Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1893 — In a Position to Know. [ARTICLE]

In a Position to Know.

Indianapolis Journal. “Talk about hard times,” said the fat man with the big diamond, “there are business men in this city of whom I have reason to believe that they are starving—or at least do not have enough to eat at home,” “How do you figure that out?" “Well, you see, I run a free lunch in connection with my bar.” Gorham Abbott,of Winsted, Conn., surprised his friends by beginning to talk after being dumb for thirty years. He was made deaf and dumb by an attack of scarlet fever in his youth. Within a week he has uttered several words coherently, and it is thought he may regain full power of speech. •' 1 ■' 11 11 -