When Mrs. Victor Style of El Paso left her 3-year-old son Juan at home alone while she was at work downtown, the chickens pecked his face as he was playing in the yard. So the other decided the thing to do was to lock the child instead of the chickens in a chicken coop. Neighbors became so indignant that one of them offered to adopt the child. [Part of the last line is obscured in the newspaper so I can’t see whether Mrs. Style gave her consent to the adoption.]
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1925. To see a photo of Juan inside the chicken coop, go to:
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073201/1925-09-19/ed-1/seq-1/
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