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UNUSUAL STORIES & EVENTS

"Outside" Tales

    The Cardiff Giant   a 19th centure hoax                                     .  Of airships and cosmic events (and speculations)
     Fish Story   a local "wanted" man constructs a wild sea tale           The Shooting of President McKinley          



 Happenings around Oregon's South Coast

     Landis   A local murderer leads lawmen a merry chase