Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Stephen A. Connell, 55, secret service man who saved President Theodore Roosevelt from an attack by a crazed farmer at the Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home; of heart disease; at St. Louis, Mo. He used to wrestle and box with President Roosevelt, often said, "Teddy could sock...
Charles Gates Dawes, 63, and his brother, Rufus Dawes, 61, and their families, went to Grand Manitoulin Island, Georgian Bay, Canada, to catch fish with their brother, Beman Dawes, 58. En route, in Milwaukee, Charles Gates Dawes said: "It looks like Hoover...
...halted. Nonetheless, the proposed stunt approached the scandalous. It costs the U. S. several hundred dollars to open the canal locks needed for the swim. At Gatun Locks Swimmer Halliburton paid 36? (correct charge on a tonnage basis) to be floated up the 85 ft. from Limon Bay to Gatun Lake...
Hands cupped, legs working in piston fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again...
Died. John Hornby, 50, lost explorer; of starvation; in a solitary cabin on the Thelon River, west of Hudson Bay, Canada. Hornby departed northward with two nephews in June, 1926; a search was instituted in December, 1927; last week the Canadian Mounted Police reported discovering the three bodies...