Word: ov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
Birds. With 8,000 barnyard birds clucking & crowing, with poultry experts from 61 nations present, H. R. H. the Duke of York opened the World Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...