Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — Holiday Visitors. [ARTICLE]

Holiday Visitors.

An appalling case of deafness was that of an old lady who lived just across the street from the navy yard. On Washington’s birthday they fired a salute of twenty-one guns. The old lady was observed to start and listen as the last gun was fired; then, adjusting her cap and smoothing her dress, she exclaimed, “Come in.”—Success Magazine.