Newspaper Advert Misprints & Misquotes - 11

Lovely bedroom, twin beds, bow window, hot and cold basin, single or double, excellent food; also young lady. - Advert. in Edinburgh Evening News

The parents of the bride include mahogany reproductions, colonial style, for the living- and dining-rooms. - Boston Herald

It is a curious sight when the gardens are in bloom to watch dozens of artists squatting on their easels. - Australian paper

Take some eating pears, peel them, and cook them slowly standing in water flavoured with one vanilla pod. - Daily paper

Mike McGrew, deputy U.S. marshal in Oklahoma City has carried his son's first baby as a good luck charm for thirteen years. He has had it hanging on the rear-view mirror of four automobiles and, during the war, kept it in the socks of his Army uniform. - New Jersey paper

If You Don't Say Mrs Globus' CHOCOLATE PUDDING Is the Finest You Ever Tasted - Tear Up the Cashier and Walk Out. - Menu of a Baltimore restaurant

If God meant us to fly - he'd buy the tickets

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