Word: mastodon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mather, Associate Professor of Physiography in the University, yesterday released the facts to a CRIMSON representative concerning the recent finding of the Johnstown mastodon. The remains of the huge pachyderm were unexpectedly unearthed near Dr. Mather's home in Granville, Ohio, while he was visiting his parents, and he was called upon to examine and identify the bones. The circumstances connected with the finding were of an extraordinary nature...
Identifies Mastodon at Once...
...Mather was conducted to the excavation ditch where he spent half a day groping in the swamp ooze to determine whether the skull was complete and whether all the vertebrae of the skeleton were there. He was convinced at once that the find was a mastodon of huge proportions, unusually complete in all its parts. He assisted in naming and arranging the bones that had been found, and in giving directions for the excavation work which was done by workmen with their hands alone in order to avoid injuring the skeleton...
...announcement of the nature of the discovery created a six day sensation. During the afternoon after Dr. Mather's arrival, over 5,000 people swarmed through Max Hirschberg's gates to view the mastodon's earthly remains. As the excavation continued, it was determined that the Johnstown tusker was the most complete on record, and only one half inch smaller in proportion than the famous Warren mostodon from Newburgh, New York, the largest ever found...
Golconda, Ill., yielded a 17-foot mastodon spine from four yards of mud on the Ohio River bank...