Wrong answers only: which Charlestonian is this?
Reading a history paper on phosphate mining in the Charleston, stumbled on this wild ad from 1870, trying to make a connection between the bone phosphates being mined to an ancient race of giant baboons (more likely is was formed from the remains of marine life, they found lots of bones and teeth).
Paper is “SC Land Phosphates in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Toward an Archaeological Context” by Michael Trinkley.
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