Dayton museum counts on interest in bizarre items

Wednesday, August 18, 2004

DAYTON, Ohio -- A tattered leather shoe blown off a woman's foot after she was struck by lightning. A light bulb still filled with water from the 1913 flood. A gas meter speared by a stick of wood from a tornado in 1974.

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