Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — ATE INK NUTS BY MISTAKE [ARTICLE]

ATE INK NUTS BY MISTAKE

Long Island Folk Thought They Were Mushrooms—All Seized With Nausea and Delirium. Hempstead, L. I.—Gathering In Garden City park what looked like mushrooms, but proved to be ink nuts, resulted in serious Illness to more than |a dozen persons here the other day. Mrs. F. A. Sawyer and her daughter, |Mrs. Keith Trask, one of the trio of Rasters, with their maid, were aB seized with acute nausea and delirium (directly after eating the nuts at luncheon. Dr. Charles D. Cleghorn and R. D. (Grimmer were summoned and strong jaalts were administered with other remedies. Mrs. Sawyer was delirious for six hours and In a critical condition. Mrs. Trask and the maid responded more quickly to the treatment, but It took three days for them to regain their normal condition. Members of E. D. W. Blecker’s and Dr. Joseph O’Connor’s families also had a similar experience after eating Ink nuts. These nuts have slim stems land straight leaves turning up, all of which are reverse characteristics of the umbrella edible mushrooms, appearing only in the autumn on the Hempstead plains.