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JOHN DAY, Ore. (P) – Two towns lost electrical power and a house caught on fire because a dog chased a cat Monday. The chasing took place on the Clark Morris Ranch, three miles west of John Day. The cat ran up a power pole, and then: A power line swung against the Morris telephone…
GASTONIA, N.C., Feb. 18 (AP) – Sheriff’s officers arrested a 35-year-old plumber here on whisky charges this weekend after they found in his home a kitchen spigot that would mix its own drinks. Officers said an ordinary 42-gallon water tank outside the kitchen contained moonshine whisky. A pipe led under the kitchen sink to a…
This is the story of the last person on earth, as told by a trash pile left on Henderson Island. Of course it’s a story from ancient history, so you and I know he wasn’t actually the last person, but he didn’t know that. He had every reason to believe he was the only human left, and he…
Day and night for more than 72 hours a beautiful black and white shepherd dog has kept vigil at a white post on the Pacific highway eight miles south of Salem near the Alder Springs club, Roy McIntire, who lives nearby, said Wednesday. Evidently waiting for her owner, she eats the meals McIntire feeds her…
ATLANTA, May 10-(P)-A little girl named Flowers went toddling among the flowers going sniff, sniff, sniff. And when Mary Beth Flowers came to the roses, she took a great, big sniff, just about the biggest sniff that could be sniffed. The little Miss Flowers, age 18 months, started crying and ran into the house. Her…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21 (AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes. The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects…
In 1942, a forest ranger discovered a lake full of human bones high in the Himalayans. And when I say Roopkund Lake is full of human bones—the remains of around three hundred people rest in the lake water. The area is remote. Before a lake packed with dead folks was discovered, the only people who…
In 1963, a man in Derinkuyu, Turkey, couldn’t keep his chickens from disappearing. The chickens were kept in an apparently safe location; his basement. No wild animals, no place for the feathered beasts to hide, right? So where did they go? One day he entered the basement in time to see a fluffy feathered rear…