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From: "John O'Brien" <>
Subject: Women Mobbed a Salesman - Kansas City, KS - July 1914
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:47:27 -0600

BRADY, COOK, HOFFMAN


"The Kansas City Star" (Missouri) Thursday, July 2, 1914

WOMEN MOBBED A SALESMAN.

Charles HOFFMAN, salesman for a patent sadiron that
was very sad, indeed, made the great mistake yesterday.
He went back over territory that he had already canvassed.
Then things began to happen. News of the near riot went
by telephone to police headquarters on the Kansas side
yesterday afternoon.

In a house near Fifth Street and Rowland Avenue, James
COOK, motor cycle patrolman, found HOFFMAN held
captive by twenty-five indignant housewives. More were on
the way, as COOK could readily observe. The telephone
had summoned the neighborhood.

From the answers, COOK gathered that HOFFMAN had
sold an iron which he represented could be heated by carbon
and would retain the heat an hour.

"But it stays hot only about two minutes," said one woman,
flourishing her purchase. "And to think I gave him $3.40 for it.
Here, see for yourself."

Thereupon the iron was heated and the woman attempted to
iron a shirtwaist. The iron went cold and the waist looked like
a venerable ruin. COOK rescued HOFFMAN from the women
and took him to police headquarters. Sixty women by the
count, half of them bearing purchases, appeared against
HOFFMAN in the Kansas side police court this morning.
Judge BRADY fined HOFFMAN $25 and sentenced him to
three months in jail.



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