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Show PEARLS IN AN ILLINOIS RiVER. Th Clam Shall la the Mackinaw foaad to Contain Flo Game. Bloominotox, III., Nor. 13. Two boys residing at Kappa recently obtained ob-tained about forty pearl from clam shells found In the Mackinaw river. Two of the pearls they took to Peoria yesterday, where they were offered tiS for them. It la believed that there ore many thousands of dollar' worth of pearls in the mussels with which the Mackinaw is profusely stocked. The discovery of the boys ha Inaugurated a pearl hunting erase along the batiks of the Mackinaw In McLean, Tazewell aud Wootlford counties. |