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A reason to drink?
December 31, 2011 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
This front page item from the “Prescott Journal-Miner” of Arizona, October 29, 1929, is self-explanatory. Perhaps some can commiserate. There’s a New Year’s resolution here somewhere…
Filed under: The 20th & 21st Centuries, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: Arizona, humor, New Years, nursery rhymes