Boarders Take Ill (1889)
Lydia WILDMAN keeps a colored boarding house in Chattanooga, Tenn., and has ten young men boarders. An hour after dinner, at which tainted meat had been served all the boarders, Mrs. WILDMAN and her young daughter were taken violently ill, and at last reports were unconscious. The girl and two of the boarders, it is thought, will die.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 13 September 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.