News articles: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL

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George Fisher and friends auto accident 1914

"They were coming along the home road about five miles east of Raritan about three o'clock in the morning and were laughing and talking to together when somehow Mr. Moon who was driving twisted the front wheel of his car too far or too abruptly and the thing reared up on its front leg and turned a double summersault and scattered the delegation all around the southern part of Point Pleasant township. Mr. Moon who had his ribs stove in was be only one seriously hurt. George Foster lay unconscious for quite a while Otto Gibbs and John Gillam escaped with contusions, bruises, strains, abrasions, concussions and a loss of breath add epidermis. The machine was wrecked."

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