Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1914 — HITS FUTURIST WITH POTATO [ARTICLE]

HITS FUTURIST WITH POTATO

Meeting in Florence Attended by 7,000 Who Refuse to Listen to Speakers. Florence.—More than 7,000 persons took part in a meeting arranged by the Futurists in the Verdi theater here. Among the speakers were Marinetti, Soffici, Boccioni, Carra, Papini and others interested in the movement. The audience was determined from the outset to prevent the speakers from being heard. Shouts, hisses and the tooting of motor horns kept the hall in a turmoil for an hour and a rain of missiles of every description fell on the speakers. Marinetti, who is practically the founder of the futurist movement in Italy, was struck in the eye with a large potato. The meeting was dissolved in disorder. Marinetti was taken to a hospital.