Milford News | 1929-04-12 | Page 7 | Rooster Wins Finish Fight with an Eagle |

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Date	1929-04-12
Paper	Milford News
Language	eng
City	Milford
County	Beaver
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Article Title	Rooster Wins Finish Fight with an Eagle
Type	article
Date	1929-04-12
Paper	Milford News
Language	eng
City	Milford
County	Beaver
Page	7
OCR Text	Show Rooster Wins Finish Fight With an Eagle Sarasota, Kla. Ed Zwinggil, a dairyman dairy-man near here, brought to Sarasota a story of a finish fight between a six-moiuhs-old Plymouth Itock rooster and an eagle iu which t he cock came out victorious. He exhibited the wounded rooster In support of the tale. He and his wife heard a commotion in the barnyard, barn-yard, lie said, and distinguishing a whirling melee of feathered bodies, went to investigate just us botli combatants com-batants collapsed. The eagle, measuring six feet one Inch from wing to wing tip, was dead. The rooster was badly hurt. A local taxidermist, to whom the eagle carcass was brought for mounting, mount-ing, expressed the belief that the rooster delivered a chance blow iu a vulnerable spot just as the eagle swooped down.
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