Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — "Hitch in Side” Was Nine Broken Ribs [ARTICLE]

"Hitch in Side” Was Nine Broken Ribs

St. Louis. —Thomas Morgan, 54, walked into the city dispensary and asked doctors to take a look at his side. “I’ve got a hitch there and it’s making me nervous,” he told the doctors. They found he had nine fractured ribs and internal hurts and ordered him sent to the hospital. “A wagon ran over me in East St. -Louis.” Morgan said, “but I 1 didn’t pay any attention to a little thing like that. Today my side got to hurting me considerable and I thought I ha<T' a little totjcfa of rheumatism that needed fixing up.”