Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1914 — Breaking It Gently. [ARTICLE]

Breaking It Gently.

"I hev come to tell yez, Mrs. Malone, that yer husband met with an accident." “An’ what Is it-now?” wailed Mrs. Malone. “He was overcome by the heat, mum.” "Overcome by the heat, was hes An’ how did it happen?” “He fell into the furnace over at the foundry, mum.” —Independent.