Saturday, August 16, 2008

Accident to an Octogenarian.

New York, 1895

Nelson Weeks, 82 years of age, of Bay Shore, missed his footing while climbing a ladder from the cellar to his store and fell through the opening, breaking one of his legs between the hip and the knee.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 1.

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