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Flashes of Life: Backyard Chickens and Early Pardons
In New York Mrs. Witteman faces a five dollar fine with suspended sentence for keeping six chickens without a health permit. Ada Blough of Palmyra becomes the first woman to pass a state chick sexer exam. Betty Ihler of Idaho, age two, requires repeated throat surgery after a peanut obstruction. Daisy Himm Parsley, 17, pardoned for bigamy after six months of an 11 year sentence, plans to join a soldier husband on a ranch.
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New York
Mina Witteman
Long Island City
Health Department
Henry A. Soffer
Harrisburg
Ada F. Blough
Palmyra
Salt Lake City
Betty Ihler
Filer
Idaho
Boise
State Pardons Board
Daisy Himm Parsley
Bigamist