BABY IN A TAR BARREL.
FISHED OUT ON A SHOVEL. Three 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-yar-old boy, almost smothered. A doctor was called, and the boy was taken to hospital, where he rapidly recovered.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 257, 30 October 1928, Page 3
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