The Mystery of the Egg Within an Egg
A Richland woman discovers a natural curiosity in her poultry flock: an egg that contained another perfectly formed egg inside.
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Mrs. J. M. Breithaupt of Richland claims the laurels when it comes to hens which lay freak eggs. She has a flock of mixed birds and last week one of them laid an egg which measured 9 1/4 inches round the widest part and 7 1/4 the other way. It weighed close to 6 ounces. After boiling the egg hard it was found that inside the shell there was a perfect egg while in the center of the large egg there was a smaller perfect egg, also with a hard shell, making really one hard shelled egg within another and both perfect.
“Making really one hard shelled egg within another and both perfect.”
Local newspapers of this era frequently published 'freak of nature' stories to provide light relief from heavy war news. These stories remain a staple of small-town journalism today, connecting rural life to the sense of wonder.
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