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...said he had gone from Dunellen, N. J., where he was employed as a caretaker, to The Bronx to see a girl named "Esther." He went to Christian Fredericksen's bakery-restaurant, which he used to patronize when he lived nearby, with a man named "Larsen." In the restaurant, he distinctly remembered seeing Hauptmann sitting at a table. When the State began questioning him, Carlstrom could not recall "Esther's" last name or "Larsen's" first...
...command of the Ross was Captain Oscar Nilsen, who began his whaling under the man who saved the industry from extinction. Modern whaling dates back to Christmas Eve, 1904, when Captain Carl Anton Larsen of Sandefjord, Norway, brought the first whale oil of the season into Grytviken, a bleak whaling station on the Island of South Georgia east of Cape Horn. Captain Larsen, already an oldster in the trade, realized that whaling was doomed unless new grounds were discovered. The Arctic, hunted for centuries, was nearing exhaustion. With great difficulty he raised enough capital for an expedition to the Weddell...
Soon after the War the vast waters lying between the South Polar ice barrier, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope threatened to go the way of the Arctic whaling grounds. Again Captain Larsen set out to find more whales. This time he went through the ice pack into the Ross Sea* where no explorer had been for a decade. Thence he pounded his way into the Bay of Whales where six years later Richard Evelyn Byrd established a base at Little America. Once again Captain Larsen made whaling history, by arriving on a Christmas Eve. Four days later...
HARVARD PRINCETON Merry, if. rf., Seibert Morse, rf. lf., Fairman Boys, c. c., Larsen Fletcher, rg. lg., MacMillan Ferriter, lf. rg., Grebauskas...
HARVARD PRINCETON Comfort, r.f. Fairman, r.f. Merry, l.f. Seibert, l.f. Boys, c. Larsen, c. Grady, r.g. Grebauskas, r.g. Ferriter, l.g. MacMillan...