"If you don't go to other people's funerals..." (1911, not from Yogi Berra)

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I keep thinking of this quote. How did it become attached to Yogi? Does  Fred
have it?
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16 February 1911, Oakland (CA) Tribune, pg. ?:
Visitor--I've just come from the doctor's funeral, but I didn't see any of
you there.
HOSTESS--No--my husband didn't care to go, as funerals always upset  him.
Visitor--Oh, well, if you never go to other people's funerals I don't see
how you can expect them to come to yours.
--Punch.
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27 March 1962, Oakland (CA) Tribune, pg. 25:
As Clarence Day's mother said in that classic line in "Life With Father,"
"If you don't attend other people's funerals, you can't expect them to come to
yours!"

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