A Seemingly Perfect Publicity Stunt (Sept. 15, 1896)


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A Seemingly Perfect Publicity Stunt (Sept. 15, 1896)

Recognizing that nothing draws a crowd like the promise of danger, two locomotives of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company were intentionally set on a head-on collision course, in order to promote the railway's new two dollar round- trip tickets for state wide travel. The event drew more than 40,000 spectators, a windfall for the promoters behind it.


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