Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1913 — ADE MAKES DENIAL OF ANY INJURY [ARTICLE]

ADE MAKES DENIAL OF ANY INJURY

Says It Was His Hat That Was Carried to Drugstore—Describes Fall in Humorous Way.

George Ade has submitted to a newspaper interview concerning his recent fall on the icy pavement at Lafayette, and sets at rest the prevailing idea that he was seriously injured. “Tell the newspapers that I demand a retraction,” said Mr. Ade, in a plea that sounded almost pitiful as it came over the telephone from the Indiana city. "Tell them I was exercising my right as a freeborn citizen of Indiana to do a cross between the tango and the highland fling. Having had instructions from some competent coaches along Michigan avenue I was getting away with the hybrid all right when a gust of wind butted in and spoiled the turn. It was the hat that got the hook, understand? The newspapers got it wrong—dead wrong. If they don’t set me right I’ll have to mortgage the Brook farm of mine to answer the telegrams and cables that are headed my way. I never knew before that I had so many friends ready to extend cordial sympathy by wire, collect and otherwise While I was making financial apologies to the man whose sidewalk was Injured a friend took my hat into a drug store to brush it off. I wish now that he hadn’t done so, because I could put up a whole factory with the money that my friends have spent on messages. Please assure them that my hat is doing as well as may be expected considering the size to which my head and the revenues of the Western Union have been swelled.”