Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-09-07
AT OLD ORCHARD
Monster Reptile Makes It's
Appearance.
TERRIBLE ICTHTHYOSAURUS
IS CAPTURED
Graphic Description of the
Reptile from Eye Witness
Scientists Amazed.

OLD OttCHARD BEACH, Me-,
Ang. 28.-(Special. Ut is purely de-
lightful here in many ways. A we'll
conducted Sunday school might object
to some of the ways and means of this
wonderful locality. Yesterday was
Sunday Aug. 81 We found it SO only
in name. All along the Hotel fronts
and on the Pier were bargain sales 60
ing on in full blast, and all transac-
tions as on week days, only more so
for the crowd was much greater.
This pier runs out into the ocean an
eight of mile. The beach is truly
the best of all ON the New England
coast. 1t is five miles long, and when
the tide is out, as much as 500 feet
wide, and is like floor and about
as hard, which makes it fine for all
kinds of sports, base ball teams of both
sexes, automobiles and carri ages.
Thousands throng the beach, when
the surf runs high.
There is great curiosity here at
present. The enclosed circular will
tell about it The name reminds me
of story | heard once One of these
prehistoric creatures went to Adam,
who is said to have named everything
1t said, ''Ad, what is my name? 1
have forgotten ''Ichthyosaurus, you
fool. have told you forty times or
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the animal on the beach when it wash
ed ashore. Original weight was 70
tons and its tongue was Is feet long
This kind was replaced by the whale,
so say those who pretend to know
One of the papers speaks of it like
this: lone day last week at Old Or
chard, Maine, the real, genuine arti
Gle waded ashore and asked for rates
at some of the Hotels. This was suffi-
cient to set the whole world agog as
to the question of the Sea Serpent.
On learning the Hotel rates the SER
pent, of course dropped dead, right
on the beach. No one told us it was
dead, but our sense of smell indicated
that if it was alive it should take a
bath. -
What published reports say: 1.-THE
Old Orchard Sea Serpent, or Ichthyo-
saurus, Monster of the Reptilian age
and Terror of the Mesozoic Seas. The
largest reptile ever known to have ex-
listed In the anatomy of this giant
mammal more than seven prehistoric
reptiles are repeated and scientists en-
phatically declare it the eight wonder
of the world. Estimated to be at
least three thousand years old when it
died. Weight, seventy tons 1.-THE up
per jaw alone weighing one and a half
tons fourteen feet long,. Captured at
Old Orchard Beach Maine, June Z,
1905, by F. A, Sidelinger, real estate
agent. Thousands who have seen this
rare specimen Of ancient mammals,
have ascribed their testimony over
their signatures;
This is beyond the slightest
shadow of doubt the extinct Ichthy-
osaurus and of inestimable value, as il
bears out all.the scientists claim of it
H. L. Lewis, New College, Oxford,
Trinity, Dublin.
This is undoubtedly an Ichthyosau
rus, and the only one in existence to,
day. III. H. Lynn, University OF
Chicago.
From cursory examination l an
full convinced that this is indeed the
Ichthyosarus. 1t is an exact replica o.
the specimen lin wood | have seen il
Egypt and Europe. "-H. Morelle, lat
staff interpreter to His Majesty
forces in Egypt.
This is the find of the world. -
Hon. r. G.. Macpherson, NJ. P, Vic
toria, B. G.
I'VE find the ichthyosaurus, or fish
lizard, existed i'll what the geolOgist
call the Mesozoic or middle life era
which might be ten or thirty million
years ago. Nobody knows or cai
come any nearer to it than by making
guess from the evidences found il
the rocks. At least six geological per
iods have passed since the fsh-hzar
existed. Portland Press.
This giant mammal represents sevef
prehistoric retiles in one. Larges
skull I'm the world Had "A heavy Goa
of hair. eve sockets oyer two and
halt feet iu diameter lr-s fourtec
feet long that it had wings There
good evidence Does uur i'm amy SENS
REPRESENT hideous spectacle, hut %
thor scientific. study, educational
marvel beyond the comprehension
the human mind, and every man. We
imam ami child should 500 10 before It
departure. At Big Tent, Seasid