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Accepts Wager That He Can't Reach New York WithoutStepping Forward.! A new brand of iptnicontlnintil v*~ Idestfianiem tru introduced to on-1 j lookers lipOgden yesterday whan P»t*l J rick Harmon, oner from Tiperarv and I lister of Seattle, walked Into Ogden bound for New York afoot. Those!who mtt Harmon arrive will no longer ]rouehMKfi more than passing gianrerfat the old time pedestrian who merrily walked along the beat way he couldland got there ** quick mm he cow Id. !I Harmon dMMl't walk where he’* going. Tie walks w here he'a coming I from—or, rather, Instead of walking f whenes, he afrifle# along hence. That j la. he fa walking backwards from; j Seat tie to New York.,. j| Accompanied by W, If. Botif^r* tl*| iso of Seattle, liirmon ia going back# | I I wards to the eastern metropolis «* the I result of a wmger-—a wager made by j two Settle club men, with |f$,dW In I the stakeholders hands. The pedestrian will get »MOO if h* accom- j | pHShes hia ta«k within the alloted jtlme—2*0 days, while hia watchman, |I Rotager receives $4 i along and seeing thatL—no turning* around‘hunching.’'Harmon ta a comfortably filed bust-day for goingIhe does It fairi ror otherwisetIneap man of Seattle, a member of va•»aj €ItCI ri c| r| tir«aIrious club* in the 4'oast city, and __| athlete, Hit venture I* the after-math of a chance remark In « Meattle chib room, in which a friend com* i plimenti d the gfowm of another who had Walked from a suburban town. The friend received the compliment as hia due, whereupon Harmon declared } he could not only duplicate that feat without effort but that he could do ft backwards^ Further discussion of the likelihood of hia being able to walk the distance referred to lead to hia undertaking a real hike to New York city, back war da. He walks with a looking glass attached to himself | ^ at an angle that permit* him to watch ; the road behind him. The trip from San Francisco has occupied # days, a hlch la ahead of schedule. | |, When the cheat feels on fire, and *the throat burn*, you have indigestionftItcI w1 «Klr
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Ogden Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1915
Page 6
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