TUESDAY (1373) Leopold, archduke of Austria, named his son Rupert for the benefit of modern novelists.
WEDNESDAY (1340) Cannon first used in England.
(1906) Roosevelt uses Cannon in the House of Representatives.
Editor Foolish Almanack:-- What ails my hens? Every morning I find two or three lying on their backs, toes curled up, never to rise again.
Health Hint:--If you have a "broken bone" try to save the change.
Over fifty illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith.
More than one hundred thousand copies of "_The Foolish Dictionary_" have been sold, and throughout the country its seven hundred witty definitions are quoted in every walk of life.
It is a book for everybody who loves fun in words--in fact it's
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A mirthful book on all branches of finance, familiarizing the uninitiated with the funny side of losing money, while making Wall Street see the joke on themselves.
"The Author aims his witty shafts at the monopolists, railroads, banks, mines, insurance companies, and on every page there is something to provoke a smile."--_Boston Herald_
Over fifty characteristically funny illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith.
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written by that Brilliant Coterie so Giddy-on-Words, whose contributions to "The Foolish Dictionary," "Foolish Finance" and "The Foolish Almanac" have made those books nationally notable, here appearing under the pseudonym of
Over 100 Characteristic Illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith whose humorous sketches are such an important feature of _The Foolish Series_.
"Even more entertaining, we think, than either of its predecessors."--_Boston Advertiser_, June 25, 1906.
"Wit and cleverness."--_N.Y. Tribune_, June 30, 1906.
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