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...Council of the City of Wheeling directed a reply to an article . . . wherein TIME stated that public cock fighting pits operate in this City. A copy of the Resolution is enclosed...
WHEREAS, said investigation discloses that no person can be found who knows of, or has even heard of, any cock fights within the boundaries of the City of Wheeling for the past fifteen years, or more...
...place for arts and artists that have begun to gather dust, put on a private showing which highlighted the delicacy of his bas-reliefs and reached a rare pitch of portraiture in the stubble-bearded head of General Sherman-as melancholy and implacable as the head of a fighting cock...
Chicken men can't understand why the world is against them. They argue that chickens are insensitive animals anyway, and that game roosters fare better than most common chickens, which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss...
...married the boss's daughter, came into a ?30,000 legacy and swelled it, temporarily, into a railway fortune. In Hudson's heyday, he was able to play with $120 million of Britons' money.† "There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill...