Clipping:Reports by carrier pigeon

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Date Sunday, July 2, 1871
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The excitement in this city on the afternoon of Thursday last [when the Athletics played the Mutuals in Brooklyn] was most intense. Telegraphic reports were received of each inning at several places and at Frank McBride’s where there is no “wire” convenient to the neighborhood, they were receiving the reports from Roth’s by means of carrier pigeons. There was a large crowd present, and a black hen pigeon, who had the ninth inning, was so frightened that she would not enter the coop, while the boys were almost crazy to get the news.

Source Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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