Word: gasparilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mottled Death. The amber streaks disappeared. Then, in the middle of July, the Red Tide reappeared off Gasparilla Island. Slowly, it worked northward, dissipating mysteriously, as mysteriously reforming. Last week off St. Petersburg, the Red Tide stretched in mottled patches over an area 60 miles long and 25 miles wide. As it spread, fish flopped crazily on the edges and died. Flies buzzed over their rotting carcasses on the beaches. Shore residents suffered headaches, burning throats and coughs...
...Tampa, for the first time in six years. Pirate King Gasparilla invaded the city in his three-masted ship Jose Caspar to set off a three-day festival. City officials happily estimated that 250,000 people had been attracted by the revival of the 43-year-old pageant...
...Cove, Long Island, he came into the bank as usual at about 10:30 a.m. That evening he was on a Florida special, southbound for a rest. Early on the morning of the 25th he suffered a slight heart attack, walked from the train to a cottage of the Gasparilla Inn at Bocagrande, a tiny hamlet on a Florida...
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