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Elephants skull debate ends with Smithsonian judgment
In a remote case near Elephants Nove a skull sparked dispute among locals led by W F Hurley and Rev Father Gallant. Drifting claims included it being human and nonhuman while a bet and disinterested party Worden sent the skull to the Smithsonian Institute. Scientists confirmed it as a human skull of a man aged 50 to 60, not strong, resolving the dispute.
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Bley
Daylor
William
Toois
Edward Kearsley
Hurley
Guy Skymans
J. E. Worden
Smithsonian Institute
Worden
Smithsonian _Institute
Wrangell Sentinel