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Show Largest of Whales. Tho largest whalo of Its typo of which there Is scientific record was captured recently off Port Arthur, Tex. He measured slxty-thrco feet In length, and was estimated to be about three hundred years old. Captain Cap-tain Cob Plummer, mnto of a United States pilot boat, sighted tho monster In tho shoals off tho Jetties, and the crew of his vessel captured tho mammal. mam-mal. Tho huge body was towed ashore, exhibited and much photographed bo-foro bo-foro being cut up. |