Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1913 — STUCK IN TELEPHONE BOOTH [ARTICLE]

STUCK IN TELEPHONE BOOTH

tP«t New York Doctor Had to Be Chopped From Narrow Doorway by Hie Friends. In Joseph Burger’s case at 20 Avestne C, ft group of men who call them•elves “The Midnight Students of Btfrger College.” were feasting, when « telephone call came for Dr. Isidore Zippert es 351 Bast Fourth street, one the students. Dr. Zippert. who weighs 306 pounds, hurried to the tele-

phone booth and managed to squeeze inside. The call was .from one of Dr. Zippert’s patients and the physlican told him that be would viist him at once. When he tried to get through the narrow door of the booth Dr. Zippert discovered that it was much harder to get out than it had been to get in, and afted several minutes of frantic efforf his body was wedged fast in the door frame. Dr. Zlppert's cries brught several of his friends to his aid, who after a vain

attempt to pull him through, got an as and chopped the frame out, nearly halt an hour after he entered the booth. The physician was ffint from his exertions, hot hastened to his patient— New York Times. .