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...Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Overton put a cocklebur marked with a red string in Edwin Woods's automobile, found the bur later on Mrs. Overton's dress, shot Edwin Woods five times, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...Poplar Bluffs, Mo., one Ellis Haiden, tough-palated, raked cockleburs off his mittens with his teeth. One cocklebur, three-fourths of an inch long, skidded along his tongue, down his throat; lodged in his right lung. St. Louis doctors got the bur out with a bronchoscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cocklebur | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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