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...Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones dug up on the beach...
...lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high in the air with one hand...
...whaler, the claim being asserted that one summer he brought in five of the creatures. He is represented, with full Russian moustachies, as holding a replica of the cedar ball which the chief used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...
From the British Museum to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology has come the fifteen-foot skeleton of a False Killer whale, a species known to science until fifteen years ago only by its fossilized skull...
...quickly that one or two washings made the corset as ugly as it was uncomfortable. So in 1894 the Warner Brothers, working with Worcester's American Steel & Wire Co. (now part of U. S. Steel), presented the rustproof steel corset rib. It revolutionized the boning business, made whale-bones obsolete...