Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1901 — Wants Pay for Lost Laugh. [ARTICLE]

Wants Pay for Lost Laugh.

Because he laughed so heartily that the actors on the stage forgot theii lines and the cornet player in the orchestra couldn’t blow a note, Thomaj Davis claims to have been ordered from a Lynn (Mass.) theater. He has begun a suit, claiming that not less than $250,000 will appease his injured feelings and wipe from his memory the funny scene he missed when placed on the sidewalk. He visited the theater on Friday night. An act on the stage struck his fancy, and he gave vent to a laugh, and in a short time the entire audience whs in roars.