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"Boy Crying (1920)" is all the caption card has to say about this enigmatic scene. Cheer up, Bub. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
Boy on the first day back to school after summer vacation?
... someone dumped a bag of powdered sugar on him.
Those aren't smudges in the picture around his shirt; it's smoke. He's seconds away from spontaneous human combustion.
"How do I get to the Susquehanna Hat Company?"
The 1919 World Series was fixed.
there would be no jello for dessert either!
Are you sure he's crying? Maybe he's laughing really hard and the tears are running down his cheeks because he just watched someone slip on a banana peel or something...
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