Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — He Stuck Fast in the Pipe. [ARTICLE]

He Stuck Fast in the Pipe.

Egbert Spencer, 6 years old and a resident of Evanston, a suburb of Chicago. is a genuine sport, and when his companions dared him to crawl through a sewer pipe he made the attempt. He stuck fast in the middle and was unable to move either way. His mother’s efforts to pull him out were unavailable and the pipe had to be broken with a hammer before he could escape. tan Egyptian monuments over three thousand years old there are representations of persons playing at a game resembling checkers.