Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa Thursday, July 24, l902 The little 3 year old girl of JOS. MULLINS, living on the Lucas farm near the Butcher ford, seized an ounce phial of iodine Tuesday morning and drank the contents. Hastily calling up Dr. Wheeler by phone, MR. MULLINS advised him of the little one's plight and the doctor directed the giving of an emetic which was promptly administered, resulting in the upheaval of the deadly fluid, thus saving the child's life. Dr. Wheeler immediately drove to MR. MULLINS' and found the babe out of danger, although very weak and its throat somewhat burned from the double passage of iodine. To his enterprise in having a phone installed in his house, MR. MULLINS can accredit the saving of the child's life, as Dr. Wheeler is of the opinion that only the immediate administration of the emetic saved it from death. Tally one for the telephone. --DAVIS CITY LARIAT Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert

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