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Dead Comes To Life

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is an excited but happy father and molher in Pittsgrove, N. J., and a wondering child and a number of astonished neighbors, says the New York Advertiser. The parents are happy because their baby was given back to them ápparently from the dead. Nobody is wondering its mother clasps it to her breast and cries over lt half a dozen t;- .ea a day, and the neighbors are asto-lsh-id to thlnk that a doctor and experienced nurse should lay the child out for burial when it was alive. The case is a remarkable one of pended animation. To all appearances the child died, and then, after being unconscious nearly twelve hours, lt cune back to life. The child belonga to Louis Erdner. Early Tuesday morning it was taken sick and a physician was summoned. The doctor treated the little one, but after a time pronounced it dea. The body was laid on a cot and covered with a sheet. The mctlMM" íheii sent word to her husb.".;i, '.-'.c.' vs at wcrk a couple of miles írom boma. On his way to the housfi in the evening Erdner stopped at the oflíce oL Undertaker Evans and ena5ísd bim to care for the body. The fathe; eelected the coflin and made all the arrangements for the funeral. About two hours later the undertaker with an ice box, arrived at the house. Instead, of finding a grief-strickenfamily the undertakaí.1 found an excited but joyful one. Shortly after the return oí the father the cb.'.M, which had previously been cold, sJ.owed signa of life and ngain became warm. The doctor wss suramoned in haste, and h9 with bv.t. '.-V.i efiort restored the chil'l. It was weak and pale all night, but yesterday it seemed to recover all of its health and was crawling about tha rooms as thoiigh nothing unusual haó iappenö (.

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register