Word: pigeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Street names can be changed.-ED. Andree's Pigeon...
...generation is a long time to remember but I well recall going up in the air when the papers told of the shooting of Andree's carrier pigeon. The little messenger had flown 150 mi. toward home and came to rest on the mast of a ship whose captain shot him. At -the time I wrote a vitriolic article for a local paper condemning the brutality of men in general and of that captain in particular. As that ship proceeded on its way it met another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with...
...starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more smartly handled Enterprise. Again the winner, Skipper Vanderbilt sailed his tall white sloop across...
...July 11, 1897 the Oernen (Eagle) with its three occupants cast off from Danes Island, Spitsbergen, sailed north, was lost forever. Of a number of carrier pigeons taken along, one made its way home with a cheery message despatched 12 hr. after the takeoff. A number of message-buoys were also recovered, one as late as September 1912, but only two contained notes, both written prior to the one borne by the pigeon. Since November 1897, numerous expeditions have gone in search of the Andree party. It was rightly assumed that the winds had borne them far east...
...Reputed world's champion pigeon flight: From Vanceboro, Maine, to San Antonio, Tex. (2,100 airline miles) by an army pigeon...