Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — Wore Out His Finger. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wore Out His Finger.

There is a brakeman on the Colorado Midland Ratboad who years ago lost his Index finger on his right hand. One day recently a • lady passenger who had been most interested In tha vronderfnl works of nature the brakeman had pointed out to her Gong the road noticed the stub finger. When the conductor came through the car she said to him: “Excust me, sir. but can you tell me how the brakeman lost his fore,lnger? He seems to be such an accommodating fellow." "Yes, mum, that’ just it. He is so accommodating that he wore that finger off pointing put the scenery along th a line," said the conductor.

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