Word: coaxer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent most of his 48 years cooped up in an office as a clerk in the Louisville office of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Jacob Justin Keifer got his start in pigeon breeding at 13, when he invested savings of $5 on two pigeons of which one was a "coaxer"-handsome cock capable of attracting stray females to his cote. For a few years after that Jacob Keifer tried raising and racing homing pigeons and at 19 went to Texas to make his fortune. When he went home to Louisville, he married and settled down to pigeon-rearing in earnest...