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| 1889 | 1 |
1 story matching sight
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- The Bear Who Drank the Molasses: A Lumber Camp Disaster
A hungry black bear broke into a West Branch Lumber Company supply shed in Washington's Cascade Mountains, getting hopelessly stuck in a keg of molasses and becoming a spectacle for the workers.