The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-15
The aFat Contributor ON Accident

The 'tFnt Contributor" ON Accident
Insurance.
The 'Breakneck Accident insurance Com,
panyf wrote To ih@ Fat Contributor not long
since to work up o column or so of induces
ments for people TO take out policies. This
IS the way he did it:
Everybody should get insured against acci-
dents No matter if you belong to one Of the
''hest OF families incidents will happen in
them.
Get policy. The old proverb says ssHon
estY is the best policy" but that was before
Accident Insurance Companies started.
Now the best policy is policy in the Break
neck"
The other day man in Chicago fell ont of
q fourth-story window He had no insurance,
and consequently was killed. Another man
on the same day fell out with his wife. He
was insured in the 'BreakGeck, and Is ready
TO fall out again.
woman driving a spirited horse in ST.
Louis was rgn away with. Being insured
against accidents, she wasn't alarmed bit,
stopped the horse, and came back safe. Her
policy running out, she neglected to renew
it. Shortly after she was run away with
again. Her husbands partner ran away
with her this time, and she hash come back
yet. Don't fail to renew yonr policy, partic-
ularly if it is IN the "Breakneck.
At Dubuque. Iowa. man was kicked by a
horse. The horse WASH insured, and he got
kicked back.
Near Paris. Ky, a man, while engaged in
running a circular saw, had his arms taken
off. They consisted of cavalry sabre and 9
double barreiled shot gun. The man who
carried them off had an accident insurance
aud he hasn't been caught yet
In Ph3fadp}rhIa a man fall from, tho epaf.
fold and broke his neck. If he had been in
sured in the .Breakneckh his sentence might
have been committed to imprisonment
for life. Why will men neglect these
things?
Oar agent at Penn Yam, New York, writes:
"0ne of my neighbors whom | had solicited
to take policy, laughed at me for thinking
he could not take care of himself. The very
next day he fell from the roof of his house,
and-and WASH hurt bit -
In Utica, New \ ork, a man accidentally
got married. Being insured in the Break
neck he viii receive $50 week until he
RECEIVERS.
young man in Portsmouth, Ohio, was
Tilted by young lady and sued her to re-
cover damages. Insured in the "Break
neck" he will receive fifteen dollars week
until he RECEIVERS.
A man was sentenced to solitary con-
fnement for life in the Michigan State Pris>
on Policy in the "Breakneck" fifteen
dollars week as long as he is confined to his
room.
gray-headed old man was insured in the
"Breakneck.n The very next day he bought
bottle Of hair dye-and dyed. His family
received a handsome sum, on the black
board
Two cattle drovers started with drove of
cattle to New York One had policy and
the other had none There was a collision,
and the one who had the policy wasn't hurt
bt-and the other wasn't either. Insure in
the "Breakneck.
Near Portland Maine, poor man fell
from loft and broke his neck. He re-
reived his insurance, $1,000, from the
"Breakneck. with which he was enabled to
set himseifup in business, and is now doing
we'll
our agent at Cleveland, Ohio, writes: IA
lumber horse ran away with a bob.taiied
wagon and tipped the street over onto
small woman aud six elderly children. The
horse began to cry and the wagon bled freely
at the nose. but otherwise the street is doing
we'll No insurance.
A boiler exploded at Memphis, blowing
the ngineer into the AIR quite out of sight.
He will receive fifteen dollars day until be
comes down again.
a hog drover IN MI STEERING, NY, was
very much hurt by a fall-fail in pork. No
insurance.
John Smith, of Michigan, lost good deal
OF time by a sprain. An agent of Break
neck found il aud returned ii to him.
A man ran away from Liteh6eld, ILL.,, to
avoid paying his debts. He left family
mot being able to take them with HIM. No
insurance.
A man accidentally fell from steamer at
New Orleans, into the river. AS be was
sinking the third time be suddenly recollect-
ed that his policy in the "Breakneck" had
expired. He then swan ashore, sought
out the agent and renewed his policy, and
Immediately returned to the river and sank
the third time in serene and tranquil man
ner. Insure before you are in surely.
A cripple in Boston had bis legs taken of
a rhymster took them off in verses. No
insurance.
A fellow took drink of whisky, at saloon
in Cincinnati. Suddenly recollectng that be
had no insurance, he Immediately took an
emetic, and then he took out policy in the
s'Breakneck" He now takes his drinks
with i,npuniiy-ifImpunity treats.
member Of Congress from New York
City went to Washington, and fell from
grace spraiuing his brains so badly that he
was forced to carry them in sling. No in>
surance-