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port of Dos Kay as, rabaco.Tramp 3d Across The ContinentNew York, Dec. 25 —Mrs. Estby and her daughter, Clara, aged 19 years, the transcontinental pedestrians, completed the journey from Spokane to this city at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon. They left the Western city May 5, on a wager with a New York woman that they could cross the continent in less than seven months. The conditions of the wager were that each woman was to leave town with only $5 and earn their living en route. If auy sickness befell either, the time consumed by it was to be abstracted from the total time.On the way across the continent they did housework, sewing, and sold photographs of themselves. At Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. W. J. Bryan fed them and bought photographs. In Ohio they called on Major and Mrs. McKinley.«
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Friday Harbor Islander
Friday Harbor, Washington, US
Thu, Dec 31, 1896
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