Word: crisfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure Group. In Crisfield, Md., as A. Wellington Tawes, speaking in the high school auditorium, finished making a motion to float a $1,500,000 bond issue for school repairs, the ceiling in the next room fell down, and the audience unanimously seconded Tawes's motion...
Captain Grant was held in harbor last week with a vengeance. The Fannie Insley, carrying a load of empty oyster shells across the bay to a fertilizer factory in Crisfield, Md., had sailed without her. Captain Grant did not mind sea smells, but she drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small...