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In the Driftway
November 5, 1930 issue

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Pigeons used for racing are to be banished by the new ordinance from their penthouse lodgings. But these blueblooded birds could by no stretch of law be classed as undesirable neighbors or as nuisances. They are bred from stocks that are centuries old, are fed on imported grains, and have traditions that go back to Solomon and to the Greeks and Persians. Names of the winners of the Olympic games were sent to distant cities by carrier pigeons. But if these pigeons have no masters to drive them on the kidnapping flights, the skies will be bare of their circling wings and the city more than ever just a place of brick and mortar.

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PIGEONS; PENTHOUSES; HOMING pigeons; OLYMPIC games (Ancient); ANIMAL feeding; GOVERNMENT policy
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