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The Old Home Town
(April Fool's Day - 1923)
"After more than twenty people passed an old pocket book on Main Street, yesterday, thinking it was an April Fool joke, along came Joel Hancock from Hootstown and picked it up — it contained three one dollar bills."
April Fool's Day Cartoons
Mistaken for April Fools
April Fool's Day, 1923
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The Hoaxing Hitchhiker, 1941
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The Great Wall of China Hoax, 1899
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