Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — IT WAS POISON, NOT SMOKE [ARTICLE]

IT WAS POISON, NOT SMOKE

Mothers Flog Boys, Not Knowing They Had Eaten Roots, and Later Bummon Doctors. * Bloomsburg, Pa. —Eating yellow dock roots, which they mistook for artichokes, six Bloomsburg boys reach* ed their homes to become deathly sick. —- p. Several of the mothers at first concluded that they had been smoking, and the youngsters came in for a chastisement. Their condition soon became such, however, that doctors were hastily summoned, and for a time it was feared they all would die. The boys affected were Raymond For, Irwin and Harry Whennan, William Lawless, George FoUmer and Rutter Ohl.