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WSL Librarian Solves a Starvation Heights Mystery

WSL Librarian Solves a Starvation Heights Mystery

WSL Public Services Librarian Kim Smeenk has contributed some data to the lore of Starvation Heights, and corrected a century-long standing error. In our Washington Reads a few years back we included this work, which will help summarize the setting: Olsen, Gregg. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest. In 1911 in Olalla, Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard, with no medical training, opened a sanitarium where she practiced her fasting cure. Patients…

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Comedy Works in Threes

Comedy Works in Threes

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Somewhere long ago I read a quote from the late great Larry Fine, the “Stooge in the Middle” of the always underestimated Three Stooges. He said something to the effect that real comedy always works in threes. Either in timing, or in personalities. Library cataloger’s note: I wonder if this where the AACR2 “rule of three” came from– a Stooges fan in the rulemaking woodwork?…

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Georgetown Voters Unfair to Dr. Fehr

Georgetown Voters Unfair to Dr. Fehr

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Pennsylvania-born Dr. Albert Henry Fehr appears to have arrived in the then independent city of Georgetown, Washington around 1908, at age 36. He specialized in horses, and even had a patent in 1899 on a toe-weight for equines. In 1906 he was a one-day national news sensation when he blew the whistle on a horse he was ordered to drug in order to fix a…

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