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From: "RevDrBobBarnes" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] A Little Humor and genealogy
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:42:54 -0400
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I lived in Bar Harbor Me for some time and sometime read the Ellsworth
American just because I had nothing else to do or to look out for some yard
sale or the likes.. Thanks for bit of humor. Mainers have a keen sense of
humor. Dr. Bob!
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Subject: [RHEA] A Little Humor and genealogy


> The following notice was found in the "Ellsworth American" newspaper,
> of Ellsworth, Maine from the year 1891. The newspaper is still
> publishing each week, about 150 years so far. A great sense of humor is
> evident, but no author is listed.
>
> Whereas our not so hotsy-totsy sister, Susannah Persis Fluetta Wussener,
> has seen fit to depart this life, having done so by running headlong
> into a hurricane off Killdeer Point without benefit of oars in her skiff
> (never having had both oars in the water during her earthly life),
> therefore, be it resolved that we, the happy as clams members of this
> circle, do solemnly swear that we will henceforth enjoy being able to
> promote at least one idea per meeting without having to listen to
> twenty-five minutes of her opposing guff, resolved that we will deck the
> halls with boughs of holly for the next 12 years in her memory and
> resolved that the surviving members of her jubilant family will receive
> a hearty handshake when meeting anywhere on the street and, time
> permitting, will be dragged off to the nearest bar for a healthy snort,
> courtesy of the su-per-flu-wus Memorial Trust.
>
>
>
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