Point To This Needle's Joke

1916

Woman From Timber Country Finds It, Too.

WINSTED, Connecticut — Entering a Winsted store on which appeared the word "Needles," a woman from the city who is passing her first summer here. asked for a package of needles.

"We don't keep any small wares," said the man behind the counter.

"Then why do you say 'needles' on the window?" retorted the stranger.

"That's my name," ejaculated Solomon Needles, proprietor of the store.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 7.