Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1915 — Boy Is Shock Absorber. [ARTICLE]

Boy Is Shock Absorber.

Howard Davis, a fourteen-year-old Upland (Pa.) boy, performed a remarkable tumbling act while picking cherries in a high tree. That his neck was not broken was probably due to the fact that in his flight from the upper branches he struck and knocked from a ladder Charles Esslinger, another lad, who really suffered most from an Injury to his back. After striking young Esslinger Davis turned a somersault in the air and fell at full length on the ground. The shock stunned him temporarily, but he soon regained his feet, while his companion required assistance to get home.