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On his way in to breakfast next morning, Manager Brennan bought a copy of the Ashland _Morning Chronicle_ to glance through during the progress of the meal. Having seated himself and given his order, he spread open the sheet. The first thing to catch his eye was the flaming headline, "Palace Theater Wrecked by Mob."
Having heard echoes of the affair the night before, the manager glanced over the account with interest. Halfway down the column he stopped short, clutched the paper, and stared with bulging eyes and purpling cheeks at a certain short paragraph: