Government Admits. ...Sea Serpents Exist!

The Buffalo Courier

Sunday, March 12, 1899

Page 13, Column 4

SERPENTS MAY EXIST.

Members of Fish Commission Says

Stories May Be True.

Washington, March 11. – C. H. Townsend,

a member of the United States Fish

Commission, at a lecture last night spoke

at some length of the fabulous sea

Serpents.

In prehistoric times, he said, many sea

monsters existed and, though they are

supposedly extinct, he thinks it is not

unlikely that at great depths some may still

remain.  Occasionally, one might rise to

the surface and the stories of sighted

sea-serpents, may therefore not all be

without foundation in fact.




Original story from microfilm records at,

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library


Central Library
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo, NY 14203

Daniel and the Dragon!

In the Prophet Daniel’s book, we see an amazing story of a dragon or giant serpent!  It is related in Chapter 14, along with the statue of Bel.  The King of Babylon was being deceived by the priests of Bel; they had a statue which would eat the food the worshippers would leave it!   Daniel challenged the idea that Bel’s statue ate food offerings.  So a test was made to find the truth.  Food was placed in the room of the statue, and sealed.  But before the Temple room was sealed, Daniel had ashes spread across the floor.  The next day the room was opened and the food gone.  However, Daniel’s cleverness revealed the secret doors the priests used to enter the room and eat the food.  As they saw the footsteps in the ash, which led to the doors.  Next the king showed off the Dragon he worshiped!

And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped him.

And the king said to Daniel: Behold thou canst not say now, that this is not a living god: adore him therefore.

And Daniel said: I adore the Lord my God: for he is the living God: but that is no living god.

But give me leave, O King, and I will kill this dragon without sword or club.  And the king said:  I give thee leave.

Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together:  and he made lumps, and put them in the dragon’s mouth, and the dragon burst asunder.  And he said:  Behold him whom you worshipped.  (Daniel 14:22 – 26)

Now we are left with a mystery, what was this “dragon”?  Perhaps it was an immensely large crocodile, or a large lizard like the Komodo dragon.  Maybe it was an extinct animal, unknown to us.  Could there have been a surviving dinosaurs living along the Euphrates river?  The size can be guessed by the fact Daniel was able to feed it the tar balls.  It could have been a small dinosaur, or a very large reptile.  At least big enough to impress the Babylonians into worshipping it! 

Now some will object to my citing this story as proof of “dragons” or surviving dinosaurs living in Daniel’s time.  There are a number of additional stories, some consider apocryphal works of the Bible.  These  other stories include “Bel and the Dragon”, “Susanna and the Elders”, and the “Song of the Three Young Men.”  But, what if there was proof Daniel wrote these books?  The historian of the Hebrews, Josephus (37 – 100 A.D.),  in his “The Antiquities of the Jews”; has a passage which reveals the truth!    

“But it is fit to give an account of what this man did, which is most admirable to hear,  for he was so happy as to have strange revelations made to him, and those as to one of the greatest of the prophets, insomuch , that while he was alive he had  the esteem and applause both of kings and of the multitude; and now he is dead , he retains a remembrance that will never fail, for the several books that he wrote and left behind are still read by us till this time; and from them we believe that Daniel conversed with God...”  Antiquities 10.11.7 {267}

So you see that the Prophet Daniel was right all along, he wrote several books.  Thus, we may believe in Dragons!

All quotes used with permission of publishers.

Source:  William Whiston, A.M., The Works of Josephus: New Updated Edition, Complete and Unabridged in One Volume (Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1987)

The Holy Bible: Douay - Rheims (Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1899)

Christmas Ornament or U.F.O.?

The Buffalo Courier

Saturday, December 25, 1909

Page 2, Column 4

Phantom Sky

Ship Seen Above

Boston Common

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Then Steered Straight

course for Cambridge,

where it hovered

above the Harvard

Stadium.

