NEWS: Accident Report, Altoona Tribune, August 2, 1918, Blair County, PA

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TAKES BI-CHLORIDE FOR HEADACHE CURE
Clay Farren, 501 Fifth Avenue, Swallows Poison Mistaken for Medicine

  Picking up a tablet he thought to be a headache cure, but which proved to be 
bi-chloride of mercury, Clay Farren, aged 38, of 501 Fifth avenue, swallowed it 
at his home yesterday afternoon and is now in Altoona hospital.
  Farren's condition is not immediately serious and he was resting fairly well 
last evening.  He was admitted about 6:30 p.m.  The stomach was washed out and 
emetics used.  Physicians were unable to determine how many grains of the poison 
the man had taken.
  Vincent Riley, aged 14, of 316 First avenue, suffered a snake bite of the left 
middle finger at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon when he was attacked by a 
black snake while seeking berries in the mountains.  He came to the hospital 
dispensary and received treatment, later going home.
  Leo J. Foster, aged 27, 810 East street, was struck by a rivet and suffered a 
possible fracture of the right great toe while working at machine shop, No. 1 
yesterday.  He was treated at the hospital.  Samuel H. Stover, aged 50, 907 
Sixth avenue, had his right little finger squeezed and badly lacerated between 
two frames at the steel shop.
  John F. Williams, aged 32, 717 Howard avenue, a crane director at the Pennsy 
steel plant, had his ankle sprained and leg contused when a car coupler hit his 
left knee yesterday.  John Antesperger, aged 28, 326 Crawford avenue, lacerated 
his right index finger while working for the Pennsy.
  Walter Yahner, aged 33, 416 Willow avenue, fractured his right fourth toe and 
Edwin Banks, aged 48, contused his right hand at the local shops and David 
Baird, aged 65, of Roaring Spring, had a lacerated left index finger which was 
also contused, dressed.  Viola Little, aged 3, of 701 Twenty-first street, fell 
and contused her left leg.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 2, 1918, page 12