Word: falkirk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scotch Boys' (Edinburgh)?James Lindsay of Falkirk...
...Helen Mar with her cargo had disappeared under the Indian Ocean in 1844. The family which lived at Falkirk, Scotland, was poor. Robert Dollar's mother died, and his father began to drink. At 13 Robert Dollar emigrated to Canada, got a job as chore boy to a cook in a lumber camp...
...hardy old merchant sat on the porch of his palace, last summer, gazed at the shipping inside the Golden Gate. Almost he could see the red flag on this stern and that?the red flag with the white $ on it. That stood for little Robbie Dollar, who romped about Falkirk, Scotland, more than three-quarters of a century ago. It stood for Robbie, the Canadian lumberjack, who ventured into business for himself, bought a 300-ton boat because lumber freights were so high. It stood for the ingenious skipper who, stranded in the Philippines without a return cargo, waded ashore...
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