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Peculiar Ears and Earliest Tales From Far Worlds
A chaotic column mixes medical tragedy of Miss Cynenxa Berp in California with eerie desert sound phenomena reported by travelers in Asia, a long-lost boy found in Wisconsin, a farmer swallowing a silver dollar, a huge adder incident, a clever cat and rattlesnake duel, a blind child’s keen memory, a pipe smoking poodle, a Martinsville inheritance note, a Jersey City banking error, a beggar’s clever ruse, and various oddities from New York to California including a dwarfs discovery and a long sleep in Michigan.
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Cynenxa Anice Berp
Yolo County
Cal
Ned
San Francisco
Miss Boyd
Yolo
Nia
Sacramento
Gobi
Thibet
Asia
Marco Polo
Savanna
N. Y
Hiram Gregg
Robert Gregg
Rock Island
Richardson
Wis
G. A. Gage
James Clemens
Athens
Gia
Clemens
Nome
W. A. Carlton
John Gerdine
Edison Perkins
Litchfield
Conn
Miss Perkins
George W. Kimble
Deckerstown
N. J
Randall's Island
New York City
Children’s Hospital
Fifth Avenue Hotel
New York
Max Somerville
Philadelphia
Paris
Martinsville
Ind
Jerry Givens
California
Jerry
Henry
Far West
White River
Givens
Treasury Department
Washington
Treasury
First Washington National Bank
Jersey City
Jersey
Howard Bailey
Newark Mutual Life Insurance Company
Berlin
Captain Kund
Hiterto
Cameroon
Africa
du Chaillu
Marcarer Kinney
Alpena
Mich
Joan Suimp
Salem County
Weaverville