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On June 22, 1905, rumours a crocodile had been living in the Logan River, south of Brisbane, were confirmed when local storekeeper Alf Hinds spotted something “floating on the surface of the water, under a willow tree”. Hinds, with the assistance of his brother Jack and publican Charles Rumpf, towed the dead crocodile “down to the ferry landing, and pulled it up onto the bank”. According to the Brisbane Courier newspaper, the 3.83m crocodile had been shot at a few days prior, but not for the first time. Earlier in the year it was reported that William Hammel, an aerated water manufacturer, had sighted “a large alligator” on the bank of the river. He shot at the creature with his rifle, supposedly wounding it, before it “took to the water and disappeared”. The final, fatal shot is generally attributed to one Charlie Goetsch. The discovery of the dead crocodile caused great excitement in Logan Village. Locals posed behind their new trophy and schoolchildren were given an opportunity to inspect this “curiosity”. The Brisbane Courier published a photograph showing a small schoolboy’s head next to the open jaws of the croc, which was later skinned and its stomach revealed to contain corn, several ducks and small turtles. During the crocodile scare some were skeptical. A few weeks prior to the discovery of the dead crocodile a cheeky journalist from the Beaudesert Despatch newspaper attributed sightings to "the bad grog dispensed by the Waterford publicans". The Beaudesert Herald hit back by publishing a letter to the editor saying, "For the benefit of your readers it may not be out of place to mention that the writer of the paragraph referred to was not afraid to sample the "bad grog" on the occasion of the opening of the Waterford Dip. Drinks were free. Nuff sed" The question remained: how did a crocodile end up so far south? Rumour had it that nine years earlier, two well-known Brisbane residents were given a crocodile as a Christmas gift, but the contents of the package mysteriously went missing. If true, it lends credence to the admonition that pets aren’t just for Christmas – they’re for life. Myles Sinnamon - Project Coordinator, State Library of Queensland www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/crocodile-found-logan-river-1905#....

Jean Harold Edward St. Cyr was involved in a scandal alleging he was merely posing as a member of a wealthy French family, but was, in fact from Texas.

With the following citation, I would imagine this photo is from 1914. Special to The New York Times. April 28, 1915, Section , Page 13, PHILADELPHIA, April 27. -- Jean H. E. Saint Cyr, whose pink silk sweater and sky-blue shirts attracted much attention in Bar Harbor last Summer,

So, was he found to be really a St. Cyr, or was he truly insincere?

According to this newspaper article news.google.com/newspapers?id=OQAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IpsEA... St Cyr died in 1967 in La Jolla California, still claiming to be a French aristocrat. However, he left money in his will to Hugh Thompson of Waco, Texas who in 1916 told the New York Times St. Cyr was not his brother Jack. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C1EF6355C1373...

See www.gutenberg-e.org/steuer/archive/detail/C11.p09.Typesof... for another copy of this picture, with caption as published in May 1915 and additional description: "Three types of Russian prisoners pose for this group photograph: two Bashkirian prisoners (the men with the fur caps), a Kyrgyz (who is sitting on the left with the Russian army field cap), and three Tartars (wearing the dark hats) from the Steppes of Russia. They represented the diversity of the tsarist armies fighting against the Central Powers."

The style of Tartar hat seems to be a Georgian papakhi. Like an astrakhan, a papakhi is made from wool of sheep with a curly fleece. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papakhi

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Looks like a Grand Funk Railroad LP cover.