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Show Eastern Visitor Mysteriously Stricken Retired Manufacturer Collapses in Sugar House Shop fell apart in his hands. At thin the Black Ace fell into a paroxysm parox-ysm of mirth and collapsed shortly short-ly afterwards, and began spilling his sawdust all over the floor. When he was picked up his friends discovered that he had split both sides from the arm pit to the waist, laughing at the gags, and they called a seamstress seams-tress to sow him up but she arrived ar-rived too late. O Mystery at first surrounded the death late yesterday of the Black Ace, retired manufacturer of Coal River, West Va., who collapsed col-lapsed at the Gimmick Fun Shop 2040 South 11th East, in Sugar-house. Sugar-house. Investigation, however, that death was due to over-indulgence of the clavichord, superinduced superin-duced by indoconservation of the ga'sephus glands, cause by excessive excess-ive laughing. The Black Ace, with a party of j ' m friends, had spent most of the ' afternoon experimenting with 11 hundrends of practical jokes and novelty gadgets on display at the MAGIC SHOP, and had expressed amusement at the tremendous variety of gags. He had tried such gadgets as the squirting ruckle, a melting spoon, collapsible collap-sible table knife, explosive matches, match-es, bookwhich shoot when opened, exploding fountain pens, etc., and had laughedL so hilariously as to experience some difficulty with his breathing. No concern was felt however, until a short time later when he was handed a candy can-dy bar which, when unwrapped, |