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Show PollonTj-peiirlter J'.ihbnn. Last week Miss Mary Laughlln, a pretty " eighteen-year-old typewriter girl, of Cincinnati, died of poisoning from a most unusual cause. Her death was due to the blue ink that Is used on typewriter ribbons. A small and almost imperceptible fever blister on her lip was the means by which the death dealing substance was conveyed into her blood. The young woman, who wfis e:np!'ycd in one of Cincinnati's Cincin-nati's large business houses, a little over a week ago noticed that a small fever blister had appeared on her lower low-er lip. She had been at work at her typewriter and her fingers were stained with the blue in.k used on the ribbon. She had. also been using a blue indelible pencil, and the stain from this was also on her fingers. In trying to break the blisier Miss Langh-lin Langh-lin placed the stained linger on it, became be-came poisoned and died. |