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Mammoth Sale Eases Farmer’s Burden, Delights Private Donors

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Private donors are paying somewhere in the “six figures” to buy a major wooly mammoth skeleton for the public museum in Milwaukee. The Kenosha County farmer who’s sold the bones says he’s glad to get them out of his basement. Chuck Quirmbach reports…

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