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Thread #32612   Message #429898
Posted By: gnu
31-Mar-01 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seattle & Moncton ??? ! ! !
Subject: Seattle & Moncton ??? ! ! !
Front page of Moncton, NB Times & Transcript today : Eureka ! Moncton's twin unearthed.

Reader's Digest version : Seattle, WA area experiencing severe drought lately. Receding water in nearby resevoir reveals town named Moncton, settled in 1902 by man named Moncton ( which I find doubtful ) from New Brunswick. Town of 200 people was flooded out in 1915 by groundwater from a nearby dam built in 1914 by city of Seattle, says Ralph Naess of Seattle Public Utilities. There's pictures and all ! It was a railway town... Moncton, NB was a big time railway town.

Now, the article states in the fourth paragraph that this is NOT an April Fool's Day joke, but I wonder.....

Any of you Seattle 'Cats know anything about this ?

gnu