Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — Oversight. [ARTICLE]

Oversight.

The steamboat came splashing along her course at full speed, and the first thing the passengers knew when it stopped was that it had crashed head on into the "Mercy!" cried a passenger. "1 wonder what is the matter?” “Nothin’," said Pat, one of the deck hands. “Nothin’ ma’am —ut looks to me as if the captain just forgot that we stop here."