Insures Prize Hen for $5,000 Policy

1919

Washington Chicken Holds World Record for Egg Production.

PORTLAND, Oregon. — It isn't every hen that can carry around a $5,000 life insurance policy, but that is the amount of insurance placed on one of the hens at the poultry show here.

This hen is a White Leghorn, owned by Dr. Tancred of Kent, Washington. She set a world's record for production by laying 300 eggs in 365 days, ended Sept. 16. This is about four times the production of the average hen, so her value in the poultry world can easily be seen.

Her owner consented to allow her to be placed on exhibition by one of the poultry feed companies, but stipulated that she must be insured for $5,000.

History of the War

1915

"When the history of this war comes to be written," is a constantly recurring journalistic phrase, as if the story of this great conflict could ever be written.

You may be fairly certain that no one under the rank of an archangel, in close touch with omniscience, will ever write the full history of the world war. Down below there isn't the knowledge, and there isn't the time. There will come sectional accounts. But if in the fullness of time a world syndicate succeeds in getting some million tons of print within covers, the public will (one hopes) be thinking of something else. Yet the literature of the war as a personal drama is the domain of the private soldier, and the best letters from the front have been written by the private soldier.

On that side of the literature of war the editor of the Book Monthly has his eye. He is a specialist on the "Epistles of Atkins," and already he has been gloating and gleaning with some thousands of soldiers' letters before him. — London Chronicle.


Magnificent Volume

The most sumptuous copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in existence was recently sent from England to a purchaser abroad. The value of the book is between $5,000 and $7,500. It has been reproduced as an illuminated manuscript on vellum, and the volume is notable as being the entire work of one artist, Alberto Sangorski, who was engaged upon it for 18 months. The title is in pearls set in gold, and the cover is embellished with 214 rubies and 36 amethysts.

Exclusive Lingerie Stolen From Line

Oakland, California, 1921

A burglar who will steal women's lingerie from a clothesline in the back yard is one of the lowest kind of thieves, according to Mrs. M. Rigelhupt, 831 East Sixteenth street. The lingerie, which was all made of silk and voile, was of exclusive patterns. Mrs. Rigelhupt had washed it and it was on the line drying. When she went out to bring in the clothes she found that all her lingerie was missing from the line. The police were notified and she values the garments at $75.

—Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California, May 18, 1921, page 2.