Ella Pendle dies from eating raw lima beans, 1901
Lakewood Citizen 11 Oct 1901
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Mary Willits nearly poisoned, 1879
New Jersey Courier 24 Apr 1879 Mr. Mary P. WILLITS, a lady living at Tuckerton came near losing her life on Tuesday of last week by taking a dose of poison. She was troubled with erysipelas and swallowed a portion of a preparation intended for outward applications. Medical attendance arrived just in time to save her life.
According to the New Jersey Mirror of 15 Jul 1875, A short time since Hezekiah Haines, a farmer residing in Charleston, Burlington County, had three fine dogs poisoned, which died. How is that the totality of the story? Here in New Jersey last week, someone killed a dog, supposedly by throwing it out of a truck. Pages and pages of newsprint have been filled over it. And here's three dogs getting poisoned--it doesn't even speculate as to whom, or why, or any other information, like it's the most commonplace thing ever in 1875.