Nags Head, N.C., May 16—Nags Head, former rendezvous for free booters and smugglers and in winter swept by furious storms, has another problem today which, with the advent of hot summer weather, promised to become acute.
A 65-foot whale, which seafaring men believe mistook a large coastwise steamer for a male rival, is lying on the beach, washed up by the gale of the past week. Its mouth is big enough to hold a small automobile. Two enterprising beach combers were engaged today in cutting out whalebone, and summer residents are hopeful that the effort to dispose of the carcass to a Norfolk fertilizer manufacturer will be successful.
From the front page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 17, 1925
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