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the portland daily press (portland, me.) 1862-1921 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1894-01-31
Location: portland, maine, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the portland daily press (portland, me.) 1862-1921 · 1894-01-31 · page 4
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1894-01-31 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “sea serpent”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... and are never taken fur “sea serpents." The above rceord includes all the sea serpents of which I have seen records up to date.—San Francisco Examiner. No Oxygen in'the Sun’s At mosphere. Science has predicted that one day the fires of the sun will cool. As this cool ing process goes on, the temperature of the envelope of the body will,be affected. This latter contains, we know, great quantities of hydrogen. If at. the same Lilli", [.lb GUiJuaiuo when a certain point has been reached in the reduction of the temperature, the two gases will unite and form vapor. A greater disaster to solar system than a screen of vapor about the sun could not ...

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