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Show FAKE DIARY OF NOAH. Copper Tablets Had Been "Planted" by Michigan Contplratora. Chicago A dispatch to tho Trlbunu from .Detroit, Midi , says: An alleged copy of Noah's diary, en-grated en-grated upon n copper tablet dug u-In u-In Michigan nnd offered for Kilo to u. Wisconsin collector, has resulted In ttncotcrlng ona of tho cleverest relic swindles of recent yenr. A former srerctnry of state I claimed to bo Implicated Im-plicated In tbo affair nnd with him nn. n unit ernlty museum curator anil other Michigan men Michigan eopiier formed the basis of the entvrprlre. which nnli In manufacturing man-ufacturing nntlPtit relics out of copper, cop-per, painting tlieni green tn represent tcrdlgrls. dipping them In C(.-rroslt ncld, nnd burlns them In mounds, lifter lif-ter which they were dug up by relict hunting cxptdHlnii under tho leader- ship of the promoter |