Early Twentieth Century Snark

March 11, 1911

Generation X may have the modern market cornered on irony, but I’m tracking at least two levels of sarcasm in this exchange from the March 11, 1911 edition of The Chatham Record. Here’s how the pros did it a hundred years ago.

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