TO UNDERTAKERS. The following advertisement appeared in a paper of a small town in Colorado: For Sale. —An old-established, wellpaying undertaker’s establishment. The city is in a very unhealthy location, where the mortality is very great. There is only one doctor in the whole town. The deaths from fever alone pay the expenses, and the rest is clear profit. There is no competition. AM UNFAIMiVG TEST. One-armed tramp at kitchen door: Please, sir, could you assist a poor man? I was a railway porter, and lost my arm on the lire Man of the House: Just come in and shut the door behind you. Tramp obeys. Man of the House: New, you get out again. Von ain’t no railway porter. If you had been you would have shut the door with a hang that would have broken half the dishes on the kitchen shelves.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2161, 17 August 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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144Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2161, 17 August 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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