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...Highway 71 begins in Kansas City, ends at Baton Rouge, La. It passes through northwest Arkansas en route and serves the town of Rogers (pop. 3,500). From a drugstore window there, 35-year-old Clerk Cloe Mitchell often ruminated on the volume, speed and danger of passing traffic. Not long ago Cloe Mitchell decided to do something about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rogers' Reaper | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Inside the black shroud was Clerk Cloe Mitchell. From a Rogers doctor he had borrowed skull and arm bones and at least for a time after passing Spectre Mitchell, motorists, particularly colored ones, slowed down. Declared State Police Superintendent Albright: "Statues of the Grim Reaper on highways would cause motorists to drive with caution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rogers' Reaper | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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