From 1862: State Items

The following are excerpts from an article published 150 years ago, appearing in the Hartford Courant on October 29th, 1862.
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Ms. Elizabeth Smith, an Irish woman recently from Middletown, while stepping into a wagon on the steamboat dock at Rocky Hill, a few days since, slipped and fell in such a way as to break her leg near the ankle in a most shocking manner, and it is hardly thought she will recover.

In New Haven, Thursday afternoon, while a session of the Sons of Temperance was going through an initiation, in the Arcade Room, a sudden consternation seized the audience at the sudden appearance of a human leg through the ceiling overhead--and a very animated leg, at that. Order was at last restored, when it appeared that a carpenter, making some repairs overhead, had stepped accidently on the plastering, and "thus put his foot" into the temperance movement.