[Ads-l] shaggy dog story, 1918

[Jonathan Lighter]

I posted the same cite a few years ago.

JL

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:37 AM Stephen Goranson <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:

> The South Bend News-Times, Sept. 22, 1918 p. 8 col. a, in a theater review:
>
> The next scene reveals the superior court at Reno, which isn't so darn
> superior, as the fellow said about the shaggy dog. (Note--shaggy dog story
> will be mailed on application to editor.)
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> Stephen Goranson
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> https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87055779/1918-09-22/ed-1/seq-18/#date1=1789&sort=date&date2=1963&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=0&words=dog+Shaggy+story&proxdistance=5&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=shaggy+dog+story&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
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