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Saturday, June 24, 2023

Rowena Mason, Only 17 Months Old, Falls From Second Story Window, June 24, 1923

Little Girl Falls From Second Story

Improvement was noted yesterday in the condition of little Rowena Mason, 17-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mason, and hopes for her complete recovery were held out by the physician attending the child.

Friday the little girl miraculously escaped instant death when she fell from the second story window of the apartment in the Markham apartments on Broadway street occupied by the Mason family. In leaning against the screen placed in the window, the screen gave way to the pressure placed upon it by her weight, causing her to fall through the window and to the ground below. She probably owes her life to the presence of a line stretched beneath the window for this arrested her fall and broke its force, however, which were at first thought to be fatal.

Saturday she was reported as resting well. It was at first thought that some of her bones had been affected but the attending physician last night dispelled this fear. She suffered several hemorrhages during the day, however.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, June 24, 1923

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