Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — TACK IN SOUP; ASKS $10,000. [ARTICLE]

TACK IN SOUP; ASKS $10,000.

X-Ray Photograph Shows Iron Fragment In Digestive Tract of New York Man. New York.—An X-ray photograph was filed In the Supreme court showing that Morris D. Spitzer is carrying a large tack, about three-quarters of an inch long, inside him. The tack is Imbedded in his digestive tract, near the center of his body. Spitzer blames some vegetable soup which he bought in a restaurant at 42 East Fourteenth street on December 28, 1915, for the intrusion of the tack. He says he picked up several of- the tacks while eating his soup, and swallowing one before he realized it. Another he picked out of his mouth. The tack-swallowing incident is the basis of a SIO,OOO damage action against the restaurant company. The restaurant company denies it was guilty of negligence.