Today’s Dark and Lonely Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
In June of 1890, 14-month-old Bertha Brown of Clear Spring, Indiana, swallowed a loaded cartridge. She died about a week later. Her local newspaper memorialized her thus:
“Little Bertha was a sweet babe, and the home will be dark and lonely for many a day, but remember, loved ones, that she was too frail a flower for this cold world, and Bertha has gone to bloom in the sunshine of Heaven.”
Culled from: GenDisasters
Submitted by: Aimee
I’ve read about kids swallowing all kinds of strange things, but a loaded cartridge is probably one of the strangest. – Aimee
Lucky the paper didn’t misprint that as “Bertha has gone boom in the sunshine…”
Oh no, that would be terrible! lol
As if it wasn’t bad enough being named Bertha. I don’t care if Bertha was in style then, it’s still awful.
Reminds me of the old joke: Father runs into the ER carrying his son and yelling “Help, Little Junior just swallowed a bullet!” THe doctor says “First thing, aim him away from me!”