Word: escanaba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...olive-green back. Fried like a doughnut in deep fat, it is a distinct delicacy. When smelts are running, they run in enormous schools, can be easily scooped up in hand nets. Last week 20,000 curious tourists were welcomed with open arms by the 15,000 natives of Escanaba, Mich, for that city's fourth annual smelt jamboree...
...County (Mich.) Clerk Newt Ely found the creek near his house green with smelt struggling upstream from Lake Michigan to spawn, fishermen have flocked to brooks around the Great Lakes, have taken in 8,000,000 pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree...
...boats westbound from the Soo Canal stayed strung out there for two days, like black beetles stuck in cake frosting. In the Straits of Mackinac 50 miles south the car ferry Chief Wawatan cleared a path of blue water for four freighters, led them across Lake Michigan to Escanaba, returned to the Straits to break ice for a cluster of 38 more. At week's end the wind changed to the south. Through softer ice the freighters Frontenac and Peter White pushed ahead of the others out of Whitefish Bay and crossed Lake Superior to Duluth. They passed...
...gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From...
Robert Gessner was working in Hollywood, preparing the script of his Indian story, Massacre, when Hitler came into power in Germany. A broad-shouldered, heavy youth, author of a book of poems and holder of a pilot's license, Robert Gessner, born in Escanaba, Mich, in 1907, had not thought much about being a Jew before that time. There had been a few painful instances of hostility in his boyhood, more when he got to college, but before Hitler "race hatred and the Jews were interesting subjects, but not pressing." Now he found that even in Hollywood Jewish actors...