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KEYESPORT HAS CHAMP, DUCKMerchants Offer $2.50 Pone for Finish Battle With Rooster.Carlyle, III., July 10.—Sharp MC-Tllstor, a well-known merchant of Keyesport, owns a big white duck which he thinks can whip anything in the fowl line that walks on two legs. Thus far it has vanquished all comers in short order and is undisputed champion of Keyesport and vicinity The owner of the duck has a little sporting blood in his veins and is willing to back up his Judgment with the coin of the realm. In a signed article in a local paper he says. “I will give a purse of $2 60 for a rooster that will whip my big white duck **He is so confident of the fighting qualities of the duck that ho is even willing to make It a little better. The duck can even whip a dog of ordinary size. It fights bulldog fashion, that is, when It gets a good hold it stays there A rooster soon succumbs to the death grip. {
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Moline Evening Mail and Journal
Moline, Illinois, US
Sat, Jul 10, 1909
Page 6
Full Page
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