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Singular Signs

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Of unwittingly ludicrcras or humorous signs there are plenty. A tinsmith near Exeter, England, has a sign which reads, "Quart measures of all shapes and sizes sold here. " At amarket town in Eutlandshire the following plaoard was afflxed to the shntters of a watchmaker who had decamped, leaving nis creditors mourning, "Wound up and the mainspring broke. " Equally appoeite was one in Thomaston, Ga. On one of the principal streets the same room was occupied by a physician and a shoemaker, the disciple of Galen in front while he of St. Crispin's trade worked in the rear. Over the door hung the sign, "We repair both sole and body." On the windows of a London coffee room there appeared the notice, "This coffee room removed npstairs til! repaired. " The proprietor of the place was not an Irishman, though theframer of the notice over the entrance to a Frenen bnrying ground, "Only thedead who live in this parish are buried here, " must have been.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News