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uorona. uaniomia4 *• vK iny C, ff. .1.)Nearly every morning as (ho inquisltlv** reporter puls his head through (ho dood of the real workroom of I'ncle Sam’s pul-and-take or?} port urn, he has noticed Hob Vraoh, deputycounty hor-. i'Ucultirral comm *.ss inner and ex-»pert bugnlogist, vigorbiKty search-1 riK through various bundles of! shrubs and bushes going through ilie mail*, Oiriosity finally got the b/tsi of the news-bound and he jtalc. !*«-Lloyd-t-—\vho' bats leU‘fehs through the stamp-cancelling machine so fast that you can’t see them. . .asked. Leo what Boh wan a-lnokiv fr*?M“Why don’t you .know? re-7)11 r7 Tire affable letter-flipper. “lie’s looking for 1 philiy-Ioobirds.“*‘Oh,’’ was the only quick comeback thzU the i. r. could figure.Curiosity in a queer critter, and can’; be downed. T»he i. r. asked mi) of the hoys around Joe Smith’s smoke house what a phil-iy-loo bird was Uke. Ail he got was a vuerry h e-haw. However, there was yMp-for-help in another direction and Friendly editors were appealed to for author!live in format ion-on-the subject* Here’s some of the results*. Larry Flint* lt;• ♦•» * •' *«•i* ♦some oi me results; latvry runt of the Sharoir, Pennsylvania Herald gives some astounding information on the subject which may greatly surprise even Hob Veaeh, bug or hirdolugiKt that he .elairm to be. Larry says;Not because I wish to gain gain credit as a 1'ieologist, but because if fs my duty to inform your readers concerning the dangerous philly-loo bird, 1 submit, the following:Two years ago I took a trip west for my health. I might nTft have made the trip. but. the lady thought her husband would be gone until--but that is none of your business! While- in Wy-mning.—1 Imd—oppiu UiMlty IT)ofHiulibtru ai .a i if tlstudy -the nature and habits of this treacherous bird.The' phiBy-loo bird is dangerous because he is the means of spreading the germ of g'unpunker-untus - an almost certain fatal disease that affects the Icvati-labi-superionis-alikanafcL the little mu*u*Ie that lifts the upper lip to the nose. You always get the disease twice at once, it is usually,’ contracted through hired girls who take the malady from ? icemen, policemen and gas meter readers.The phiHy-W)—td-rd—cnriimt—f77Thisit:CJcihnhdtlt;tlcaptured. There is only ofie known method whereby he ear) beexterminated., IT he philly-loo is ferociously fond of holes in doughnuts. He .method of eating ylqughnut holes is unique; he slips his tail' through the holes,] tjien []jdcs_ ,the -iipperidage iiraii7TTt^•Infront and feeds himself.I Walk boldly up to the philly-1 loo -bird with several doughnut .holes, set down the holes and skedaddle. The bird, to- eat the holes, must move his tail around into the proper juxtaposition. This will bring about his end.It might be said here that hi?correct name is not the philly-loo bird, but the ftlly-loo bird. It ! is from this bird that we obtain horse feat hers and colt slaw.b aT\e dadsV7tltIdttc►1VV.»hstVa\)cAnd, If that explanation don’t | satisfy you, here’s another that r comes from L. O. Johnson of Livingston, Montana, who has known his phillys, loo these many years, who writes:Your grief is small, your worries sit. but lightly upon your head, your tribulations are of smkll moment, your vale of tears, is rose-strewn if only, your thirst for knowledge is unassuaged. Out here in the open spaces where* t men are men, and women are too. I ft a modern Salome with Volstead’s £ head on a platter would be given a seat at the right hand of the president of the Kiwanlsli club - but that is another tale, so 1list to a tale of Aeadie and of the philly-loo bird who, in the days of his full, swooping flight, brought pangs of nostalgia to the tenderfoot with his plaintive, eerie evening song:The philly-loo bird is extinct.A vagrant easterner sought to surround his homestead with effete appliances and appurtonaneer of the East. Among other things which he imported .was a covey
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Corona Daily Independent
Corona, California, US
Wed, Apr 03, 1929
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