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Hiding Place of Craft

Possibly Discovered

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Newspaper Man Believes He

Found It in Woods on

Estate Once Owned By

John B. Gough, Temper-

Ance Lecturer.

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(By Special Wire to The Courier.)

Boston, Dec. 24. – The Phantom air-

ship, for which the entire state of

Massachusetts now watches every

night, paid a brief a visit to Harvard

University this evening.  At least

something carrying lights appeared

over Boston Common about 6:30 o’clock

and laid a straight course for Cam-

bridge, remaining over the stadium.

The lights flickered and seemed to

sway from side to side.  Some of the

thousands of watchers declared they

could make out the framework of an

airship.  James E. Martin of the

Harvard Aeronautical club and Harry

Evans, a former balloonist, were posi-

tive on this point. Prof. Pickering of

the Harvard Observatory refused to

commit himself.

Thousands Saw Lights.

At any rate thousands of Harvard

students and citizens of Cambridge

saw the lights and watched them un-

til about 8:30 o’clock.  They moved

southward, swaying slowly with the

motion that an airship would give

them.  In Boston before the phantom

started for Cambridge, the  thousands

of Christmas shoppers craned their

necks to watch and argued among

themselves as to the cause of the

lights.  The Common was crowded

and observers had station on the roofs

of buildings.

A newspaper man believes that he

has found the hiding place of the

Tillinghast  airship or aeroplane which

many believe is the phantom visitor.

He was not able to verify his belief

as he was arrested as a trespasser and

taken before a justice and fined.

John B. Gough’s Estate.

His discovery was made on the old

estate of John B. Gough, the noted

temperance lecturer, at west Boyls-

ton, six miles from Worcester, which

is Wallace Tillinghast’s home city.

Fourteen men in the employ of Paul

Morgan of the Morgan Construction

Company have been busy on the estate

for some time. Mr. Morgan is an in-

timate friend of Mr. Tillinghast and is

Interested in aerial navigation, having

spent $15,000 some years ago on a

swedish flyer which would not fly.  The

newspaper man discovered in dense

woods on the estate a shed about 100

feet long which he believes is the home

of the phantom.  Before he could get

near the shed, however, he was cap-

tured by two of the workmen.  Mr.

Morgan today denied that he knew

that any airship was concealed on the

estate.

“I don’t think it is there,” he said.

“I know Mr. Tillinghast.  He is con-

sidered very clever.  I have not seen

the aeroplane, but many persons are

convinced that they have.  That is all

I can say.”



Original story from microfilm records at,

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
 

Central Library

1 Lafayette Square
  Buffalo, NY  14203 

  

Tesla ...Mad Scientist?

The Buffalo Courier

Thursday, October 27, 1898

Page 2, Column 3

TESLA’S LATEST

ELECTRICAL MARVEL.

 _________________

Transmission of Power

Without Wires.

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THE AIR HIS CONDUCTOR.

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Claims He Can Transmit Million of

Volts of Electrical Energy All

Over the Earth.

________________

New York, Oct. 26. – Nikola Tesla, the

electrician, describes in today’s issue of

The Electrical Review a possibility in

 electric power transmission.  His invention

for transmitting electricity at high

pressure over long distances have been

 successfully applied at many natural

sources of power.  Probably the most

important of these plants in the United

States is at Niagara Falls, costing over

 $6,000,000 to install which supplies electricity

to many large factories and supplies

electrical power for running the trolley

lines of the City of Buffalo, twenty –

six miles distant.  The announcement is

now made that by employing apparatus

which he had invented, capable of generating

electrical pressure vastly in excess

of any heretofore used, located at

natural sources of power, the current

can be conducted to a terminal maintained

at an elevation where the rarefied

atmosphere is capable of conducting

freely the particular current  produced ;

then, at a distant point where the energy

is to be used commercially, to maintain

a second terminal at about the same

elevation to attract and receive the current

and to convey it to earth through

special means for transforming and

utilizing it.

