Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1910 — Eloquent Signs, [ARTICLE]

Eloquent Signs,

“Too bad about Deffers, the deaf and dumb man, who was to make sign speeches for the central committee, wasn’t it?” ‘‘l didn’t hear what it was. What was It?” “Just before the campaign opened all the fingers on his right hand were cut off by a circular saw, leaving only the stumps.” “Well, they tell me that he went on the tour of speech-making, as planned, as soon as his hand recovered, and that he developed into a splendid stump speaker.”