Category: Miscellaneous

With Tusks Sixteen Foot Long

OVER In England the soldiers in the trenches haven’t even seen an enemy, much less fired a shot at him, have secured one of the most important results of the war. They have found the remains of a giant Straight Tusked elephant, the largest elephant that has yet been found in the world, which politely shoves the American Imperial Mammoth from the perch. so to speak, whereon it had stood for all these years as the largest known elephant.

(Detail from The Washington Herald, March 05, 1916)

Artwork from a newspaper insert, from a bank advertisement, honoring those that lost their lives in the Great War.