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Show COLLAR BUTTON COUGHED UP BY SHERIFFS SON Object Lodged for Year in Bronchial Tube, Causing Illness Karl PlhcOCk, 1 -year-old son of Sheriff and Mrs. Richard Pincock. yesterday "coughed up" a wooden collar buton wtt H las i.ern lodged In his throat for an entire y, e.r thereby rellcxlng his throat of a lot of wear and tear and his family of a lot of anxiety. On September .t. 1921, Earl bad the collar button in his mouth and was playing and running with his brothers. lie sucked the button Into his throat. The lad told his parents of swallowing swal-lowing the button, but said that ho belli red that it was of iron. X-rav photographs were taken a few days later, but failed tO show the button In his throat, because the button wjls of wood and did not phot g;raph. The boy became 111 and developed develop-ed phsumonla. He recovered l?oin this but was always troubled by a hacking cough, whi.-h gradually undermine. I bin system, SeVeral days ago Sheriff Pincock sent his son to a ranch near Poca-tcllo, Poca-tcllo, Idaho, believing tlv.t the change might Improve his condition. This morning a small pasteboard box arrived at the sheriff's office, containing a badly worn collar button. but-ton. A note explained that the la 1 was seised I iolent coughing yesterday yes-terday which resulted in dislodfflog the bu'ton from the bronchial tubci and bringing It to light. The lad already al-ready feels better. It was said. The little wooden collar button brought rejoicing to the sheriffs Koine for there had been worry over it for an entire year |