On This Date in Minnesota History: January 3

January 3, 1916 – Humane society officers are today worrying about what to do with a golden Chinese pheasant that wandered through St. Paul’s business streets at random, and finally lit in the St. Paul gas office. How the bird got here is unknown.

The Bemidji Daily Pioneer; “Today’s Northwest Oddity”; Jan. 3, 1916; p. 1.

A golden Chinese pheasant

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