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 | | It is served by the fllinois Central, the Chicago Great Western, the Minneapolis and Saint Louis, and the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern railways, the last an electric interurban line. |
 | | From the - gypsum beds near Fort Dodge was taken in 1868 the block of gypsum from which was modelled the Cardiff Giant, a rudely-fashioned human figure, which was buried near Cardiff, Ononclaga county, New York, where it was discovered late in. |
 | | It waS then exhibited in various parts of the country as a petrified man. The hoax was finally exposed by Professor Othniel C. Marsh of Yale; and George Hall of Binghamton, N.Y., confessed to the fraud, his object having been to discredit belief in the giants of Genesis vi. |
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