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Touring Car Hits Sled Rider

100 Years Ago

Herald of March 11, 1921

Mahlon Over of Woodbury was injured when a touring car ran over his leg, breaking both bones between the ankle and the knee. He and Harold Stonerook had been coasting down Mill street when they coasted across the main street almost directly in the path of a car driven by Henry Grubb of Loysburg. The Woodbury correspondent wrote: “This surely be a warning to the girls and boys of our town who delight in coasting and roller skating on the streets.”

Richard Lehman, oldest son of Edgar Lehman, north of Martinsburg, was injured when a ladder being used for trimming trees fe...

 

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