jasbo as a verb (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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Variety, Jan 11 1918 p 4 col 4.

"A large crowd present seemed curious as to what Houdini would do with an elephant. They likely forgot that only recently the same Harry had jasboed Broadway by escaping from a derrick in Times square, after the Metropolitan police had vowed Houdini could never make New York a rube town for a day."

In a review of Houdini vanishing an elephant from the stage of the Hippodrome in NY.

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