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...Inters Sow; Humanity Rewarded...
...tenant on Friend Butte's farm near Johnstown, Ohio, was desolated by the death of a valuable prize sow on August 16," explained Dr. Mather to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Determined to give the sow a decent buried, he carried its carcass to a swamp in one corner of the property and began to dig a grave. A few feet below the surface, he struck a hard substance with his shovel. Temporarily diverted, he cleared away the soil from the hard substance and discovered a giant ivory tusk...
During his absence, Friend Butte, who owned the swamp where his tenant had started the sow's obsequies, claimed the huge skeleton which was being excavated. In a brief legal action, he obtained possession and promptly sold the find to Max Hirschberg, a Newark, Ohio, business man, for $5,000 cash...
...sort of thing to shake the confidence of those who have always believed a silk purse could not be made out of a sow...
...intelligence. His ample army pants were held up by a rope around the waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace himself by getting into a state of weak giggles...