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Show Largest of Whales. The largest whale of Its type of which there is scientific record was captured recently off Fort Arthur, Tex. He measured sixty-three feet in length, and was estimated to be about three hundred years old. Captain Cap-tain Cob Plummer, mate of a United States pilot boat, sighted the monster in the shoals off the jetties, and the crew of his vessel captured the mammal. mam-mal. The huge body was towed ashore, exhibited and much photographed before be-fore being cut up. |