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- [Newspaper clipping affixed to page, transcribed as follows] [Times] Colonist Oct [October] 25/44 [1944] [written in pencil above article headline] Courageous Woman Traps Huge Eagle Few are the women who capture eagles with their bare hands, and yet Mrs. J.H. Parham, whose husband has a poultry farm on the Braefoot Estate, did just that. Carrying a pail of feed across the yard yesterday afternoon, she no- ticed a commotion amongst the fowl. Mrs. Parham dropped her bucket, and going over to investigate, came across a giant golden eagle which had landed in the yard, apparently to carry off its dinner in the form of a Parham chicken. She grabbed the eagle by the feet, putting her arms over its giant wings, and threw it into a vacant chicken run a short distance away. Mrs. Parham admits she wasted no time in the execution of the action. The eagle screamed when she grappled with it and tore up and down within the wire runway, shrieking all the while. She thinks that if it had not been for the op- portune arrival of her husband, home from work, it would have beaten its way to freedom. Mr. Parham killed the bird, and found on inspection that the wing spread was more than six feet.
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