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Thread #158333   Message #3743740
Posted By: Jack Campin
13-Oct-15 - 08:44 PM
Thread Name: Wife selling - songs, poems etc
Subject: RE: Wife selling - songs, poems etc
I have a scan of a snippet from a newspaper dated October 1, 1921, and bylined from Chicago, about one Joseph Lakazek:

For thirty-five years he was happy with his concertina, but two weeks ago, in an evil moment, he traded it for a wife

and the bit of the story I haven't got scanned says he already regretted the swap and wanted his concertina back.