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TIME errs when it refers to legalized cock lighting. Cock fighting is a misdemeanor, punishable by six months' imprisonment...
...Nevada State law specifically bans cock fighting. Cock fighting is banned in Reno by a city ordinance...
...fullest days that has ever passed. It started yesterday morning when the official receiver roused himself even before the cock knew it was daylight and hastened to meet a train. A crop of photographers had been carefully informed to the second of the time the train arrived. They were at the station seven minutes before--a marvelous feat, the representative came two minutes later--still more marvelous, but the train had crossed both and arrived ten minutes early...
Relaxing from his job of being Cuba's Dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batista attended a Havana cock fight with a group of friends, including cultural Carlos Mendieta whom Batista made Cuba's President for a while...
...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...