Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Victim of Very Peculiar Accident [ARTICLE]

Victim of Very Peculiar Accident

Orville Price, of the Gamlerllng farm, Pulaski county, met with a very peculiar accident recently. He was husking corn and got a sand burr fast In his mitten. He took his teeth and pulled It from the mitten, but It accidently flew down his throat Every effoit was made to get tie burr out, but It proved unavailing and the young man suffered excruciating agony, with bleeding from ti e throat Finally It worked down into the talking box and since that time he hrs no pain, neither can he talk Physicians and surgeons are said to be at a loss as to how to get the burr from the throat Price is about 18 years of age.— Royal Center Record.