With the article an illustration is presented

showing streams of electricity issuing

from a single terminal, giving an

estimated electrical pressure of two and

a half million million volts.  The Electrical Review

comments on Mr. Tesla’s novel idea

as follows.

“Tesla now proposes to transmit with-

out use of wires – through the natural

media, the earth and the air – great

amounts of power to distances of thousands

of miles.  This will appear a

dream – a tale from The Arabian Nights.

But extraordinary discoveries Tesla

has made during a number of years of

incessant labor which are authoritatively

described in our present issue, make it

evident that his work in this field has

passed a stage of laboratory experiment,

and is ready for a practical test on an

industrial scale.  The success of his efforts

means that power from such

sources as Niagara will become available

in any part of the world regardless of

distance.

 

-Original article from the microfilm records at,

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Central Library

1 Lafayette Square

Buffalo, NY 14203

 

Sea Serpent Family!

The Buffalo Courier

Sunday, November 27, 1898

Page 11, Column 3

More Sea Serpents.

British Captain and Sailors Swear to

Having Seen Three.

New York, Nov. 26. – From Mobile

comes the story of a British sea captain,

Joseph Donovan of the steamer Selma,

in which the sailor says he saw a family

of sea serpents while his ship was in

the Sargasso Sea, 300 miles southeast of

the Bermudas.  One of the serpents was

100 feet long, the second 20 feet and

 the third presumably the baby, 13 feet

long.  All had large heads with long

bills, immense fins and shaggy manes.

The officers and crew of the Selma

have made affidavits that the captain’s

story is true.

-Original article from the microfilm records at,

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

Central Library

1 Lafayette Square

Buffalo, NY  14203

Attack of the Weasels!

The Dansville Express

Thursday, April 9, 1885

Page 2, Column 3

Attacked by Weasels.

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Delos Lante, an Elk county farmer

has been annoyed greatly this winter by

weasels in his poultry yard and house,

the blood thirsty little animals having

killed his fowls by the score, and defiled

all efforts to trap them.  A few days ago

Mr. Lante was walking through a stony

field on his farm and he saw a weasel

run into a big heap of stone piled loosely

in the middle of the field. He had a

walking stick, and going to the stone

pile, began to throw down stones to get

 at the weasel or scare it out.  Presently

a weasel jumped out and he struck at it

with his cane.  It did not run away, but

sprang at Lante’s throat—the spot where

a weasel instinctively tries to seize.  The

farmer struck at it again and hit it, but

it returned gamely to the attack and

whether in answer to a signal or not the

farmer does not know, weasels began to

swarm out  of the stone pile on all sides,

and in a second were springing upon

Lante, climbing nimbly up his clothes,

trying to reach his face.  They bit him

with their sharp teeth, and finding that

he would be unable to keep the savage

little blood-suckers from fastening their

teeth in his neck without help, he shook

them off as best he could and started

 at the top of his speed for home.  The

weasels followed him until he scaled the

fence.  His hands were bleeding from a

dozen wounds, and if he had remained

to nog the weasels they would undoubt-

edly have overpowered and killed him.

In the afternoon Mr. Lante returned to

the stone pile with two men, two guns

and a dog.  They routed out the weasels

 and killed thirty – a colony which has

 been devastating the entire

neighborhood  for a year or more.

  --- Port Jervis Gazette.

-Original article from the microfilm records at,

Dansville Public Library

200 Main Street

Dansville, NY 14437

Summer with the Beavers!

Here's some pictures of the beavers, taken over this summer.  There doing very well, and their numbers have increased.  There's at least four, adults and young,  in the original lodge.   There also another beaver pair building a lodge in another part of the creek.  You can see them from the bike path as you cycle and jog by! 

Large Adult enjoying the greenery.

Along the creekside.

The new Beaver spots the photographer.

Early morning swim.

A bad fur day!

Starting out his summer evening.