The Lamoni Chronicle
December 9, 1909

Hat Pin Kills Steer.

J. S. Teale, a prominent farmer and stockman living about four miles northwest of Lamoni found one of his 1200 pound steers dead in his feed lot last Thursday. The steer had been on full feed in the lot for about three months and had been in good healthy condition. Mr. Teale cut the steer open and made a careful examination to find if possible the cause of its death, and was surprised to find a hat pin stuck in the steer's heart. It is not known how the steer could have got hold of the hat pin, but it is supposed that it in some way got into the corn, and then into the feed box, from where the steer swallowed it in eating the corn.

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