Speaking of hair-breath escapes and hair-raising Sunday accidents, Masters Torrey and Kenneth McLean, sons of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. McLean, and Master Bruce Stephens, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Stephens, figured in one yesterday afternoon in which an innocent by-standing dahlia was broken and suffered a lingering death and the auto-cart in which they were capering around the back yard at the McLean home on North Chestnut street at the fearful speed of 10 miles an hour was somewhat wrecked.
One of the lines of the steering wheel broke and caused all the trouble. Bruce was riding high and driving carefully as might be, and Torrey and Kenneth were given ‘er the gas from who laid the rail when Snap! went the line, the auto became unmanageable, and the poor dahlia didn’t have a chance for its life.
The occupant and operators of the car are all doing well today, and the car is being repaired, but the dahlia has ceased.
From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Monday, Aug. 31, 1925
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