They made them bigger in Seymour, Texas

A GIANT SKELETON EIGHTEEN FEET TALL

AUSTIN, Tex., June 14.-“If the report that the fossilized skeleton of a giant eighteen feet tall has beenfoun

d near Seymour Tex., is true, it is the most important ethnological discovery ever made in the world,” remarked Dr, J. E. Pearce, pro

fessor of anthropoplogy of the University of Texas. “It would b

reak all previous record of giants by nearly 10 feet 5 inches in height. The skeleton  is in possession of W. J. Mckinney, Houston, Tex., oil prospector, who found it, and has been seen by a number of people who vouch for the truth of the size of a relic of a heretofore unknown race.

Mr. Mckinney, while making an excavation on the narrow watershed between the Brazos and Wichita rivers, came upon the fossilized skeleton near the surface. Mr. Kinney writes:

“I estimate that this man weighed from two thousand to twenty-five hundred pounds. According to my deductions he lived about twenty-eight hundred years ago. The skull is six times the size of that of an ordinary man”

Mr. McKinney does not explain how he arrived at the figures as to the probable period of the existence of this remarkable man. It is probable that the bones of the giant will be donated to the Smithsonian Institution which, under the direction of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, is now conducting anthropological research work in Texas.

The Coconino sun., July 11, 1919, Page Page Eleven, Image 11
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