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Newspaper
Springfield Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1876
Page
4
A patchwork excerpt recounts a dramatic battle between an owl and a snake, culinary oddities, scientific notes, historical anecdotes, and scattered quotes. It weaves miscellaneous curiosities from animal careers to old time letters and weathered opinions, reflecting a provincial 18th century miscellany tone.
A log at Brown and Hails saw mill in Acton reveals a large toad embedded in wood, allegedly grown there for centuries, with a curious tale of how it survived inside the pine as workers cut the log. The piece notes skepticism about the claim and mocks the notion, while recounting a judge’s humorous misdirection in a sheep theft case and a marriage joke from a honeymoon scene.
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