When Mark Twain in his younger clays, was editor of a Missouri paper, a superstitious subscriber wrote to him ‘saying that he had found a spider in his paper, and enquiring if it was a sign of good or bad luck? The next issue of the paper contained the following reply: To old subscriber: Finding a spider in our paper was neither good or bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over the paper to see which merchant was not advertising, so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door and live a life of undisturbed peace.
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Shannon News, 17 November 1925, Page 2
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104Untitled Shannon News, 17 November 1925, Page 2
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