Word: boothbay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boothbay Harbor...
Died. Anning Smith Prall, 66, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, six-time (1923-35) Representative from New York's eleventh Congressional District; in Boothbay Harbor, Me. Died-Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton Field, 84, widow of Chicago Department Store Owner Marshall Field; in Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Field was first married to Arthur J. Caton, Chicago corporation lawyer, who died in 1904. A year later she married Merchant Field, who died...
...champ stop consider matching you with Joe Louis. -. ." Ill lay: Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy...
...Around Boothbay harbor and Wiscasset last week wormdiggers were working night and day to meet the demand of an unusually good fishing season. At low tide the diggers wade around in knee-deep mud, combing wrigglers to the surface with long-tined clam rakes. A lucky day's haul is 1,000 worms but the average is 500 or less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask...
Leading Maine wormster is tall, shrill, husky Kenneth Ely Stoddard, 24, who began digging worms five years ago when he was broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm's fighting element, Stoddard worms are dropped in buckets of fresh salt water and kept swimming to prevent them from killing each other off before shipment. They are packed on layers of seaweed in small hampers, 100 worms to the hamper with five thrown in "to take care...