Connecticut 1933 - The Nature Yarns That Made Winsted Famous

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L.T. Stone, the likely author of the North Adams Daily Transcripts stories about the wild man, was well known for his fantastic yarns, as this 1916 story from the Washington Post (yes, THE Washington Post) demonstrates.  Because Newspapers.com limits clippings to squares or rectangles, you often find unrelated stories, like this burglar deterrent.  However, the benefit of this limitation is that you can see that these wild men/women and gorilla stories were reported with everyday news, not banished to pages devoted to odd stories.