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August 9, 2018



August 8, 1918

Capt. A.B. Conover and James Wilson are in town this week from Glenora. They brought with them a nice collection of furs. Capt. Conover also brought with him the skin of the glacier bear killed by Arthur Bannon of Portsmouth, Ohio, two months ago. It will be shipped to Mr. Bannon together with the skull. It is a most beautiful skin, and one for which Bannon refused an offer of $400 from a fur buyer. Capt. Conover states that this is the only glacier bear he has ever known of being killed in this region, and the Captain has probably seen as many bear as any man in British Colu...



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