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Sea Gulls Slaughtered for Fashionable Hat Trimmings

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 23, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 4.

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Sea Gulls Slaughtered for Fashionable Hat Trimmings

The New York Tribune says that the summer sea gull has been almost exterminated in only the last two summers; and all to supply the demands of fashion in the trimming of women’s hats. One person killed fourteen hundred in one day. More than forty thousand were killed in the summer of 1899.