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...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...
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...
...Escanaba, Mich., a parrot bit a banker's finger. A week later the parrot died...
...Cambridge in England, of the English cathedral towns.The winners are Lyman E.Butterfield 1G. of Rochester, New York; Samuel P,Chew, Jr 3G, of West River, Maryland Toy Lam son. Jr, 5G. of Cambridge; James S. McLaughlin, 2G of Oberlin, Ohio Brooklyn, New York and Francis L. Utley ,5G, of Escanaba, Michigan...
...whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage 41,380,931. Incidentally, did you know that Duluth-Superior port...