CLASSIFIED ERRORS, from a small-town daily: (Monday) FORE SALE - R.
D.
Jones has one sewing machine for sale.
Phone 555-0707 after 7 p.m.
and ask for Mrs.
Kelly who lives with him cheap.
(Tuesday) NOTICE - We regret having erred in R.
D.
Jone's ad yesterday.
It should have read: One sewing machine for sale.
Cheap: 555-0707 and ask for Mrs.
Kelly who lives with him after 7 p.m.
(Wednesday) NOTICE - R.
D.
Jones has informed us that he has received several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in his classified ad yesterday.
His ad stands corrected as follows: FOR SALE - R.
D.
Jones has one sewing machine for sale.
Cheap.
Phone 555-0707 and ask Mrs.
Kelly who loves with him.
(Thursday) NOTICE - I, R.
D.
Jones, have NO sewing machine for sale.
I SMASHED IT.
Don't call 555-0707, as the telephone has been disconnected.
I have NOT been carrying on with Mrs.
Kelly.
Until yesterday she was my housekeeper, but she quit."
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