Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Missed the Usual “Boom.” [ARTICLE]

Missed the Usual “Boom.”

Mr. Goode of the vaudeville team of Goode and Rottenne was walking down the street, when he stepped upon a banana peel and came to the sidewalk with much the same force that characterizes his famous tumble from the slapstick in the hands of his partner. Slowly rising to his feet, with a puzzled, disappointed look on his face, he exclaimed: “Huh! I suppose the bass-drummer has gone to sleep again.”—■Baltimore American.