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Glairn Hodatis In Arizonat'*I1page, one moreAnd now has been written another I chine in that locality and seised the I Km, , ij . . (escaping dachshund with the inten- er, leaf added to the I • • ... ^ n s.,.tion of bringing him to town and sell-; Mlsomewhat volumniou- accord of * | mg him to a crrUin enterprising lo-! tocreation evolved from the fertile loom,Ci|| butcher, may have bearing on the «nt of one man's brain with threads spun : cas«from imagination and phantasy.Reference is made to the world-famed Rhinelander “Hodag, brought to public notice several*•iGeorge ad nit- the possible truth of Ihithis statement but adds to it further 'Mr by stating that when out somewhere relyenn ago 10v®r the “hogback” was attacked by* hd When it waa Aral promote 1 v E S ^ himself thrown from theShot .O il, wIn• ‘a-fore his «h-ath rt dd nmch.m _ Wandering around through cor1mn\ !m hi . autiful home m what »s.the tr,u KU forest he finally -truck barnow known Shepard - park in thi vvhat M.CIMf1| to jH. n |nko of pure pe- *♦m m.%. Jl -. — a %- :V’ Tf-.’ ' iknofaifsouthern part of the city, Just when (tedium somewhere in the vicinity ofthe picturesque waters of the Pelican j jgc}*attfbt©«i, Finally succeeding in ;1 'n th, old W|- n-. in it- onward oxtru.afinw himself from tin- oil\ terflowmils..a v« ... — |‘\T!1 a ng RlHlili .1**111 VIII- tillsto Wau-au and other neighbor- j,ath h(. foUm, tlu, tra,i ami arrivedvillages. safely at home in Rhinelander. If11\- one f it- most r ml interior you want x c! Hie itton of thi- expert0 decorations the Rhinelander lire de- ......has adorning one of thev partition twall*, number one engim hf use, an » xoolU nt il j-.enting of the original fl da*. f- tht fa. i!lt; hru-h of James Clark, one of the most efficient_ .... : ^ _ * ✓ me u-t ask (icorue and he ''ill «how\ u the oil -om ared trouser- bearingposterior evidence of the time whenhe sat down toterofastrone of tne mostmend er f th* down-t wn divisionof the department.Naturally the attentionNIi f a i -111 r lt;wis called to this picture nnd when desired Chief Henry Haron i- notaverse to delivering a brief lecture concerning the strange beast or reptile. a- one’s fanc\ may allocate it. Whatever you ma\ term it, Rhinelander’s In*d.ig nonear- to huvi_ _..... __ rest on his waythrough what i- occasionally calledRockefeller swamp. ra|The appc trnnct of t'm Vrinnn ho dag. a- oven h\ the visitor who gave k ratne a- Prince nnd stated thatheaappearscompetitor in torrid Arizona.\ visitor to thi- cit\. accompaniedby his wife, were callers at enginehouse number one the first of thewas a member of the volunteertin f V gal. -» in.I at ract o n.: att rney in the state of\r - n. h* n i\ n--t he disbelieved,V\n- to the effect that the animal wa-much like the ordinary oa.h-hund }tuitwweek nnd upon seeing the painting atonce turned to his wife and excited*!ly exclaimed: “Well, if there isn’t the old hodag. This sure does look like h.me.** \«ked for explanations he a-serted that in Arixona there actuallyexists a living prototype oflander** curiosity*. From whence they tcame and how they arrived on the banks of the Rio Grande is. of course own. but it is said they firstpup with a paehydernius hide fromwhich protuded lumps of from one totwo inche- high, as did the original h *dag Ph. Arizona specimen - hairless, with the exception of a rutT around the neck which when thebeast is excited, becomes as -tiff andHitivMisharp as porcupine quill*.The Arixona hodag.. *aid the visi-vitor, ha- lost the fierceness alleged tohave been poilfttdl by the Rhinelander animal and has lieome moreless of111Clmade their appearance about the time of the Hodag exploitation in Oneidacounty, Wisconsin.tine possible solution of the prob lem comes in the admission that onrr ie-- lt;r a nuisance it having become neces-ary in certain cities on the Rio Grande river to habilitate from its police force a squad of so-called “hodag hustlers’’ whose duty it is to keep the streets and sidewalksfor trafli*. Housewives alsoIII!nl.shtWlclaim that thev are delayed in theirevening. Just as the twilight A lingering shadows marked the transition from daylight to darkness, Claude, the growing son of the elder Shepard,was sent by his father to the hdl»j side root cellar in which the mythi- i cal animal was confined, to feed him with strips of raw flesh, as was imminently proper for such a fearsome creature. I’pon opening the door far enough to permit the throwing in of ( the ration some sort of an animal i slipped past the boy and maili escape to the southwesthousehold duties by the neees-dty ofswe eping baby hodag* from underneath their feet.The New N.-rth doesn’t vouch foranC,MMSranything of which it does not have personal knowledge, but the \ri;*« na visitor, being a member of a voiun*skHiVItecr fire company and a practicing attorney in Arixona not being a king is at least a Prince and as such must bebelieved.\c:lpromised to retire when he had made a million, and heA Boston manThe only explanation to be made by C.laudt* was that something having the appearance of a full grown dachshund dog had evaded him and rapid-jly disappeared in the darkness. How-ever, the alleged fact that George Williams happened to lie taking atrial pin in hi- embrvo flying ma-“kepthis won!. We are sometimes tempted to make a similar vows|MirJ.A§1HOld Time PartyIIand DanceS\AT
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Rhinelander New North
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Aug 14, 1930
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CA 16 Oct 2022
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