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...sharing Mr. Untermyer's confidence however was Stockholder Mrs. Susie Dryden Kuser who owns 11,150 shares of Class B voting stock, and controls 8,000 in the estate of her husband, . New Jersey's late famed Anthony R. Kuser, bird-lover and Beebe-backer. Petitioning both for a receiver and an injunction restraining Fox officers from paying either Mr. Fox or his family funds of any kind, she made bitter accusations. Chief of these: Cineman Fox bought $440,000 shares of Loew's at $225 when the market was $70; bought a $19,000,000 string...
...disagreeable bird is the starling. Small, dark, impudent and noisy, its only commendable trait is a fondness for potato bugs. Most dismaying is its inexhaustible enthusiasm for reproduction. Vegetarian more often than insectivorous, starlings strip cherry trees, peck at strawberries, punch holes in lettuce leaves. Their voices are as rough as crows; they fight constantly among themselves. A nuisance already in many a U. S. town, starlings had by last week become a pest in the national capital. Washington citizens wrote letters to the newspapers. It seemed only a matter of days until some starling would visit an indignity upon...
...starlings are the descendants of a small shipment brought from England in 1890 and loosed in Central Park, Manhattan. As in the case of English sparrows, imported 1850 by the Brooklyn Institute, the birds were to be used as insect killers. So troublesome did both starlings and English sparrows soon become that 25 years ago the Lacey law was passed prohibiting the importation of any variety of bird without the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture...
...countenances no inherited austerity was yet apparent. There were also children alone, their small faces made charming by the possession of some perennial secret; and there was the picture of an Indian in his canoe on a dark river, who stared through a subaqueous gloom of trees at a bird, moving above him on white, tremendous wings. In all these canvases was the sure, lucid draughtsmanship which is Painter Brush's most notable talent and which explains, more than any other characteristic, the presence of his paintings in five important U. S. museums...
...house cat taught him [Kitten Mike] to stalk pigeons in the colonnade. Mike was set to 'point' like a dog, and the house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each cat seized a bird and carried it into the house uninjured. The house keeper took the pigeons from the cats, and in return for them gave a slice of beef or mutton and milk to each cat. The pigeons were taken into a little side room, and after they had eaten some maize...