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2 stories matching opportun

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  1. The Monster Canoe That Defeated a Donkey Engine

    Judge James Swan's colossal Northwest canoe sat nine months on the wharf — until one determined shipping agent and a hundred willing hands hauled it aboard the Dakota for Philadelphia.

    Apr 14, 1876Puget Sound Weekly ArgusPort Townsend, Jefferson CountyExclusion & Resistance · Strange But True

  2. Old Yank, the Sequim Inventor Who Rigged His Counter to Sting Thieves

    A correspondent visits Professor Watkins of Sequim Prairie, an eccentric mechanic whose inventions ranged from a needle-spring burglar trap to a wooden mowing machine and a windmill made to grind the prairie's wheat.

    Sep 15, 1876Puget Sound Weekly ArgusSequim, Clallam CountyLocal Legends

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