Thomasville, May 11—Mrs. J.L. Brinkley, a highly esteemed woman of the western part of town, met with a serious accident this morning as she was engaged in boiling lye in a pot in her back yard. She had made a small opening in one end of a can of lye and placed the can in the pot adding the required amount of water and other ingredients, to make soap. When the mixture became hot and as she was leaning over stirring the contents with a stick, as is the custom, the can exploded, casting the hot stuff into her face, over her hands and arms and partly on her feet.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, May 12, 1926
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