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Turtle

Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, December 3, 1897

     A 500 pound sea turtle, 14 years old, was captured and killed in Chicago harbor by two fishermen. Old lake men say this is the first sea turtle that has ever reached the southern end of Lake Michigan of its own volition.

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