A Note From 1897 About A Snoring Drunkard

From the June 5, 1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Eva Churchill, 3 years of age, a daughter of James Churchill, a Canarsie bayman, died yesterday afternoon at her house on Rockaway Avenue, near Avenue L, Canarsie Grove, from shock and convulsions caused by fright at the snoring of a drunken man.”

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