Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1914 — Youth Lost a Thumb While Helping Mow Away Hay. [ARTICLE]

Youth Lost a Thumb While Helping Mow Away Hay.

Alvin, the 14-year-old son of J. C. Borntrager, who bought the former Harion Adams farm southeast of town, lost his left thumb today while driving a team that operated a large fork for mowing hay away. In starting the team his thumb caught between the rope and a with an ax. Dr. Washburn dressed as smoothly as it could have been large pulley and was cut off almost the injured member.