US Edition1873, OR folklore: Earliest known version of the “sitkum dolla” joke?
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1873, OR folklore: Earliest known version of the “sitkum dolla” joke?
I think we may have just antedated the classic Pacific NW “sitkum dollar” joke by 24 years! It’s a crime to explain a jest…which I’ll do after you get a chance to read this & see if it makes you laugh: A friend tells us a good story on Capt. Whyte, of the Forward. While at Astoria a clootchman stepped up to him and presenting to his notice a basket full of crabs, offered to sell the lot for sitkum dolla — half dollar. The Captain planked down a …
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