Paragraph on Hubert Flynn, bitten by a rat, a St. Joseph, Missouri, newspaper, 9 Sep 1911
Record
- Date
- 9 Sep 1911
- Held by
- A St. Joseph newspaper, from Newspapers.com; the clipping posted on Ancestry ("Bit by a rat", shared by Brent Flynn, 19 Jan 2023)
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
Seen 11 Oct 2026 as a screenshot of the clipping in the Ancestry viewer; the newspaper’s name is not on the clipping.
“Hubert Flynn, eleven-year-old grandson of Justice of the Peace Flynn, after two operations at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and treatment extending over a period of four months, is finally pronounced out of danger. Last May the boy was bitten on the finger by a rat. Blood poisoning developed, and for some time it was feared he would die.”
The justice of the peace is James M. Flynn, appointed in February 1911
(newspaper-flynn-justice-of-the-peace-1911), Hubert’s grandfather.