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> From: Met History
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:13 PM
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> From The New York Times, December 12, 1904 
> 
> Girl Attacked by Weasels 
> She Fights Them for Fifteen Minutes and Wins At Last 
> 
> Lincoln Park, NJ -- As Jennie Vreeland, fourteen years of 
> age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Milton Vreeland, was 
> returning to her home from the village late yesterday 
> afternoon she was attacked by two weasels.  Only with great 
> difficulty did she succeed in beating them off. 

Don't quit with the December 12 paper. Please do keep checking from
about December 26 through about, oh say, February 6 or so. Just to see
if the reporter was any good with a follow-up on her subsequent
contraction of rabies.

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Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.   "Dagnabit Muskie, who dropped
Raleigh Historic           the cotton pickin' curtain on
Districts Commission       my toe bone?"                 
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919/890-3678

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