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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156.

JANUARY 15, 1919.

CHARIVARIA.

A memorial to SIMON DE MONTFORT has been unveiled at Evesham, where he
fell in 1265. A pathetic inquiry reaches us as to whether SIMON is yet
demobilised.

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We are informed that the project of adding a "Silence Room" to the
National Liberal Club is to be resuscitated.

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"Small one piece houses of concrete," says _The National News_, "are
now quite common in America." The only complaint, it appears, is that
some of them are just a trifle tight under the arms.

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We hope that the proposed revival by a well-known theatre manager of
_The Sins of David_ so shortly after the General Election is not the
work of a defeated Candidate.

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"Some of the discredited Radical organs," says a contemporary, "are
already toying with Bolshevism." A case of "_Soviet qui peut_."

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The report that a number of distinguished Irish Unionists have been
ordered to choose between the LORD-LIEUTENANT's Reconstruction
Committee and the O.B.E. is causing anxiety in Dublin Club circles.

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Weymouth Council has decided to change the name of Holstein Avenue. We
deprecate these attempts to force the Peace Conference's hand.

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Mr. HENRY FORD's new paper is called _The Dearborn Indepe