File:Jackson Prehistoric Man - Great Falls Daily Tribune (p. 1) - 1919-09-08.jpg

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"12-FOOT MAN WAS A DUMMY CARVED 1894 BY A CONVICT", Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, MT), 1919-09-08, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024808/1919-09-08/ed-1/seq-1/, "Jackson, Mich., Sept. 7. — Twenty or twenty-five years ago, when Jackson prison's industries were not so numerous, Jimmie Leathers spent a few years within its walls and, finding time hanging heavily on his hands, modeled human images for past time. At the end of his sentence he had quite a collection of 'dummies' and these disappeared with him. One of them, Jimmies' 'pre-historic man' was unearthed Friday in Patrolman Oscar Nierman's back yard. This was the explanation put forward today, as to the origin of Nierman's find, which several physicians, after a hasty examination, declared was the petrified body of a man 12 feet and seven inches in height. News of the find brought many scientists to Jackson, today, a dozen of them from the University of Michigan, and one look at the 'giant' constituted their investigation. They sought not to learn more of the ancient race it represented, but how it came to be planted in Nierman's yard. Then some old residents remembered Leathers and his 'dummies,' and Prof. Campbell Bonner accepted the solution of the mystery. Michigan's glacial surface composition, the scientists declared, precludes 'pre-historic finds' dating back more than several hundred of years." 

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