"PRESIDENT IS DEAD."
I HOAX CAUSES SENSATION, j A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Nov. 24. ! At Atlanta, Georgia, the VicePresident (Mr. T. R. Marshall), ■while speaking in the City Audi- | torium, received a telephone rues- I gage: ''President Wilson is dead | come to Washington immediately." i A great sensation was created in the audience, women weeping and singing hymns. Later it was discovered that the message was a j hoax by a practical joker. i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17327, 26 November 1919, Page 9
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