Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 November 1890 — Page 4

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ORGANIZE PROTECTION CLUBS. THE JOURNAL mcst heartily joins in

the suggestion of a host of Republican papers that Protection and MoKinley clubs be forthwith organized in every township in the State, where practicable, for the purpose of disoussing the principles of Protection and the various features of the McKinley bill. The subject ofProtection is one which a great many of our learned men take a pride in being intensely ignorant. If every man in the country was thoroughly informed as to the benefits of Protection, ohere would not be a dozen tree traders in the Union outside of those who are free traders through selfishness. Of coure these are men who will iusist on a policy under which they insist they can buy a coat for a reduced price, though the policy should beggar every man and woman in the oountry who live by making coats. This class of men can never seo the benefits of Protection because they can seo nothing that is not immediately beneficial to themselves. Such men will never be anything but free traders. But the patriotic people of the country, wi are willing that others may have a chance to live as themselves, and who have some regard for the welfare of the community, as well as their own welfaro, will hesitate long before trading *he prosperity of their country for a cheap English coat. The man who votes for free trade solely because he can save two per cent, on the price of a two cent tin cup, is not the material out of which a true American patriot can ever be made. Even the ragamuffin will not sell his vote for less than a dollur, but this man sells his for less than one tenth of a cent. Yes, we say stand by McKinley and the policy of Protection, and let the work of educating the people commence now and go on till the first Tuesday in November, 1892, and arousing Republican majority on that day will assure us against a repeal of the MoKinley bill, and the schemes of those who would dostroy the industries of this oountry in the interest of British monopolists.

AMONG.the many candidates for Speaker of the House of Representatives for the Fifty-Second (Jongress, none seem to start out with more flattering prospeots than Hon. Wm, M. Springer, of Illinois. At the Thurman banquet, the other day, Mr. Springer was addressed by the distinguished guests present, as "Mi1. Speaker." This was a very graceful recognition of the probable honor that awaits the distinguished Congressman from the 13th Illinois district. Mr. Springer is now serving his six teenth oonsecutive year in Congress from the Springfield, Illinois, district, and was relected on the 5th inst. by about 5,000 muj jrity. There is probably no congressional district in the United States that has been represented in the Lower House of Congress, by as many notably distinguished men, as the one that Mr. Springer now represents, among whom were Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, John T« Stewart, John C. Robinson and Shelby M. Cullom. Mr. Springer is an able lawyer, a fine scholar,a genial, wholesouled Christian gentleman, with hosts of friends in both of the leading political parties. His long service in Congress, eminent abilities as a public officer, together with the fact that he is recognized as the peer of any man in Congress as a parliamentarian, indicate that it would be wisdom on the part of the Democracy to elevate him to the position of Speaker of the next House of Representatives of tlio National Capitol. THE JOURNAL has these good wordu to say in behalf of Mr. Springer as a Republican newspaper, and in the interest of a gentleman and not a "bully," even though tho latter may hail from Indiana.

THE New York importers of foreign goods are getting into a "pickle," and nobody will sympathize with them. They borrowed all the money they could to buy foreign goods in a^t'iipation of a raise in prices when the McKinley bill should bocome a law, and now, to their amazement, they cannot sell the goods at what they gave lor them, and their creditors are beginning to clamor for their pay. If they had read the history of the country they need not have been deceived. No tariff ever increased prices, and they should have known it. In 1828 the same thing was done with the same result.

THE Illinois Central railroad lias jus bought 5,316 pounds of steel tires at 2i cents a pound. The McKinley duty on steel tires is 21 cents a pound. How ist the tariff a tax in this instance, and li'jw does it add just its amount to the price of the goods?

TIIE Baltimore Tinplate Company, incorporated in Illinois, lias purchased 1,000 acres of land at Purls: Ridge, 111., and will erect a large factory for the making of tiu plates »nd tin utensils.

Pr.oi". JOHN M. (JOULTEK led the Republican State ticket nearly 2,000 votes for Geologist.

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4.nd the Tragic Death Accompanying It. A tenant iioute on the farm of Wm. Strain, one mile east of Bowers Station, and occupied by Harrison Sprager was consumed by fire Wednesday evening. A few of their household goods were saved. Among tho many neighbors who came to their assistance was a young man by the name of Elmer Cook, who worked hard and beeame somewhat excited and after all was doBe that could be in saving tho goods, was standing talking when he was seen to fall, and before any astistance could be rendered was dead.

