Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1913 — Champion Slow Train Story. [ARTICLE]

Champion Slow Train Story.

The last train had crawled through the station laboriously. In the waiting room the guard told the tale to a belated passenger. “It was last year,” he said, “a man wanted to commit suicide. He got on to the lines, put his head on the rails, and waited for the train.” “’Well?” queried the passenger, breathlessly. “Oh!” said the guard, “he died all right—of starvation.”