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Source: That Reminds Me
Source type: book
Document type: essay
Document title: “A Postscript”
Author(s): anonymous [essay]; anonymous [book]
Publisher: George W. Jacobs and Co.
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Year of publication: 1905
Pagination: 10

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Citation
“A Postscript.” That Reminds Me. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1905: p. 10.
 
Transcription
full text of essay; excerpt of book
 
Keywords
William McKinley (official bulletins); McKinley assassination (news coverage: personal response); McKinley assassination (related tragedies).
 
Named persons
William McKinley.
 
Notes
The identity of Jones (below) cannot be verified. Presumably Jones is not the actual person’s name (assuming the anecdote is not a fictitious one).

From title page: That Reminds Me: A Collection of Tales Worth Telling.
 
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A Postscript

     The editor of a rural paper visited a large city just after the shooting of Mr. McKinley and took great interest in the newspaper bulletins informing the public of the president’s condition. Shortly after the editor’s return home, Deacon Jones was taken seriously ill, and the following bulletins were promptly posted:

10.00 A. M.—Deacon Jones no better.
11.00 A. M.—Deacon Jones has relapse.
12.30 P. M.—Deacon Jones weaker. Pulse failing.
12.15 P. M.—Deacon Jones’s family summoned.
13.10 P. M.—Deacon Jones has died and gone to Heaven.

     Later in the afternoon a traveling salesman happened by, stopped to read the bulletins, and, going to the board, added:

14.10 P. M.—Great excitement in Heaven; Deacon Jones
                         has not yet arrived. The worst is feared.
 

 

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