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Local notices and maritime oddity in early Weston paper
Weston weekly leader prints birth and obituary notices with charges. Captain Ingalls recounts a Maine sea serpent sighting near Monhegan during a calm voyage. The piece blends local notices, ads, and a long quoted account from the Portland Maine Journal about an unidentified carcass thought to be a serpent.
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Ingalls
Argus
Portland
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Monhegan
Seguin
Cape Ann
New York Herald
Garfield
New York Times
United States
Erasiona
Standard
Oregonian
Congressional Record
Republicana
Cincinnati
Hancock
Republican Party