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Thursday, September 8, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Thursday, July 11, 1737

A letter from Timothy Forecast in 1737. Sir, Think myself oblig’d to acquaint your Worship, that at my first coming into these parts, our inhabitants were few, and for some years after the country was seated, we were most grievously infected with wolves and bears, to the great perplexity of myself and neighbors; but thanks […]

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New York’s Blind Lioness.

Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, July 30, 1901

She is Very Fond of Her Keeper and Knows Him From All Others. The Central park menagerie at New York has a great African lioness that is totally blind. One would scarcely guess it from her appearance, however. She walks up and down her cage just the same as the other members of the cat […]

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Birds and Fish

Thursday, September 1, 2016
Published in the The New York Gazette, New York, New York on Friday, March 22, 1737

We hear from the upper part of James River that because of the severity of the weather that large flocks of wild fowl were froze to death; and since the ice has been gone, great numbers of fish have been thrown upon the shore dead. The like has not been known in the memory of […]

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