Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only comment made by Donald Murchie '28, when he was told that a message apparently coming from five persons in distress on the schooner Norka had been found on the shore of Martha's Vineyard. The message, a call for help which was dated August second and was scratched with a nail on a block of wood, asked that Murchie be notified...
...inscription scratched on a block of wood which was washed up on the shore of Martha's Vineyard today said that disaster had overtaken the schooner Norka in mid-Atlantic last August...
...block of wood was picked up on the north shore of Martha's Vineyard by Arthur Green of North Tisbury. The message read...
...Yacht Mayflower sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...
...McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul Pry (the report that Paul Pry, grown vicious, was about to be disposed of, seems to have been an unfounded libel). Not included in the party were Mrs. Jaffrey, Presidential housekeeper (on vacation) ; Wilson Jackson, master of pets; Rudolf Forster, executive clerk (on duty...