Oban Monster Sea Serpent Tale Draws Crowd
A London correspondent reports a giant sea serpent seen near Heather Island and Oban, Scotland. Described with a 10 foot length, 11 foot girth, long dorsal fins, and horselike heads, volunteers fired at it but it emerged on shore and reportedly spoke serpent in a single word before vanishing. Observers question credibility given repeated past sightings and local lore.
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mombers
tererife
Scotland
Islay
Caledonian Hotel
Oban
Westerns Hebrides
London
dinnigan
Heather Island
Bay of Oban
Bay of Naples
Hebrides
ulgtt
Blackie
Dunolly Castle
Macdougals
Enormous engineering work to bring Baltimore water
An immense project to supply Baltimore with better water from the Gunpowder River nine miles away. A seven mile tunnel through a mountain will be the longest in America, twelve feet in diameter, with five miles in hard rock drilled by manual labor. Estimated cost three million dollars. about 1,500 workers, many of them Black laborers living in squalid cabins. The contractor cites drunkenness and liquor sales in the camps as the main difficulty, not engineering.
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Baltimore
gunpowder river
America
Fittou
FSA
Bishi
Mont S Bernard dogs saved forty lives this winter
The dogs of Mont S Bernard saved forty people during the past winter, detecting travelers on the mountains within an hour’s march and howling as soon as they sensed them, a remarkable display of canine alertness and watchdog instinct amid bitter conditions.
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Mont S. Bernard
Josiah Henson
Swansea works as metal separation scheme eyed by Ogden
Prof Wynne and experts discuss a plan to locate metal separation works in Ogden to recover metals now exported as ore and refined abroad. The Swansea underground system and its secret methods are cited as a model, with Wynne claiming two and a half million dollars in pledges and noting Denver and Omaha as peers.
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Swansea
Wynne
ahorough
New York
Ogden
te intermountain
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Denver
Colorado
maine
Omaha
Wytine
United States
Ogden Free wn
The Diamond Drill In Utah Mines
The piece describes a steel cylindrical drill with stone teeth that rotate to cut granite. End-teeth attach to a long gimlet, driven by a engine, pushing the drill into ore and extracting cores up to six feet. Diamonds wear out but can be replaced with inferior stones, and pilots expect broader use by leading mine owners.
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Utah
Queer Colorado women confront cautious suitor on the rancho
In Cache la Proulx Valley a restless woman confronts a young man who had courted her for a year. She declares she will settle matters or end the pursuit, demanding he commit to marriage or withdraw, then offers another suitor a chance at his stake. The man remains silent.
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Joseph E. Griffin
Miremelle
Cora
Belic
Butte
Aunimilt. Valley
M. T
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WILLIAM H.YOUNG
HEZEKIAH-ROAD
fontainguy
Colorado
Cache la Prowle Valley
Nobby
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