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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

R.L. Deweese Releases Thousands of Homing Pigeons, June 1921

Carload of Pigeons Will Be Released

Salisbury, June 3—Next Saturday a solid car load of homing pigeons are to be liberated in Salisbury for a flight back to New York. There will be 7,000 or 8,000 birds in the lot, according to information received by R.L. Deweese, agent of the Southeastern Express Company, who has been asked to liberate them. Last Saturday morning Mr. Deweese liberated 300 pigeons. These were prize birds picked from a lot of 8,000 that had recently made the trip back home from a point in Virginia. An entrance fee of $25 was paid on each bird in this flight, making a total entrance fee of $7,500 on those leaving here Saturday.

From The Charlotte News, June 13, 1921

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