Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1916 — Narrow Escape. [ARTICLE]

Narrow Escape.

A Columbus woman was going from her desk to her home for a noon luncheon. She had a slight headache, the sun was shining bright and she was tired. All around her motor cars were purring softly or snorting past without giving her so much as a toot of the horn. “I wish I was wealthy enough to own a car,” she said to herself. “I never would walk a step If I had a car of my own. Just listen at that car coming now. I wish somebody was driving knew me and would offer to take me home In It It sounds like one of these long, easy riding, rakish looking touring cars —the kind just built for comfort Gee! I wish the driver would ask me to ride.” Then she looked up as the car wenl past her. It was an automobile hearse —lndianapolis News.