Word: oregon
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...than his share. Despite this, and though he is grey, not white, Tusko has been a trial & tribulation to a succession of owners. Because he ran wild in Sedro Woolley, Wash., the Al G. Barnes Circus gave him to a carnival operator. The carnival operator left him at the Oregon State Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept him in a barn in Portland, tried to teach him manners. Last month he had a cold, drank...
...confluence of the Columbia & Willamette Rivers, swam a small killer whale last autumn. There he was stranded. The press & populace of Portland, Ore. made much of him, christened him Ethelbert (TIME, Nov. 9). While the populace gaped and riflemen took pot shots, Ethelbert was discussed & debated by the Oregon Humane Society, which finally decided he would never get back to sea and therefore should be painlessly executed with dynamite. Before that could be done, one Edward O. Lessard and his son Joseph went out in a motorboat, harpooned Ethelbert, then lost him. Others grappled him up, put him on display...
...back, he landed with a new record of 6 hr. 42 min. Awaiting Pilot Wedell was a note from Hawks: "Best of luck. Jimmy. See you in Mexico tonight." But Wedell had enough for one day. Meanwhile Pilot Hawks had flown only as far as Granada, Calif., near the Oregon border, where he landed in a field, nearly unconscious from carbon monoxide fumes...
...Oregon Boundary Dispute," Prof. Baxter, Harvard...
...Oregon Boundary Dispute," Prof. J. P. Baxter, Harvard...