A Business Womans' Enterprise. Mrs. Samantha West Miller, formerly of New Ross, in this county, but for several years a resident of Indianapolis,has boueht tho Cabir,et-maker, a trade journal dovoted to interests Indicated in its title, and will hereafter be editor and sole proprietor. Tho (hut issue of the paper on the now footing will be on Dec 20. Mrs. Miller has had considerable newspaper experience, and is a lady of business force and tact, and will doubtless make the Cabinet-maker a success.

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tit loved his wife, and' love aud malice cannot dwell under the sume root, 'l'lie second theory unaccounted for is secrecy tho budge of crime, and not single element of proof is here to tho effect that Pettit ever adopted concealment to do this hellish thing. Falsehood is the third thiny. When men murder, they begin to lie, and net oue lalaehoo oau the State oi Indiana lay at Pettit's door through all tills trying time. Oomiug to the case we find by all the proof that Mrs. Pettit's health .vas poor upon her arrival from South Bend, Saturday night Mrs. Pettit was very siok, and Pettit on this account hastened from Now town. The prosecutor tells us that Pettit had left poison in the capsules expecting her to take thom aud bo dead when he returned, hence his uuoasiuess.

Tnis he tells us but there is no proof or it, it is a mere idle surmise, a falsehood to throw an inference ol guilt. If he left the capsules of quiniue, or raiher poison there, ho left th.-m wiiere little lme could get them too, aud hence has her murder in his heart, l'ii-jy tell us that Pettit changed pulpits with Dunlavy so that lie could bo away iroin home when tho poison was taken, but Dunlavy telis us that ho suggested this himseli. They torture into a circumstance of guilt that Pettit returned that day without filling his afternoon appointment. It was manly, aud you know that had he staid away when his wife was sick they would have charged it against him. But he comes home and no dinner has been prepared when Dunlavy goes over Point is getting tome for his wife. Among other things a cup of tea was given which doos not taste right and twenty minutes later she is in convulsions. Now it is in evidence from many witnesses that the Pettits were extremely careless about the use of poison, and dogs, cats and chickens had fallen viotims to this carelessness. Hence it is not wonderful that persons should likewise fall victims. Tho doctor was called at once. Is it reasonable to suppose that Pettit would have sent for tho doctor, above all the family doctor, if he had given the poison? The first person arriving found Pettit giving her mustard water, ttie best possible remedy. Is this reasonable? No sir, murderers don't act that way. Malice, secrecy, or falsehood all are absent. Sunday was the only time that Mrs. Pettit spoke of poison, of the bitter taste or feared death. Her health was improved on Monday aud on Tuesday worse again. S'mply because Mrs. Whitehead was in tne kitchen that morning they charged that she put strychnine in the soup. They were driven from this, however, and finally charged that Pettit gave the poison in a capsule shortly after. They claim this from the testimony of Lettie Hawthorn.. Mrs. Whitehead's sister. She tells us that when she got there Mrs. Pettit had just had breakfast and was getting worse, her body was stiff and cold, She also said upon her first examination tuat Pettit gave a capsule some time during that day, when she could not say. Later she comes and says it was between 7 and 8. Why this change? I can explain I think, first, the State had to have a witness because the soup theory was very weak, and second I think sho perjured herself because she was a sister of Mrs. Whitehood, who was charged with poisoning the soup, and if she should say that Pettit gave a capsule later by a few minutes, the oliarge would would bo lifted. That is my theory. All the witnesses agreed that Pettit was absent at tiiis time doing up his work at the barn, and Mrs. Hawthorn was mistaken. Suppose she was right, it is criminally absurd to suppose that Pettit kept his capsules of poison lying upon the medicine table where he took that oue from as Mrs. Hawthorn says. Now I am going to ask this jury not to believe a single word Yeager said when he stated that he treated for strychnine poisoning. I ask this in the name of common sense, because if Yeager told the truth here he lied to Pettit, he lied to Black, ho lied to Mrs. Shields' mother, he lied all the way througn until he stood upon the witness stand. All the wituosses agreed that she was kept under ohloroform all Tuesday and Tuesday night. Black comes early Wednesday morning and makes a digital examination. He finds no symptoms of stryohuine and Yeager mentions none to him. Mrs. Whitehead asked for this consultation aud Pettit said "send for whomsoever you want." Pettit then sent for Mrs. Pettit's aunt and a nurse. Do you believe that he would have sent for them Tuesday evening and then waited until four into Wednesday morning just before their arrival before giving the fatal dose? Is any evidenoe here that Pettit ever tampered with the medicine? On the contrary we find he followed the doctor's directions diligently. You remember that he did this when others present advised him to violate the doctor's orders. he had disobeyed it would have been a circumstance against him, and on the other hand 1 claim that as he obeyed it is a circumstance in his favor. Coming now to the death scene. Again I say and emphasize the fact that it is absurd to say that Pettit waited until Mrs. Ford and that Kate Bradley came to see him before he gave the last dosa. I say it is absurd to suppose that he gave stryohnine in that oil. I say she did not die in a convulsion on Wednesday but just as any other person would die, a natural death, even that woman, that Kate Bradley with all her diseased imagination bears this out. You determine from the appearance after death whether a patient dies from strychnine. Now, that man Yeager of all others, as he saw the corpse frequently and suspected poisoning, ought to have been asked as to these appearances. He was not and it is fair to presume that he saw none of the appearances incident to poisoning. McCorkla and Wallace, who went to New York with the remains were not asked either. Mrs. Vater, who oombed the corpse's hair saw nothing out of tho way. Mrs. Wallace, who took the hand and examined the rings saw nothing out of the way. The great mass who viewed the remains at the church saw nothing out of the way. Up to this timer emember no hint of suspicion has rested or the relations of Pettit and

