House Cat is Nearly Baked

1914

The Family Pet Slept in Oven of Cook Stove and Is Nearly Burned to Death

Waynesboro, Pa. — M. B. Ayers, Hamilton avenue, Waynesboro, almost cooked a new dish at his home.

When he retired at night he left the oven door of the kitchen stove open. To get away from the cold the family cat crawled into the oven and there curled itself up for a sleep that lasted all through the night.

When Mr. Ayers went downstairs in the morning to stir up the fire he closed the oven door. The cat slept on and made no protest. Then Mr. Ayers turned on the drafts and thrust the poker into the bed of coals, and in a short time he had a good fire going.

He heard the mewing of a cat, but he couldn't see a cat, and he fancied the animal might be on the outside. But the cat grew more persistent in its mewing and added a tone of anguish to it, and then Mr. Ayers bethought him of the oven. He opened the door and the cat sprang on to him, almost knocking him off his feet.

The animal was burned terribly. Its feet were badly charred and its body was almost baked. It is still living and is on the road to recovery.

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—The Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, July 17, 1913, p. 3.

Man Lives Without Stomach — Predigested Food

1909

Man Lives Without Stomach

NEW YORK — William Smith, whose stomach was removed three weeks ago in the Bushwick Hospital, Brooklyn, has left the institution cured, the surgeons say. There is no reason why Smith cannot live, it is said, and his only handicap will be that he can eat nothing except predigested foods.


Stove Discharged Rifle

EVANSVILLE, Indiana — A stove, which Mrs. Mary Gregory was trying to set up this afternoon fell against a loaded rifle in the corner. The weapon was discharged and Mrs. Gregory was shot in the abdomen and is said to be dying tonight.


Whisky is 86 Years Old

SPENCER, Indiana — Workmen engaged in tearing down the old Owen County courthouse found a gallon jug of whisky, 86 years old, buried in a crevice in the foundation stones under the building. The liquor is in possession of the county auditor, who has purchased a spoon preparatory to dealing the liquid out to county officials and others.


Hurled From Auto Into Tree

NEW YORK — When a speeding automobile struck a tree near Coney Island five men were in the machine, but after the accident the ambulance physicians found only four men, all of whom had suffered broken ribs or other injuries. When one of the four recovered consciousness he inquired for the fifth member of the party and a search revealed an unconscious man hanging over a limb of a tree, to which he had been hurled by the collision.

Archie Weaver Used Kitchen Stove As Safe

Decatur, IL, 1913

USED KITCHEN STOVE AS SAFE

Archie Weaver's Pile Looked Like Iron Money.

If you use the kitchen stove as a safety deposit vault or a burglar proof safe, don't leave the making of the fire in the morning to your wife. Archie Weaver, who conducts a grocery in the 2100 block North Main, having no safe in his place of business Friday night, carried home his money in a canvas bag and tossed it in the kitchen stove as the most unlikely place for burglars to look for it. It was an unlikely place for anybody to look for it and next morning a fire was kindled in the stove just as usual. After awhile Mr. Weaver thought of his cash and the fire was hastily drawn. The bag was gone and the money bore but slight resemblance to coin of the realm.

Fortunately there was nothing but coin in the bag and the heat required to reduce a beefsteak and boil coffee is not sufficient to fuse silver. The coin looked like iron money, but it was not mutilated and after Mr. Weaver had properly explained its unusual appearance it passed at par. After this Mr. Weaver will hide his money in the clock, bury it in the backyard or build the fire himself.

—The Daily Review, Decatur, IL, Oct. 26, 1913, p. 3.

Man While Afire Falls to Death

Middlesborough, Massachusetts, 1914

Took Fatal Drop when he was Pulled from Stove. Friend, Weighing Two Hundred Pounds, then Fell upon him.

Frank Taylor, sixty three years old, of Middleborough, Mass., employed at the Thomasville Stone and Lime company's plant, below Abbottstown, died in the York hospital at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from hemorrhage of the brain and fracture of the skull, sustained on Friday at 5 p. m., when with Charles Able, who was pulling him away from a stove to prevent his clothes from igniting, he fell through a door, on the second story of a shack at Thomasville, to the ground, a distance of ten feet.

The Thomasville plant had been closed for Christmas and it is said that Taylor and Able had been celebrating the day. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon they went to their room on the second story of one of the company's shacks. Taylor sat beside the stove which was red hot, and fell asleep. Able suddenly noticed Taylor's coat smoking and tried to pull him away from the stove. As he did so he tripped and both men fell through an unlocked door. There was no balcony or railing and the men fell to the ground.

Able, who weighs 220 pounds, fell upon Taylor, Taylor was rendered unconscious and remained in that state until his death. He was removed to the first floor of the shack and Dr. E. S. Stambaugh was summoned.

On examination the physician found that Taylor had sustained a fracture at the base of the skull. He was taken to the York hospital in an automobile by Dr. Stambaugh and Charles Whitman. Able sprained his right shoulder in the accident.

Taylor had been employed about the plant at different times during the last eight years. Efforts are being made to find whether he has any relatives.

—Adams County News, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1915, page 6.