Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — MOUSE IN GINGER ALE UPSETS MAN FOR DAYS [ARTICLE]

MOUSE IN GINGER ALE UPSETS MAN FOR DAYS

After Hl* Recovery He Bum Case Where He, and GM Companion a* Well, Were Shocked. Buffalo, N. Y.—A mouse in a battle of ginger ale served at the Old Teck Case so upset the stomach of Freda rick McGregor, a salesman, that for a long period, he says, he was unable to work or eat. He is suing the Vartray Water Company, manufactureri of the ginger ale, and Han* Guy Geyer, proprietor of the case, in the city court for $475 damage*. MeGregor told Judge Noonan that he went to the case one night accompanied by Mis* Grace Hickley. They had a little supper and after a few dances ordered cooling drinks. MoGregor took a Porto Rican rickey, one of the ingredients of which is ginger ale. A waiter poured the drink and left the ginger ale botefe on the table. Looking up from a grapejuice highball, Miss Hickley saw, she testified, what she thought was a string protruding from the neck of the ginger ale bottle. McGregor called a waiter, who gave the supposed string a tug. Out of the bottle he pulled a small house mouse by the tail. McGregor and Miss Hickley became nauseated, they testified. McGregor took his companion home. He went to work two days later, he said, and then became so sick that he had to go to his home In Canada, where he spent two weeks recuperating. But the mouse was still on his mind when he came back, he declared, and the mental picture of it soaking in his ginger ale so upset him, he testified, that he was able to work-only half the time for three weeks after he came back. McGregor said bis illness cost him $96 in income. Dr. James E. Sullivan testified that he had attended McGregor and that McGregor had stomach cramps for four days. Mr. Geyer and Bdward P. Pattison of Mount Morris, president of the Vartray Waler Company, admitted the presence of the mouse in the ginger ale bottle, but said they hadn’t any idea how it got there.