An American editor was one day confronted by a gentleman, who exclaimed, 'In your paper you report that I am dead!' 'You may rely,' said the editor, 'on the truth of everything you read in our journal.' But his visitor was not comforted by this assurance, and asked that a contradiction should be published in the next issue. Tp this the editor finally declined to assent; but, being pressed to
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIV, Issue 6582, 3 November 1939, Page 2
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