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Contagions Yawning

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Two young men boarded an Oldtown trolley car one afternoon this week to settle a very peculiar wager, the one baving bet the other a ?5 silver certiflcate that he would make six people out of ten yawn any where without saying a word. A well-fllled car was selected for the purpose. The young man who had proposed the wager had not taken his seat many minutes when he opened his mouth and gave a fearful yawn. He speedily followed it by another, and then awaited results. A moment later a middle-aged lady pi-omptly put her hand up to her mouth to smother a cavernous yawn. Almoat everybody In the car after that seemed in a desperate hurry to follow the lady's lead. Out of the nineteen people in the car there were fourteen

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register