{"id":400,"date":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=400"},"modified":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:56:32","slug":"riley-stalcup-injured-by-exploding-fruit-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/05\/10\/riley-stalcup-injured-by-exploding-fruit-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Stalcup Injured by Exploding Fruit Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Originally posted 25 MAR 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, August 3, 1899, p. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HURT BY EXPLOSIVE FRUIT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English, Indiana, Aug. 3-Riley Stalcup, a merchant and retired politician living near Fargo, was severely injured by the explosion of a large jar of preserved fruit. Mrs. Stalcup had lost several jars of last year&#8217;s fruit and concluded to throw the whole collection away, but Stalcup preserved them to be used in certain experiments he was making. An eight-gallon jar exploded at least disfiguring him for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br>Special Thanks to Randi Richardson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted 25 MAR 2012) Elkhart (IN) Daily Review, August 3, 1899, p. 1. HURT BY EXPLOSIVE FRUIT English, Indiana, Aug. 3-Riley Stalcup, a merchant and retired politician living near Fargo, was severely injured by the explosion of a large jar of preserved fruit. Mrs. Stalcup had lost several jars of last year&#8217;s fruit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}