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English: Advertisement for the comic strip Absent-Minded Abner by Walt McDougall.

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Every day in the Chester Times, Absent-minded Abner, A New, Screamingly Funny, Comic Strip by Walt McDougall. Every day good old Abner will get into another scrape. Each scrape will be more amusing than the proceeding one. Watch out for this comic. It will give you a good healthy laugh every day. Tell your friends about Absent-minded Abner. They will thank you and laugh with you. Now running daily in the Chester Times. Absent-minded Abner. The Funniest Comic That Has Appeared in Years.

Walt McDougall
The Dean of American comic artists. For Many years cartoonist on the New York World and later on the Philadelphia North American. Creator of the famous Sunday page, "Hank and His Animal Friends".

"Absent-minded Abner"

Walt McDougall's latest and funniest creation. Abner will make you laugh at him every day and love him all the time.
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Source Chester Times, (Chester, Pennsylvania) December 4, 1915 http://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/pennsylvania/chester/chester-times/1915/12-04/page-10
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Walt McDougall  (1858–1938)  wikidata:Q3565651 s:en:Author:Walter Hugh McDougall
 
Walt McDougall
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Walter Hugh McDougall; Walter McDougall; Walter H. McDougall
Description American cartoonist and children's writer
Date of birth/death 10 February 1858 Edit this at Wikidata 6 March 1938 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Newark Waterford
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