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Selecting Mourning Goods For A Mother-in-law

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
May
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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As lie sauntered into a dry goods emporium he had a sad look on tris countenance. a look that filled all hearts wiih pity, for one could see some terrible affliction had been visitcd npon his famüy. He"walked up to one of the clerks, and said: "Show me somo goods suitabie to dress a dead lady in. Quickly the clerk threw down some handsome white satins, cashmeres, and sil ka. "All most too high," he continued. "Have vou nothing that has been a little damaged ; a pieoe of goods that is sorter rotten. We could put the bid part in the back, you know, and nobody'd see it," and the clerk saw a mother-in-law's dead look in his sorrowful eyes. Taking in the situation at onco, he led the bereaved man to the rear and sold him fiLeen yards of moth-eaten eashmere, that had been on hand eight vears.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat