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EBOOK PUNCH JUNE 25, 1919 ***
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PUNCH,
OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
VOL. 156.
June 25, 1919.
CHARIVARIA.
A man has written to the papers offering to buy five thousand pounds of
Joy Loan if the Government will get him a case of whisky. The simple
fellow does not seem to realise that if the Government had anything as
valuable as a case of whisky it would not have to raise a loan.
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The successful trans-Atlantic flight and the large number of
public-houses in Galway threaten to make prohibition in U.S.A. nothing
less than a farce.
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Smoking, says a Church paper, is on the increase among boys. Boys will
be girls these days.
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Smoking and bad language seem to go together, says Professor GILBERT
MURRAY. In the case of some cheap cigars we have often seen them going
together.
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A bazaar has been held in Dublin for the purpose of securing a fresh
stock of wild animals for the Zoological Gardens.
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