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For Those Buried Alive

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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There are a great many people In this city who have a constant dread of being buried alive. Whenever theii thoughts turn on death they consldei this posslbility. It is not strange, therefore, that the genius of the American inventor has come to the front in this field and has patented a number ol articles designed to guarantee that when you are in your grave, in case you should come to life, you can teil the cemetery authorities and be resurrected. I saw such a machine yesterday It consisted of a long tube running down through the coffln to the nose oí the supposed corpse. Down this tube fresh air was constantly forced by means of a pinwheel attachment over the grave. On the forehead of the supposed corpse is placed a large button of wood, adjusted in such a way that in case the supposed corpse should move in the grave a sort of foghorn signa] wlll be blown up abcve the ground and the grave digger summoned.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register