THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015
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viatrix Amelia Earhart (pictured) may or may not have passed
through Astoria on a road trip to Canada in the 1920s, but she,
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calls were not heard, and waves tipped the plane into deep water,
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have sent several expeditions to Nikumaroro, but “no single conclu-
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right now, especially to investigate the “Bevington Object,” some-
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time was in a song and the next three times were in reference to the
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the noisy and destructive sea lions off the east end moor-
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moonshiner and Paul Kearney, Clatsop County sheriff from
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