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The Tragic Fate of Stanley Fox
Stanley Fox is a highly skilled respect for its lost employee and
salesman of The Gleason Works in Stanley’s wife Cora is placed on the
1912, returning from England where company payroll for many years until
he has been successfully selling their sons are grown. One of Stanley’s
products to budding automobile and sons, Raymond, is eventually
truck plants. He has excitedly booked employed by The Gleason Works.
his passage across the Atlantic Ocean
on the brand-new Titanic. When the
grand ship hits the infamous iceberg,
Stanley retrieves his valuable sales
book from the ship’s safe, puts on
one of the cork-filled life jackets,
and is one of the many people to
heroically assist children and women
across the slanting deck to the
lifeboats – not enough for even half
the people aboard. Stanley does not
get on a lifeboat. His account book
is returned to The Gleason Works. In
an unprecedented gesture, Gleason
shuts down for the afternoon out of
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