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  1. The Professor Who Gave Colour Photography Away for Free

    An Oregon experiment-station scientist stumbles on a way to fix true flower colours permanently in a photographic print — then walks into Seattle and refuses to patent it.

    Dec 1, 1902The RanchSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

  2. A Hanging in the Armory: The Unpopular Corporal and the Men Who Stuffed His Uniform

    Company E turned a grudge into theatre — an effigy rigged with an electric-light wire, a pair of odd-coloured glasses and a chalked gravestone — and a military court may follow.

    Aug 13, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyScandal

  3. A Minister Takes a Geologist's Hammer to Genesis

    Rev. Napoleon Hoagland tells a packed hall that the rocks do not show six days of creation, and that reason — not an infallible book — is the believer's best authority.

    Oct 13, 1891The Olympia TribuneOlympia, Thurston CountyStrange But True

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