Keith Star Starts Fund to Feed Pigeons and Squirrels

From The Indianapolis Star, Wednesday, January 13, 1926:  Recognizing that pigeons in University Square must eat and there isn’t much nourishment in snowflakes, dancer Alma Neilson, this week’s headliner at Keith’s Theater, after visiting the park yesterday morning with four pounds of cracked corn which disappeared with such rapidity that no one could doubt that the birds were hungry, has turned over $10 (2024:  $181) to R. Walter Jarvis, park board superintendent, as a start toward establishing a pigeon feeding fund.  The pigeons are municipal pets, and during warm weather they never lack refreshment from park visitors, but in the winter the commissary gets extremely low.  Custodian Charles Hess will use part of the funds to buy nuts for the squirrels, too.  Even the thriftiest of these University Square creatures can’t manage to lay up much against a rainy day.  

“Keith Star Starts Fund to Feed Pigeons and Squirrels,” The Indianapolis Star, 13 January 1926, p. 10:5