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Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
...Devers. Devers halls from the city of brotherly love and has endeared himself to the men in his company one command by such tricks as bringing them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina in C Entry Chase has you puzzled, blame it on Kelly Hunt, pride of the Lone Star State...
Featherless Errand. For 18 hours through a howling Italian blizzard a carrier pigeon labored to deliver this message from a snowbound British division to Army headquarters: "Nothing to report...
...Even though Kiska was cleaned out to the last carrier pigeon, "foreign reports" indicated that the occupying Americans had to fight bitterly for three weeks against a spirit army which moved in from Attu. In the South Pacific, too, Japanese spirits "have tangled with the enemy, causing many of them mental derangements and others to kill themselves as a result of nervous breakdown and morbid fear...
There was once a salmonellosis epidemic from a pigeon-egg pudding...