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Pigeon Stealing in Egypt.

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 11, 1885

[Exchange]      Miss Sartorius, in her book on the Soudan and Egypt, says: “Every village has its pigeon houses, looking like great mud cones, and in the evening the owners go out and call them in. But when a man wants to get hold of extra pigeons, instead of calling them he frightens pigeons away. […]

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Pigeons.

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 27, 1882

     In a recent trip to Sparta, Wis., Messrs. R. O. Earl and C. H. Rice, of this city, indulged in pigeon hunting on a grand scale. They visited a pigeon roost and captured between 800 and 900 pigeons, nearly all young ones. They were taken with nets and are now being fattened in Waukegan. […]

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Chick Hatched By Pigeon.

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, April 29, 1914

Oak Ridge, Mich., Fancier Discovers Unique Fate of Prize Egg.      Oak Ridge, Mich., April 29.-Frank Briggs, in his pigeon loft was attracted by the “cheep, cheep” of a chick.      Mr. Briggs is a chicken fancier and became lest one of his prize chickens had escaped. He found that a pigeon had hatched an […]

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Wild Pigeons Were Once Very Plentiful Here.

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 26, 1912

Sight of Stuffed Pigeon Refreshes Memories of Old Residents Here. Tell Of The Slaughter. Millions of the Birds Were Killed a Few Years Ago. None Found Now.      The appearance in the window of the Ingalls jewelry store of a stuffed passenger pigeon that was killed fifty-one years ago has caused considerable retrospection on the […]

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