Rex Subbs d. 1904

SUBBS

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 10/25/2006 at 19:35:12

Emmetsburg Democrat; Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa; Wednesday, May 18, 1904

HAPPENINGS IN IOWA

Ate Too Many Peanuts.

As a result of a wager that he could eat a quart of salted peanuts at once sitting, Rex Subbs of Fairfield, aged seventeen, is dead. Death was caused by abscess of the intestines brought on by an excess of salt and peanuts.