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Slit Skirt Miracle Ignites Charity Case in Kansas City
A beggar with a deaf, dumb and blind sign receives coins from a clerk and a well dressed woman in Kansas City. The scene shifts as a fashionably dressed shopper’s sight reveals a modern skirt design. The tale ends with a judge sending the beggar to the municipal farm for 100 days after a curious exchange. The remainder pitches old remedies and patent medicine lines typical of the era.
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Kansas City
J. W. West
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