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Somersault of Death
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A female daredevil stunt driver, possibly Beryle Elliot, in a horseless carriage catapults up into the air, doing a loop-the-loop or sommersault off a ski jump-type apparatus at the Brockton, Massachussetts Fair where a huge crowd has assembled.
October 1906
Glasier, F. W. (Frederick W.)
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