Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Darwin Award for 1889 ?

Genealogy research inevidably necessitates one into going through old newspaper death notices and obituaries.This one is from a Sault Ste Marie Michigan newspaper February 23 ,1889 :
Hart Williams of Milo, Kalamazoo County, who died Thursday, is believed to have come to an untimely grave on account of his decidedly human habit of eating wooden toothpicks.His stomach was opened and lots of little bits of wood found in it, with no other apparent reason for his death.

1 comment:

Trudy said...

"Decidedly Human Habit" ?? hmmmm