Mrs. Whitehead. Now I want to ask you why this preacher from Crawfordsville comes here this night and conducts himself as he does. Tho very liist thing he does is to tell Pettit ho can't coine back to Shawnee the next' year as ho is without a wife. He is dictating to Pettit within a day after his wife's death. Haywood said he' would prove that Pettit talked of marrying Mrs. Whitehead before his wife's body was carried out of tlio house, and what does if amount to? Why when Switzer told him he could not st^y because bo hud no home he merely cuid that he did not alwaya intend to remiin without a home. (Ileie followed a vicious attack upou ltev. G. W. Switzer as the instigator and moving spirit in the whole atlair. It lasted ab.ut one hour.) After, this attack Mr. Kumler said lie ha.l a few works of kindness for

Yeager. Yeuger lied wheu he said ho treated for strychnine poisoning, This is proved by his conduct. Mr. Anderson I'm told you area fair man. I defy you to explain his conduct through this case. I say I defy you. (Anderson said "I'll do it.") On the day of Hattie Pettit's death—shunio bo to him forever—suspecting Pettit aud Mrs. Whitehead ol auuitery and heilRsh murder we find him practicing the songs of God with them to be sung at her funeral. Do you believe this m»n? (Jan you believe him? The next day with this same adulteress and murder he stands over the murdered lady and sings and cries. He says that Mrs. Whitehead came to him and said Pettit's urinal organs were out of order. It is a lie, and you know that if he had had common decency he never would hsve reoognized that woman again. This scoundrel, this preacher-doctor goes to this board meeting knowing of the murder and adultery and rises and says he knows of no bad things about Pettit. He votes for Pettit to go on with his preaching and shakes his hand knowing him to be an adulterer, a whore master and. a murder. Mrs. Shields writes when the rumors are rifo and says "spare not truth but tell us the worst," and yet knowing all he sits down—this man Yeager—and writes a dirty lio. Three months after Hattie Pettit has died of bloody murder—of bloody strychnine murder—when rumors are everywhere he sits down and commits a criminal offense by giving a false report to the Board of Health. Do you believe him? Would you believe him if the life of a dirty dog was in the scales. If you can find this man guilty with such witnesses then do it. It being 5 o'clock court adjourned and the vust throng retired.

WEDNESDAY.

