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Show Turtle Caaturies Old A giant sea turtle, five feet long snd estimated to be not less than five hundred hun-dred years old, has been taken alive by Dr. W. J. Kent, curator of the Bastings (Neb.) college museum. The turtle was caught In the Bahama Islands. Is-lands. The reptile will be shipped to Bastings and placed In I tank of running run-ning water at the museum. "When Columbua visited the Islands on bis voyage of discovery," a letter from Kent said, "this turtle was probably fifty or seventy-five years old, and measured six or seven Inches." |