Raleigh, N.C., June 7 (By the Associated Press)—Dr. F.M. Register, chief statistician of the State Board of Health, brings back to Raleigh reports of two peculiar incidents occurring in Northampton County, which prompts a local paper to ask if the millennium is at hand.
Last Thursday, according to Dr. Register, a brindle cat who makes her home in the store of Charles Hasty in Northampton County became the mother of four kittens. That same night the feline went out and fetched in four infant mice. The kittens and mice now suckle together, watched over tenderly by the mother cat.
A few days ago a hen hatched out 12 biddies, the like of which had never been seen before in Northampton County. The chicks have four wings instead of two and have been given the name “Boarding House Broilers.”
From the front page of the Fayetteville Observer, June 7, 1922
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