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The following data is extracted from Herbert Family Papers.

While the Chicago office was open, Father made many trips to that city, before the days of sleeping cars and steam-heated train. He would wrap himself in a camels hair travelers shawl and sleep in an upright position with his feet on the seat in front for four or five nights on the way in cold weather. Not once did he fail to write me a letter from Chicago on these trips. He described in detail a flock of pigeons near a window of his office which created an interest in that particular bird. This resulted later in a good flock of carrier pigeons of my own at home.

Source: Herbert Family Papers

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