BABY IN A TAR BARREL
FISHED OUT ON SHOVEL. Thre children were pushing sticks into a barrel of tar standing open by the side of a road at Hastings, England, when a woman spoke to them. “We are finding Dicky,” said one of the children. The woman called a workman, who, dipping a shovel into the tar, fished up a three-year-old boy, almost smothered. A doctor was called, and the boy was taken to the hospital, where he rapidly recovered.
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Southland Times, Issue 20633, 3 November 1928, Page 19 (Supplement)
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