The jam of the court room and corridors has not bten anything like equaled since this case begau and was a handsome compliment to Mr. Anderson, who at 8:30 arose and said in substance:

Each counsel for the defense began his speech with impressing you of your terrible responsibility. Those gentlemen were all men of years aud experience. All through the trial they have lost no opportunity to abuse Prosecutor Haywood and in their speeohes when tney did not abuse him they were abusing the witnesses for the State. Now let us lay aside all personalities and get down to the evidence. This is probably the last time I shall address a jury in behalf of the State of Indiana. Tnis is the seventh time 1 have assisted in prosecuting men on trial for their lives and my experience tells me that when ever a client is tho inuoceut victim of circumstances a lawyer is anxious to make a plain case and whenever~a lawyer defends a guilty man he spends his time abusing the prosecution. Col. DeHart spends three fourths of his time in ribaldy and telling stories, the purpose of whioh was to divert your attention from the damning facts of the case. They grow very bitter over the game of cards tha: Peters and Haywood play but what has that to do with the evidence in the case. Dr. Taylor sa'd upon the witness stand that he had refused to answer the State's hypothetical question bafore hand. We put six doctors on the stand and they had opinions which they were not afraid to express. The defense put five doctors ou the stand and I leave it with you if they answered on cross examination. They condemned the manner of the exhumation for its secreoy but if it had been public we would have been called rascals just the same. They searched the law bojks through and could find nothing against this secresy and so Col. DeHart finds two doctors from New York to denounce it. When Pettit tried to poison his wife did he call in the neighbors and tell them about it? No. ^hen if Pettit used secresy can he expect the prosecution to do otherwise. The court whose impartiality Col. DeHart extolled ruled that this exhumation was made according to law. Both the grand juries were in secret as the law requires and all preliminary examinations are also required to be secret. Yet we are dammed by tliedefense for doing what the statutes require. You remember Mr. Stuart's opening statement (or rather argument as the court reminded him several time?,) in which he said he would prove that Pettit had asked for the remains and was refused. But did they do if? They offered this request in evidence, but when it was proposed to have the answer of the prosecution and the ruling of the court they back out and none of it goes in. Peters at one time started to state the ruling of tho court, but the defense stopped him. They asked Dr. Peters wly ha did not take all the organs out of tho body aud he said the reason was that ho wanted to leave some evidence of the strychnine in the body. Now why did the defense not go to New York and get the bladder from the body and examine it? They have never oxplained. They said at one time that they would not proceed with the exports until Dr. O'Ferral had testified, aud kept you gentlemen idle for two half days. Then Dr. O'Ferral comes and they object to his going on the stand until their experts who had just oomo from Indianapolis had testified. Such is their consistency. Yet they are the especial patron saints of fair play. Dr. Peters did get mixed up oa tho color test but only once. He is asked the first time for tho color a»d their orders and gives it correctly. Two other imes ho waa islced the colors but not

their succession Uter DeHart had quizzed liici for 20 minutes he did give the succession wrong. But gentlemen let me put any of you ou the staud a half hour acd yon won't know whether comes before y. They admit that Dr. H'linesknew what ho was about aud by that admission they justity Peters as they Iwth used exactly the same methods aud obtained tho same results. To shield this murderer they ask you tj believe a million fold worse crime against Dr. Peters, an honorable mau. They haven't the nerve to accuse him openly of putting strvclmiue in iho body after death, but they slyly insinuate it. I'll prove that Dr. Peters was a perfectly honest witness. He had examined several bodies with strychnine. He knew the importance of the congestion of the braiu and spinal chord, but he swetrs there was no congestion aud that is the only source of the iniormation of tho defense on this their strongest point. And yet they impute his honesty. But the fact that strychnine was not found in the brain does not prove that it was not there. Col. DeHart abuses us for so much as assuming that a man could be so brutal as to murder his wife by repeated dosnes of strychnine and 15 minutes later tells all about the case of Dove in England for doing tlrit same thing. Pettit was unkind to his wife wheu, as Wilson testified, he was unkind to her when he forgot her so soon, when he said that, (The court announced that if ihere was another demonstration of laughter the room would be cleared. Judge Davidson insinuted that theso demonstrations were for a purpose.) Mrs. Wuitehead was the superior of his wife. Wheu Dr.

