The April Fool Archive

Calling the Roll - Fifty-Seven Thousand Varieties    (April Fool's Day - 1905)

Editorial cartoon in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. The fools in line are all wearing scarves that identify what kind of fool they are, such as "Get rich quick investor," "Member of Cassie Chadwick school of bankers," "Gold brick buyer," "Dupe of oriental fakirs," "Scientist who thinks he can create life," etc.


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