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Punning in 1873.
October 25, 2008 by TimHughes 
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Just noticed a small entry in a Silver City, Idaho Territory newspaper from 1873 reading:
“A piece of glass an inch long was taken from the head of a Rochester man recently, in whose skull it had been imbedded for twenty years. He had complained ocasionally of a pane in his head.”
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Tagged: grammer, idaho, puns, silver city
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