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the pacific commercial advertiser (honolulu, hawaiian islands) 1885-1921 — sea serpent

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1902-03-18
Location: honolulu, hawaii, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the pacific commercial advertiser (honolulu, hawaiian islands) 1885-1921 · 1902-03-18 · page 10
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1902-03-18 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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... a real fine, live, large sea serpent had been cap tured and was on exhibition in the fish market. The reporters bit like one man. and in less than five minutes be gan to arrive on the scene in hacks, on foot and bestriMing bicycles. News along the front was unusually scarce yesterday morning, and a sea serpent story was like breaking coal in moth er's front room for the hungry scribes. When the reporters arrived at the tishmarket and saw that a mistake had bc-en made they grinned at each other and straightway started off and toid their friends of the finny wonder vfroin the old world." The news spread like wildfire, and in ...

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