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Show BRIDE. SWALLOWS PIN Iowa Girl Narrowly Misses Losing Hot Chance, Because Miss Kva Ballard of 22S North Moore street, one of Ottumwa's. (Iowa.) many spring brides, was possessed pos-sessed of the eternal feminine habit of holding pins in her mouth, a wedding verged dangerously near a tragedy, but culminated happily in her marriage to Arthur Guyle, at the house for which it was announced. Surrounded by an admiring group of her closest girl friends, she was displaying her wedding gifts. In the midst of exclamations of delight and onvy a now gift arrived. The package was daintily bound with whito ribbon, but inside, fastening moro accuroly the wrappings, was a pin. The bride placed tho pin in her mouth while she unfastened unfast-ened the remainder of tho wrappings. A few moments ln.tor in the midst of her excitement and screams of delight over the gift, her friends wore startled by a gasping cry of horror from the bride. The pin lay painfully lodged in hor throat. A physician was at onco summoned sum-moned and an X-ray photograph taken of the locality- where the pin had stubbornly stub-bornly taken up its abode. In nerve-racking nerve-racking suspense they awaited tho verdict ver-dict which happily located tho pin in tho region of her tonsils and it. was removed re-moved in time for tho coroinouy. |