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...round sum of ?10,000 ($50,000). Since then, self-styled Sovereign Harman has successfully exacted rent from the Lundy Post Office. He has coined his famous puffins & half-puffins (TIME, Jan. 20, 1930), coins bearing his likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird,'' the parrot-beaked, fat-bellied puffin. The 45 citizens of Lundy have not minded in the least. Trouble first began when a Devonshire court fined Sovereign Harman ?5 because he "did unlawfully, as a token of money, issue a piece of metal of the value of one penny [or puffin] contrary...
Investigation revealed last week that any similarly puzzled gunner who writes to Jack Miner receives in reply a long printed letter addressed to "My Dear Sir and Brother Sportsman." The letter explains why Jack Miner spends his time banding birds, requests the hunter to return the band and give a future thought to God and bird protection...
...only had the wings of a bird...
...Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Aline Hall, 22, wanted her husband to give her a fur coat. Her mother-in-law wanted a canary. The mother-in-law got a fur coat; Mrs. Aline Hall got the bird. Mrs. Aline Hall took poison, was dangerously...
...Bird...