Yeager came to see Mrs. Pettit, Pettit filled him full of malaria talk but never once mentioned tho bitter tea or the strychnine about the house. Complete relaxation is only ono of the points of the State. The defense assumed that the patient was under the cover all the time, but all those who attended her, bathed her, turned her over and they could thus tell whether there was relaxation and they testified that there was. Dr. Black made a digital examination and also found complete relaxation. Defiart says it was not strychnine because there was fever, but no witness testified that sho was flushed or restless. Dr. Black testified once that Dr. Yeager said he found fever at either the first or second visit and later says that Yeager said it was at the first or second set of convulsions. Now the

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convulsions was on the fourth visit. Black against Black, impeacher against impesched. They say Dr. Yeager should have used a stomaoh pump, but ho did not get there uutil after tho convulsions and Mrs. Pettit had vomited up every thing in her ctomaoh. Col. DeHart said the slightest touch would bring on convulsions and you remember that Mrs. Whitehead told Kate Bradley on Wednesday morning not to touch the covers as it might bring on convulsions, so by the Colonel's own confession it must have been strychnine ou Wednesday. They said five reputable physicians testified that it was strychnine. Judge Davidson eulogized Dr. Jamesou as tho son of a man high in the Christian ohurcli. Now what was the purpose of this statement? It did not appear in the evidence, 1 don't impeach Dr. Jameson's houostv, but on oross examination you couldn't pin him down. He was full of explanations. Dr. Hodges, the gentleman with the imperial and pompadour,graduated at "Hah-vard He testified that if a man took five grains of strychnine and died in convulsions he would not be sure that shryohnine was the cause of death unless the congestion of the braiu was present. Dr. Hillis is a good doctor, but I have have had experience «.ith him as an expert and he is a medicid acrobat on the stand. Dr. Gott was eulogized by the defense and don't you think he needed it? He testified that euthanasia would be present in stryohnine death but did not know what the word meant. Dr. Taylor's case of ideopathir tetanus turned out to be cerebro spinal meningitis, and he very fairly refused to answer the State's hypothetical question. Whtft surprised me was that five doctors could be found who would testify there was doubt about death by strychnine when enough .was found in the body to have killed two people. The de fense logged in the compound morphine powders, insinuating that they contai-ed nux vomica, to throw a doubt on your minds. When Dr. Yeager asked the privilege of explaining what these powders were made of they would not allow it because it would then be necessary they said to rearrange their hypothetical questions. So nux vomica was necessary to the case was it? Pettit could not have killed her with chloroform because the attendants were watching him and ee would have been instantly suspected if he had held the ohloroform too long. They damn Yeager be cause he did not know what Mrs. Pettit died of, yet they have introduced five distinguished doctors who swear they do not know what was the matter with her with all the facts placed before them. Now come to Judge Davidson. I am surprised at him insulting Haywood in the same manner as Kumler and DeHart. I fully and heartily endose everything Haywood has done. Davidson spent two hours, I timed him, in abusing Haywood. He said Haywood had spent a year trying to convict Pettit. It is just a year since the indictment was returned and it was his duty to do so. Didn't they spend this same year trying to convict him? Do they expect us, three of us, to try both sides of tho case? What are those six lawyers paid for? They say we have shifted our ground from the chioken broth to the oapsulo theory. But we do no not rely upon either one separately but upon both. Thoy said Mrs. Shields was satisfied with Pettit's lotter of explanation, but is she satisfied now in the light of the facts? But tho defense admits that part of the letter was false, and, false in one tiling, you may discredit the whole letter. We don't claim that Pettit resolved to kill her with repeated dosea. He intended that she should die in his absence Newtown. That failing, ho decided that she should die that afternoon. Foiled by tho kind neighbors |ho beoame desperate and gave the last doses. Dr. Hickman testified that one of the troubles between Pettit and his wife at

South Bend was tho mother-in-law but they did not allow him to go any further and tell what other troubles there were. Where was Pettit that day when his weak wife was cleaning up the results of his own neglect in the parsonage? They argued that as she did not taste strychnine in the vomit on Tuesday there could have boeu no strychnine. Bat she lid not taste tho strychnine in tho vomit ou Sunday. They cl dm that our hypothetical question assumes convulsions lasted from 8 a. m., Tuesday till 2 a. m. Wednesday, but let me read this part of the question. It says the convulsions ceased at 11 a. m,, aud did not begin until 3 p. m. Tho rigid jaw in death is a common symptom of strychnine and tetauus aud yet they ask you by the symptoms to decide that it was not strychnine. Mr. Stuart said they would prove by Dr. BlacH that she did not die of strychnine but they got Black here and were afraid to put their hypothetical question to him although thoy had the privilege of six experts aud used only five and Dr, Black was here several days. They asked why we did not ask Dr. Haines our hypothetical qnestion. It was because he never practiced medicine. But then if he was against us why did they not aek him their question. Why did thoy brinj these Masonic mutt-era, bringing out prominently tlif.t lie was Grand

