A BRIEF BOOTMAKERS
. If was Thackeray,, who, when visiting Deland,, misunderstood the - letters ~,, v. to.mean "God Preserve O’Connell. But even in this Age of Letters, when newspaper readers. hto accustomed to decipher abbreviated forms in' news and advertisement columns, mistakes are easily made. - 1 A notice on a' certain suburban street door in London, for example, always excites interest. It runs: “J.X., 8.5. M.” Some rare., University degreesp No; merely an intimation that the occupant was a boot and shoe mender.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 19
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81A BRIEF BOOTMAKERS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12394, 13 March 1926, Page 19
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