednesday 02 April 1913
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL!

... APRIL FOOL! (1141 April Fool's Day In 1904 I ‘-x was wheeling my baby along fool if when I'm but you sure are a ye take me for o'ne. Cliftonville Road. when I heard plonk-plonk as a baker's cart But his face was a picture when he turned and saw the ...

Published: Saturday 31 March 1956
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. Delightful weather favoured the Mid- Antrim Hunt reunion on Saturday at Oalgorm and attracted an extraoVdinarily big holiday attendance, including the Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady,’' and every minute of the afternoon seemed to greatly ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1934
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL. On the lit of huit month an anteing April joke way played in New York. A hpotdu.l of the Rettorder writeai—Tbe wife of a downtown busbyeey man received tele. on Weineedny, the lot Your in bank is overdrawn. A. P. Rilfirst. She went ...

Published: Saturday 23 May 1896
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 363 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL-

... APRIL FOOL- How April fool came to no one really knows. But the best guess is that which credits the clay to France, which took the lead over all Christendom in commencin the new rear on January 1 instead of March 25. Before the change was made the ...

Published: Monday 04 April 1921
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL. Tax spirit of practical joking appears to be still rife in the West End, and there are very good grounds for thinking that tbe Haymarket hoax and the other trifling ebullitions of animal spirits are the work of one hand. It is whispered ...

Published: Friday 04 April 1884
Newspaper: Ulster Echo
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 282 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AN APRIL FOOL

... AN APRIL FOOL Bella Makes A Date CATHAL O'BYRNE time; nat sine wee Alec was born. Oh, yis, she's a very good nurse. It's an awful pity, isn't it? It is, indeed, but ivirywan hes their faults. She's quaren busy, A bleere, this Spring. So A ...

Published: Saturday 24 April 1937
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

APRIL FOOL

... APRIL FOOL West Country trainer Ron Hodges faces a stiff fine after leaving all his horses in by mistake at the overnight stage. Hodges was caught out by the April 1 switch to a 10am cancellation deadline. He said: I forgot about the chanie. and missed ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1988
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 21 | Tags: none