Tuesday, June 05, 2007

As Long as You've Got Your Health...

From an 1884 advertisement in Harper's Weekly:

WHO KNOWS WHEN?
Steamboats will sink or burn?
Railroad trains will be wrecked?
Boilers or Lamps will explode?
Horses will take fright and run?
Bricks or Timbers will fall?
Fire burn or lightning strike?
Machinery will crush or mangle?
Tools or glass will cut?
Splinters or nails will wound?
Slips or falls will happen?
Hammer or weights will bruise?
Ladder or staging will give way?
Animals will kick or bite?
Limbs will be sprained or broken?
Fatal or disabling injury may be
Caused in any one of a thousand ways

Insure in the Travelers of Hartford, Conn.
No extra charge for European travel or residence

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