Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — Another Thigh Bone Broken. [ARTICLE]

Another Thigh Bone Broken.

Mrs. Peter Rusk, living near the south end of Weston street, met. With the very serious accident, Let Saturday morning, of having one of her thigh bones, or femurs broken. It oooured about six o’clock, and resulted from slipping on an icy walk, in the yard. The break is in the neck of the femur, close to where it enters the hip joint. Dr. Berkley was called and treated it by the usual method in such oases by attaching weights, ti a pulley The accident will be sure to lay Mrs. Rush up for a long time, especially as she is quite well along in years.