Word: hens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
...bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added: "W'hen the patient left the operating table her condition was good." But gangrene set in, because (he says) the woman was removed from the Osteopathic Hospital; because (say her relatives) Dr. Schireson bungled a needless operation. Other surgeons were obliged to amputate her legs above the knee in an effort to save...
...Vancouver, B. C. a white leghorn hen was sold for $500. She had laid 230 eggs in 234 days...
...Nebraska, a hen which had laid 165 eggs in 165 days laid another egg on the 166th day.† This egg was fitted into a jewel case, sent by air mail to President Coolidge...
...hen, hearing that, Laid...