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...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...
...interest in the North is derived from the fact that his father, a fisherman, made yearly trips to the Arctic after halibut and brought back to his children Eskimo toys and implements Peary became interested in young MacMillan through hearing that he had rescued ten people from drowning in Casco Bay, and some time later invited him to join an expedition to the North. It was on this trip that Peary reached the North Pole...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. Remarks on the Geology of Casco Bay, Maine. Mr. F. H. Lahee. "Glaciers of the Lower Copper River Valley, Alaska." Mr. D. S. Birkett. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...frail story of the expanded daily theme type, which, while it shows a good deal of cleverness of an observant sort, proves beyond doubt that the writer has no knowledge of human nature. In "Old and New," J. H. Cabot, 2nd, '00, undertakes to delineate the character of a Casco Bay "islander," and fails completely. "Perquisites," by John G. Cole sC., and "A Fiasco," by R. W. Gray '01, are sketches of the usual daily theme type...
...Samuel J. Barrows, editor of the Christian Register, contributes "The Massachusetts Prison System." Mr. Barrows has served on the Prison Commission and is therefore well acquainted with his subject. It is an interesting article giving descriptions of the Sherborn Prison for women and the Concord Reformatory. "Ye Romans of Casco Bay" is continued this month, dealing with the picturesque region of Casco. It is illustrated by the author, H. Martin Beal, and Sears Gallagher. "Lost Pueblo" is a fanciful story of the sole survivor of a lost race. It is written by Verner L. Reed. The fiction of the number...