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Oscar Edwards, 55, Dies of Exhaustion Hunting Deer, Sept. 29, 1926

Hunter Dies of Exhaustion

Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 29 (AP)—Oscar Edwards, 55, a deer hunter who has been lost since yesterday morning in the swamps of New Hanover county, is dead, the victim, the authorities said, of heart failure. He is believed to have died during the night from exhaustion in an attempt to get out of the swamp in which he was lost.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1926

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1926-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/

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