Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost before anybody could say "Jack Robinson," the President pulled out a fishing rod and was angling in Brule River from the bridge near the lodge. Then he went to Lake Nebagamon, several miles away; but no one knew which fish he caught...
...Madison, Wis., a jeweler was set to work making a gold button which, when inserted in the Coolidge lapel, will signify that he, a nonresident of Wisconsin, is legally licensed to take fish from Wisconsin waters. Boy Scouts in Superior "chipped in" for a $55 fishing rod to give the President...
...Another bill "pocket vetoed" last week was a $3,500,000 appropriation for Federal fish farms. . . . Another, a bill by Representative Fish of New York providing preferment for War veterans in Civil Service appointments...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...
...earth, painters are still at liberty to go under the sea for subjects. One such is Olive Earle, whose more decorative paintings of its teeming and extraordinary life were shown last week in Brooklyn. Her Bermuda group contained an oil canvas of the strange Deep Sea Squirrel Fish; from California, she had retrieved Kelp at Santa Catalina; her water colors included a portrait of Sea Anemones, bending in a warm current, and a cool atmospheric painting, Color under...