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Arthur Tuck in 1920

... that Arthur Tuck (pictured) singlehandedly won the Oregon high school track and field team championship for Redmond High School by winning seven individual events and placing second in another?
... that when the town of Lakeview, Oregon, was destroyed by fire in 1900, staff of the Lake County Examiner saved enough equipment and material to publish a special edition the next day?
... that after the ship Favorite was sunk at its moorings in Oregon, it was refloated within days?
... that fossils of 23 mammal species including mammoth, dire wolf, giant ground sloth, pre-historic bison, camel, and horse have been found at Fossil Lake in south central Oregon?

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