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Source: Whim Source type: magazine Document type: editorial column Document title: “Whimwhams” Author(s): anonymous Date of publication: December 1901 Volume number: 2 Issue number: 5 Pagination: 148-54 (excerpt below includes only pages 152-53) |
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| “Whimwhams.” Whim Dec. 1901 v2n5: pp. 148-54. |
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| Keywords |
| Leslie Syndicate; McKinley assassination (news coverage: personal response). |
| Named persons |
| William McKinley. |
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Whimwhams [excerpt]
TALK about enterprise! In a testimonial sheet recently sent out by the Leslie Syndicate, a New York concern which supplies newspapers with illustrated matter, the following excerpts may be of interest to whimsical readers:
I wish to congratulate you upon your enterprise in sending us cuts of the McKinley funeral, etc., etc., immediately upon the night that the President was assassinated.
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Considering that McKinley lives, and the doctors say will recover, to dig grave, make coffin, paint funeral train and select cemetary [sic] plot while [152][153] he is alive, excel all former efforts at forecasting the future.
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Verily this is enterprise with
a vengeance. You pays your money and you gets pictures of a man’s grave, coffin,
funeral train, cemetary [sic] plot, etc., ad nauseam, long before the victim
has drawn his last breath.
Imagine the rage of this concern if some illustrious
sick man should take it into his head to get well! Think of the money and enterprise
wasted!
These methods may not be the quintessence of tact,
but are they not wonderful, marvellous [sic], pyramidal &—American?