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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1909
Page
11
A father, clutching a fishing pole, overbalances a cranky boat and falls overboard while his baby clings to a three inch fish. The struggle includes a swim with clothes on, crowding hotel onlookers, and the baby’s triumphant cry I got a fist as onlookers tow them to shore.
The narrator recounts a summer with tonsillitis across the Black Chicken era family and a two and a half year old boy. After near-drowning, balcony mishaps, and a shower ordeal, the infant survives as the nurse returns. Harold and Bess raise a tailless little black chicken saved from kitchen fires, which wins a ten dollar prize at the fair, proving that unlikely birds can triumph.
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