The Detroit times., 1910-06-14
You Want Your
~ Or Girl to Suffer
Like Frank Parkos Did?
Foledo Lad. Who 10 One Of Few
To Recover From LoekJaw,
TsiIs He story In Time To
Make Many Fourths
Sane.

80. who recovered iTom ooA'
You are the object, Of course in
NJ dsvoting this column today to his case
II il getting the Fourth Of July
Near enough 80 that young girls beginning to save up
rAeir pennies to buy fireworks
There are some fireworks all right that they should
There others they should NOT have
Among these is the toy pistol
Don't UNDER CONSIDERATION permit your son or dausn'
81 handle of deadly things this Fourth
That is what Parkos' story says to you
See II Won would care to have with YOUR BOY the one to
tenit
Here it is
aEverv ONE Of NV muscles achd make the slightest move
without terrible pain.
81 couldn't hold up my couldn't twist my head oouon'
open my mouth Ny legs and fingers cramped
l sv.rv.binp that was going on but the other
didn't happened when heard somebody say "0u'
get well
@Every once in while got terrible jolt in my chest
could tell when one these s and got could fix
myself so Of them would be stopped
II can't tell how stopped jo stopping snt the
right word because Of the jOlt along would
come one that couldn't keep times strong
il not stronger, than all hadn't taken
first these seconds seemed to
me they kept coming have learned since they lasted
about weeks
81 had nothing eat during weeks but didn't want
thing Then longer times between them
they during the fourth week the time between the
% longer finally they disappeared Three weeks
after discharged from the hospital
expect coming Fourth July but certainly won't
use any blank cartfzases strong for noise more
The % boy speaks the awful convulons attendant in
such the victim until he vel
comes death physical suffering Of medicine don't
know Of it
How it happened story his left index finger in
front muz pistol discharged and the wad buried in
the finger This Sunday night
With anseptc possess and asked
Q for wash the wound.
The man heated water wound well he could
and poured peroxide hydrogen Then he told the boy to keep it
clean with peroxide big mistake made
THE BOY SHOULD HAVE GONE IMMEDIATELY TO PHYSICIAN
THE MANS TREATMENT AS FAR AS 1T WENT BUT IT
DIDN'T FAR ENOUGH.
Franks story here goes
Thursday the Fourth tried to had before
had wind to amount to anything
ghness chest didn't think much Of that
until Friday when began to hghtnes when stood still
THEN NOTICED THAT TEETH WERE GETTING CLOSER THAN
USUAL AND THAT MY JAWS DIDN'T WORK VERY GOOD
81 couldn't use my hands easily before and neck be-
gan swell and get stiff.
CAN keeping the wound clean and using ave on it to
keep it from becoming
Saturday move anu mone Aaue n so W
She thought cold All could do to lie in bed began
suffer very much
Sunday mother got she had between
my teeth to keep them apart
would have the hospital He going to come
back and hospital bernaw called the ambu
lancea and had me taken right away
thing hospital did cut fin
and out That's what caused all thu
trouble"
Franks story is the plea o SANE Fourth
made it every
believe but they not yet enough
There Fourth the pistol has been
out Of reach Of the child.
quit shooting blank cartridges in their revolve
and fathers Detroit their boys girls
ocaw depends much the the Of Frank Pako
impresses them