Flashes of Life and Oddities From Across the Nation
A collection of brief vignettes reports farmers in Tally Ho harvesting fish in flooded corn rows after Flat River overflow. Near San Francisco a skunk occupies a cellar and eludes police attempts to lure it out. In Chicago women oppose male patrons at a beauty shop, tossing a stone at a window after taunts. Fort Stevens Oregon notes a souvenirs hunter toward a five pound shrapnel shell surprise.
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Associated Press
Strange Harvest
Oxford
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Tally Ho Township
Chicago
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Fort Sievens
Ore
Edgar Thompson
Oregon National Guard Coast Artilerymen
Octagon House Mystery Draws In Roddy Strutt In Town
Asey Mayo investigates a murder plot tied to Marina Lorne and ambergris found at Octagon House. Pam Frye vanishes while a nameless informer trails her for the $50,000 worth of ambergris. Roddy Strutt’s plane crash, a $5,000 check, and Nettie Hobbs’s tale complicate the case as Mayo pieces together who is implicated, while townspeople chase a stray plane and salve their curiosity.
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Marina Lorne
Quendinez
Mrrie
Pam Frye
Tim Carr
Frye
Octagon
Marina
Asey Mayo
Cape Cod
Gabby Nettie Hobbs
Pam
Peggy Boone
Nettie
Roddy Strutt
Ase
Asey
Noethe
Ascy
Netlie
Roddy
Bill Porter
New York
Providence
Quanemet
Jerry
Earl Jennings
Hell
Ike
Sly
Asoy
Oddy
Jeri
Watch Dog Satisfies as X ray Reveals Swallowed Wristwatch
Genuine Seneca Falls report describes a three year old wire haired terrier mistaken for a watch dog. X ray shows the dog swallowed a wristwatch and may require surgery. In Scottsbluff Ora Green recounts a wild fall tale as a jack rabbit caused injuries after a collision.
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Seneca Falls
N. Y
Scottsbluff
Ora Green
Green
Jack
Big Spring gushes 400 million gallons daily in Missouri park
The state geological survey reports increased rainfall has raised the flow of Big Spring in Big Spring State Park, four miles south of Van Buren, Missouri, to about 400 million gallons a day. The report notes the spring’s tip responds to gravity and that removing it alters the growth direction.
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Kainstavelt Spring
Suudy van Buren
State Geological Survey
Big Spring
Big Spring State Park
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Mrs. John Conci
Frank Kennedy
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