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A FISHY YARN
[People's Press, 19 April 1910]
The Buffalo Enquirer has a funny yarn-at least it is meant to be funny-all about a man who called himself Wm. Deckwith of Welland, who went to Buffalo last Friday to celebrate his 60th birthday, took too much booze and got pinched at midnight. The bobby says Deckwith (if that is his name) was enquiring for the “Welland Hotel.” The report further says that Deckwith said he had lived the most of his sixty years in the “village” of Welland. It is possible the man may be a transient resident of Welland, but enquiry fails to find any trace of him, and the statement that he has lived here for the most of 60 years is undoubtedly fiction. No resident of Welland speaks of the place as a village, nor of the “Welland Hotel.” If a Canadian but winks or stubs his toe in Buffalo it is good for a half-column song and dance in one of the city papers.
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