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Last week the American Weekly retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
What the American Weekly failed to report was that Mr. Lange has been in his grave for 15 years; that his seven pet salmon trout were eaten more than 20 years...
...damages because the lake floods the edge of their 5,400-acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from all over the world. Mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would not have it at any price now." Meanwhile Union Electric Light & Power...
...finally finds him in a cabaret in South America. This time, she succeeds in convincing him that she is a good girl at heart, that they really love each other. Good shot: Garbo registering almost childishly complete happiness when, while fishing with Gable, she pulls in a small, slippery trout...
According to the Times-Call, the 7½ Ib. rainbow trout caught by Publisher Fred G. Bonfils of the Denver Post and glorified in that exaggerating sheet, was a tame trout named Elmer "known to hundreds of visitors to the Miller preserve, from whom he would accept remnants of lunch, coming half out of the water to eat out of their hands. A friendly and sociable trout was Elmer and he did tricks for the tourists including a watery rendition of 'Sweet Adeline' when his crumbs were soaked in the drippings of the picnic flask...