Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — Sam Caught On. [ARTICLE]

Sam Caught On.

Soon after the girls of a family residing in one of Philadelphia’s suburbs had been installed in a fashionable seminary near that town, their napies had been transformed In accordance with the practice obtaining at the seminary. Mabel become Maybelle; May, Maeme; and soon Jessie caught the infection. She wrote a letter to her elder brother Sam, and signed It “Jessica." Sam detected the signs of the times and this was his reply: Dear Sister Jessica: Your letter received. Aunt Marica and uncle started for Bostonica yesterday. Mamaica and Papaica are well. i I bought a new bull terrier yesterday. She is a beauty; her name is Maudica. Your affectionate brother,

Samica.