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2 stories
- The Blaine Fisherman Who Pulled Seven People Out of the Water and Never Told Anyone
Hans Nielson is 24 years old, slight of build, and has saved seven lives in ten years — two in Denmark, five around Blaine — and calls each rescue a thing 'only incidental to the life of a water toiler.'
- 120 Chinese Cannery Workers Headed North, Papers in Hand
A Portland crowd of 120 Chinese laborers left for Blaine, Washington, to cut salmon under contract—each carrying the residence certificate that might keep him out of trouble.