Ionia County MI Archives News.....Dried By The Stove, Portland Boy Terribly Burned by the Explosion of Turpentine January 8, 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Johnson McDowell texas26@gmail.com April 26, 2009, 2:10 pm Grand Rapids Press January 8, 1902 Portland, Mich., Jan. 8. - Frank V., the eleven year old son of George Simon, was terribly burned last night by flames from turpentine. He had been in a hardware store cleaning his trousers and later stood by a hot stove to dry them. The flames were smothered after repeated efforts, but not before the lower half of his body was literally baked. He will recover. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/newspapers/driedbyt171gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.0 Kb