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Read more: Was it an Airship?-Spokane Chronicle- -Spokane, Washington- -Saturday, October 8, 1898- -Page 2- A Huge Object, Far Up in the Air, Sails Over Spokane SHINING LIKE A BIG STAR. Mrs. I. S. Kaufman, an Unimpeachable Witness, Describes the Strange and Startling Visitor. A real air ship is reported as having been seen flying over Spokane by reliable people…
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Read more: How a Hunter Foiled a Desperate Bear-Boone County Record- -Bellefonte, Arkansas- -Friday, January 12, 1872- -Page 3- A Fight for Survival He went out for squirrels but found something much bigger. Too stubborn to be eaten, Mr. Hamilton, of Missouri, recounts his story of resourcefulness and triumph in the face of death. Bear hunting is not always the pleasantest kind of…
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Read more: Shot To Death (part 3)-Natrona County Tribune- -Casper Wyoming- -Thursday, February 10, 1898- -Page 1, Continued on Page 8- Recap Last time, on Shot To Death, the jury could not agree on a verdict. They went back and forth many times, but everybody was flaky and indecisive, so they left the decision to the next jury. A new trial…
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Read more: Shot to Death (Part 2)-Natrona County Tribune- -Casper Wyoming- -Thursday, January 27, 1898- -Page 1- Recap It was November 1897, Mr. McRae was in some trouble, with a trial date set for January 17, 1898. He was accused of perpetrating a suspicious murder, shooting and killing Robert Gordon, his very own employee, while another man, Peter Keith, slept just…
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Read more: Shot To Death (part 1)–Natrona County Tribune– -Casper Wyoming- -June 3, 1897- -Page 1- Robert Gordon Shot in the Side by a Rifle Sunday Morning Last Sunday morning at about 7:30 o’clock in Kenneth McRae’s sheep camp, about sixty miles from Casper, Robert Gordon, a young man about 27 years of age, met with his death by the discharge…
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Read more: ALARMING!–The Acorn– -Woodstock, Vermont- -Wednesday, May 1, 1872- -Page 2- ALARMING! From a distinguished scientific gentleman connected with one of our most prominent literary institutions, we have the following very remarkable statement. During the last two storms on the chromosphere of the sun, it was estimated that 1956 trillions of cubic feet of hydrogen gas…
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Read more: An Act of Heroism–Natrona County Tribune– -Casper Wyoming- -Thursday June 3, 1897- -Page 3- Jim Hemsworth was a plucky hero. In fact, he did survive, and went on to receive not the Victoria Cross, but a medal from the Royal Humane Society of Canada. -Jim Hemsworth, the hero of the Young America Mine, who saved the lives of…