PINS SWALLOWED
YOUNG GIRL’S MISHAP PA NEW PLYMOUTH, Dec. 8. Swallowing five pins while playing this afternoon, Lynette Anne Russell, the four-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs W. Russell, of New Plymouth, was rushed to hospital, where an X-ray revealed the pins in her stomach. Her conditions was reported late to-night to be satisfactory. The mishap occurred at the home of the child’s grandmother, Mrs P. Brooks. While Mrs Brooks was occupied with sewing, the child placed some pins in the cap of a fountain pen and put it in her mouth. As she did so she had an attack of whooping cough. She ejected the cap from her mouth, but the cough dislodged the pins and she swallowed them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27259, 9 December 1949, Page 6
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120PINS SWALLOWED Otago Daily Times, Issue 27259, 9 December 1949, Page 6
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