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Pistol Packin Duck Quack Shot Sparks Wacky Tales
A 1945 collage of comic near misses and odd accidents shows how the National Safety Council notes people and animals cause strange events. Stories include a man shot by a duck, a man surviving a fall, a car overturned by a child’s nursing bottle, and a man surviving train near-misses, all recounted with a wry, era tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean George Nea
New York
Stanley J. Banner
Banner
Bonner
James Hearn
Seattle
Hearn
Air Shaft
General Store
National Safety Council
Edward Comfort
Brooklyn
Harrisburg
Larry Ulingle
Nickle
Paul Bunyan
Lake Ene
Margaret Cook
Toledo
Mise Betta Boren
Marinette
Wis
Jesse Spitzer
Denver
Spitzer
G. I
Australia
Newark
N. J
Michael Bubick