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How To Stop A Street Car

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
October
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

If you wish to ride on the street cars make some motion to indícate the same in order that the conductor or motorman may know. - Times. Yes, many people forget, and the cars go by. There are several ways of stopping the car. The proper thing to do, at first is to stand out in the mud, just ahead of the crossing, lay your umbrella and bundies down and placing your left thurab to your nose and your right to the little finger of your left hand, give your fingers a wriggling movement. If the blind motorneer don't see you, shake your fist at him and address him biblically; then if you haven't secured his attention, spring on with him as the car goes by and knock him off. We have generally had to do the latter, to get the car stopped. The conductor will stop the car to piek up the dead body of the motor fiend.

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News