Word: crisfield
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...knew there was a private landing field. There was a field but its beacon had not been in use for some time. Townsfolk heard the ship droning in circles overhead. Too late they rushed out to the landing field to turn on the lights. Lieut. Dietz pushed on to Crisfield, where his ship hit a tree and a telephone pole trying to land. The motor was thrown free and so was Lieut. Dietz. His skull was fractured, but he managed to shout: "Don't bother anything in the plane! Take care of the mail...
...President Roosevelt's week-end cruise took him down the Potomac on the Sequoia, into Chesapeake Bay and to Crisfield, Md. There he debarked and spent six hours sightseeing on the Eastern Shore. On the return trip he conferred with Secretary Ickes and General Johnson who had flown from Washington to board the Sequoia...
...fire occurred at Crisfield, Md., yesterday morning by which two-thirds of the town was destroyed...