BAH! How do I get a column out of this? I'd hoped for exploding whales, of torrid smells, of beaches littered with blubber, of handbags made out of the skin, but all I got was these four measly lines from the Darlington and Stockton Times of September 14, 1912, and not even a word in The Northern Echo. Bah!
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