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...replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield and Beading donate a hog for the study of diseases of swill-fed swine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zoos Consisting of Almost Every Known Living Organism Maintained Throughout University by Research Fanatics | 9/27/1933 | See Source »

...Morgan) and the great La Tour (Victor Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...jaguars 2 ocelots 1 puma 1 anteater with baby 1 porcupine with adopted baby 1 large land turtle (40 Ib.) 1 coati (ring tail raccoon) 1 tu-u-u (jaburi stork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Menu | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon a Cambridge policeman discovered a raccoon sitting on the top of a tree in the Yard. Somewhat disturbed by the crowd which soon collected under his perch, the raccoon removed itself in haste to the top of the Hemenway gymnasium, where for a time it appeared quite safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE-CLIMBING EXPERTS GET RACCOON ON HEMENWAY ROOF | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Harvard Yard officers called the Animal Rescue League to rid them of the disturbing influence. Tree-Climbing experts arrived shortly and finally succeeded in climbing to a point where they were able to lasso the unfortunate raccoon, which was promptly carried off to the quarters of the Rescue League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TREE-CLIMBING EXPERTS GET RACCOON ON HEMENWAY ROOF | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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