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Guess he wasn’t thinking…
June 8, 2012 by TimHughes · Leave a Comment
The January 8, 1902 issue of the “Wellsville Daily Reporter” of New York has an interesting article of a construction worker who apparently wasn’t thinking when he attempted to thaw frozen dynamite (see below).
Filed under: The 20th & 21st Centuries, Unusual, Fun & Bizarre
Tagged: 20th century, humor, New York, Wellsville Daily Reporter