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Show FREE PASS FOR CORPSE Asserting that her dead husband was as much entitled to travel on a free pass as when he was alive, Mrs. John Chadwick of Seattle, staggered the purser of the steamship State of Washington, by refusing to pay freight on his corpse which she had brought to the vessel for shipment. "My husband had a free pass on the State of Washington when he was alive," she said to the official, "and no one is going to prevent him traveling travel-ing on it when he is dead, poor fellow." fel-low." TVip nvrggr ny Y 1 ' to head( , , .- , When he read the repli irregram: "Let the corpse travel free and collect pass," the widow heaved a sigh of satisfaction and said she knew 6he would win. |