Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1915 — CHICKEN WEARS WOODEN LEG [ARTICLE]

CHICKEN WEARS WOODEN LEG

Hen Supplied by Its Owner With Good Working Substitute for Broken Member. Sandusky, O. —A Milan hen, according to information coming from what is considered a reliable source in the town east of here, famed as the birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, finds a wooden leg every bit as useful as the genuine article. The hen is owned by Leonard O’Dell, Lake Shore Electric conductor, who carved the leg out of a piece of hickory with a pocketknife and fastened it with plaster of paris and bicycle tape. The hen broke her leg trying to scratch gravel while the mercury was ten degrees below zero.