Prolate of Iudiana? Pettit boasted to Mrs. Shields that he hud induced David Meharry to fix his will favorable to Mrs. Whitehead. IIo said the Hawthorn boys would probably not like it but they would have had to stand it. If Pettit had gone secretly in the dead of night and exhumed the body with an honest chemist I would say here the chemist and give his testimony due credit. Why did they not go to New York and have an analysis? They complain of the manner of Peters analysis but what has that to do with the facte? Ah gentlemen it is the facts that hurt them not the method.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. The jam yesterday afternoon has not been approached since the court house wasbuilt. Before 1 o'olock every availableseat had been taken and before half past one the aisles and corridors were packed with men and women like sardines in boxes. Hundreds went away wholly unable to either see or hear. The immense audience both complimented the great ability of Mr. Anderson and heralded the approach of the end of the most celebrated case ever tried in Montgomery county, and one of the most celebrated in the criminal annals of Indiana. All the long afternoon men and women stood up, but it is safe to say paid as close attention as was ever paid one of Mr. Pettit's sermons in his palmiest days. As high as a dollar was paid for even passable seats and when Pettit entered, the roar of many voices went up in a manuer almost startling. He crossed the open space to his table erect and confident and for a man undergoing his ordeal looked exceedingly well. Judge Snyder before the speaking began warned the audience against any indecorum as the court room is the tribunal of justice aud a man was on trial for his life. Any demonstration he said would cause the court room to be cleared. Mr. Anderson said he now come to Davidson's argument on Yeager's testimony. Black did swear onoe that Yeager told him of the poison at the consultation. This makes the question, "Did Black lie or Yeager lie?" but "which time did Black lie?" Pettit wrote to Mrs. Shields on Monday that he would telegraph if his wife got worse, but the evidence shows he did not do it. They say, Yeager says he made no digital examination, yet he says ho made a thorough examination every time ho went there. They criticize Dr. Yeager for giving that certificate to the board of health, but just let me ask you what kind of a certificate that man Gott would have given. Yeager was uncertain until the analysis was made and then like a sensible man his last doubt was removed. Judge Davidson criticised Peters for beiug so careful of the remains in Lafayette and tried to infer that by some hocus poous, some legerdemain he had mixed the remains with others. I mention this to despise it. They you that Pettit loved his wile because she dressed well, but many men lavish dress upon their wives to hide their hellish treatment and from the evidence I suspect that Mrs. Pettit was more to account for dress than Pettit. They say he loved her— yet think of him in the Newtown church praying, rolling his eyes to heaven, and thinking^that IHB wife watj dying of his poison at home. They tell us that there was no concealment. Think of the lie to Ollie Eeeoe about the Attica trip, his being found in Mrs. Whitehead's 1 edrooni an hour after he had pretended to leave for his work, and the scene on the Battle Ground cot. Was this all pnblic? I myself cannot tell for my life whether they deDy that Mrs. Pettit had strychnine convulsions on Sunday. Neither their evidence nor arguments deny it, but they say that recurrence of the convulsions on Tuesday and their long continuance is fatal to the State's case. Gentlemen, you rememoer the experts all say that poisoning by stryohnine is followed by severe twitchings for hours. They say she said nothing at the approach of the convulsions on Tuesday. But she cried you all know "Oh Fredl they're coming—they're coming." and I want to say that if there's a God in Heaven who avenges the murder of the weak by the strong,

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You can get the corset that, more than any other, gives a woman a happy face, you can wear it two or three weeks and return it if not satisfactory. Ask at your store. The corset is Ball's.

The store has a primer on Corsets also. That is worth your reading. CiHCAUQ COBSET cc„ Chicago and Mew York.

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