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July 22, 1904
The Cairo Bulletin
Cairo, Alexander County County, Illinois
What is this article about?
English illustrators Lance Thackeray and Tom Browne dine with Richard Canfield in New York, who shares a humorous letter from his miner friend in Anaconda correcting errors in a newspaper's obituary mistakenly published about him.
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CORRECTS HIS OWN OBITUARY.
Wyoming Miner Gives an Example of American Humor.
Lance Thackeray and Tom Browne, the English Illustrators, dined last month with Richard Canfield in New York.
The young men said that they were anxious to obtain specimens of characteristic Yankee humor, as they hoped to write a funny book about America on their return home.
"Well," said Mr. Canfield, "the only item I can give you for your book is a letter that a friend of mine in Anaconda wrote to a newspaper. Anaconda is a Western town, and my friend is a miner there. His letter contradicted an obituary about himself that the newspaper had printed. It ran like this:
'Sir-I desire to call your attention to a few errors in your obituary of myself of Wednesday last. I was born in Washington, not in Wheeling, and my retirement from the flour and feed business in '96 was not due to ill-health, but to hard times. The cause of my death was not pneumonia.'"
Wyoming Miner Gives an Example of American Humor.
Lance Thackeray and Tom Browne, the English Illustrators, dined last month with Richard Canfield in New York.
The young men said that they were anxious to obtain specimens of characteristic Yankee humor, as they hoped to write a funny book about America on their return home.
"Well," said Mr. Canfield, "the only item I can give you for your book is a letter that a friend of mine in Anaconda wrote to a newspaper. Anaconda is a Western town, and my friend is a miner there. His letter contradicted an obituary about himself that the newspaper had printed. It ran like this:
'Sir-I desire to call your attention to a few errors in your obituary of myself of Wednesday last. I was born in Washington, not in Wheeling, and my retirement from the flour and feed business in '96 was not due to ill-health, but to hard times. The cause of my death was not pneumonia.'"
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Deception
What keywords are associated?
Obituary Correction
American Humor
Miner Letter
Yankee Wit
Newspaper Error
What entities or persons were involved?
Lance Thackeray
Tom Browne
Richard Canfield
Unnamed Miner
Where did it happen?
Anaconda, New York
Story Details
Key Persons
Lance Thackeray
Tom Browne
Richard Canfield
Unnamed Miner
Location
Anaconda, New York
Event Date
Last Month
Story Details
English illustrators seek Yankee humor examples from Richard Canfield, who shares a miner's letter correcting factual errors in his own prematurely published obituary, humorously noting he is not dead.