The old type of travelling manager was moving his company very, s very much on the cheap, and a kindly stationmaster had smuggled them into goods trucks, and had sent them off at goods rates. As the train stopped during the night at a wayside station the stationmaster asked the guard what he had in the train. "Artificial manure and actors!" was the reply. Immediately a head appeared from the cattle truck, and a voice thundered: "Sir, you might have said 'actors' first!" • .
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)
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