Ear: Bear

Bearish rerun: From the July 27, 1883, edition of The Daily Astorian:

• M. J. Kinney, of the Astoria Packing Co., has a young bear, which was sent him from Chilkat, Alaska, and arrived in good trim on the Idaho. It will probably furnish us with another and longer item, as soon as it gets big enough to chew up a small boy.

Note: Marshall J. Kinney, born into an Oregon pioneer family, was the president of the Astoria Packing Co., which ran the Kinney Cannery, built in 1879 in Uniontown, between Fifth and Seventh streets. By 1881, the cannery was often thought to be the largest in the world.

His wife, Narcissa, a dedicated member of the temperance movement, was fond of “Christianizing” members of her husband’s large corps of fishermen. (In One Ear, 7/27/2018)