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From our archives, 100 years ago

About 20 children were beginning their day’s work at the Powder Horn Bay schoolhouse near Harrison, Idaho, under the tutelage of a Miss Edwards of Spokane.

Suddenly, a deafening crash filled the schoolroom. Jagged chunks of iron stove screamed through the air.

Apparently, a disgruntled pupil had placed a stick of dynamite in the wood stove.

Several children were injured, including one whose leg was broken and lacerated by a flying piece of stove.

The children were treated for their injuries and the sheriff and prosecutor arrived to investigate.

From the medical beat: Spokane doctors were puzzling over the case of a 2-year-old boy who died of heart problems.

They discovered that “his heart, liver and stomach were on the wrong side of his body.” In addition, his heart “auricles were connected, causing it to do extra work.”

The boy was the son of a soldier serving in the Philippines. He had been staying with his grandfather in Spokane.

To all appearances, said the doctors, the boy had been “no different from his little playmates.”

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(From the Associated Press)

1922: The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt.