Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1912 — HEN PECKS MAN’S DIAMOND [ARTICLE]

HEN PECKS MAN’S DIAMOND

Gem From Shirt Stud Vanishes In Novel Manner—Owner of Jewel Refuses to Kill Chicken. Allentown, Pa. —Because he petted a pretty white Leghorn hen during the closing hours of the Allentown poultry show, A. B. Flower, a poultry fancier from central New York state, is minus his diamond stud. , Flower came on, hoping to meet Judge Braun of Syracuse, with whom he had business. In the display from the Blink Bonnie farm was an attractive little white chicken that everybody made a pet of. During the week she had been taken out of her cage many times and allowed to sit on the shoulders of women, when she would peck at their earrings or the buttons on.their coats. Flower was much taken up with the hen, and put her on bls shoulder, when she began to peck at his diamond. He and the bystanders laughed at the cuteness of the chicken. It seems the stone was not very well fastened, and as the little hen gave it a vigorous tug tfie sparkler loosened and she swallowed it Some unfeeling bystander suggested killing the chicken/ but Flower vetoed the suggestion, saying it was his own fault, and that he had more diamonds anyway.