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: a snipping ptaee to snorien mis i log of tin1 flight.rCapture 'OgopogoIn Big LagoonNear CalgarySuperintendent BownessPark Killed Creature With Fork and AxeCalgary. July Jl. A giant five-foot | long ogopogo” has been captured andslain in thp big lagoon at Bowness I’ark near CalgaryWAfter a terrific struggle i: which apitch-fork and an axe were used, the capture was effected by John McDonald, park superintendent, and wasfinally killed when commission lire R.McDonald mo relation) struck off its head, as big as a football, with a well-aimed axe stroke.Commissionaire McDonald, who is employed at the park, identified the fearsome looking creature as being aling, and after striking off the head and about three feet of snake-likegtail skinned the remainder and cooked it for his supper. He said it tasted “grand.”
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Brandon Daily Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Jul 31, 1942
Page 8
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