Rita's Entry: Saturday, April 1, 1911
April Fool - stung Fran on snow. Fooled Mrs. S. with spilled ink. Fran went to Maggie Pepper. Whole day culminated in grand fooling of Mr. S. with aforesaid ink. "Come in here but - hold your temper." O dear. Went shopping.
IN RITA'S DAY: April Fool's Day was taken seriously. I learned that disappearing ink was invented by a man named Wellcome around 1869 so I am assuming that it could be purchased in 1911 to use for a prank. But I could be wrong and the April Fool's joke Rita pulled was done in a different way. One famous prank that is repeated online occurred on April 1, 1915 when a French pilot, during WWI, dropped a bomb on a group of Germans. The bomb turned out to be a football with a note attached saying "April Fool's." I don't know if I believe this. Was the note in French? German? Of course, the football did sort of look like a bomb (see below).
TODAY: The Internet is a great source of April Fool's jokes... YouTube today did a salute to 1911, in celebration of their 100th year online. The Army announced that their official hat would be the Stetson. And IKEA introduced their new high chairs for dogs (see below).
Judy's Entry: Friday, April 1, 2011
It snowed today! What a prank Mother Nature played on us. The snow didn't stick, but the day was cold and dark. Didn't pull any jokes today. Just did the regular things. Did more work on illustrations for our children's book. This is going to be a BIG job. MJ was cancelled because Barbara's father is not well. Hope things improve for him.
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