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Star-Gazette, Elmira, New York, November 2, 1954
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Star-Gazette, Elmira, New York, November 2, 1954
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Santa Cruz Sentinel, California, October 20, 1932
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Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, England, 30 April 30, 1881
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Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Iowa, September 19, 1953
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Southern Illinoisan,
Carbondale, Illinois, October 27, 1949
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Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September 1911
“This is no place and no hour for practical jokes.”
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 27, 1910
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 2, 1910
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The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, November 4, 1934
MIT engineering students prank (the roof of the car reads TECH 2 HELL), Cambridge, 1936
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Flour bomb, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1934
From the back of photo: ‘Heinrich’ (sic) Sommer’s room after a 5 lb. sack of flour was blown up in the center with a device of Sommer’s invention. At the MIT Dorms, Summer of 1934.
Toilet paper prank, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1934
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Pennsylvania, July 29, 1898
…debarred from making a political speech at the People’s Theatre last Friday night by reason of the fact that some miscreants had spread red pepper on the floor, thereby setting the audience to coughing and sneezing…
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A new bridegroom sneaks out of church with the wrong lady, Faribault, Minnesota, 1951