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...most respects Capt. von Gronau's latest passage resembled those of 1930 (Chicago via New York Harbor) and 1931 (Chicago via Canada). All originated at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt, where once was one of the world's biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von Gronau is chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This...
Died. Adele Neustadt Schiff, 53, widow of Mortimer Leo Schiff, New York philanthropist and international banker; of cancer; in Oyster...
Councillor Henri Espadrille (consulting a dictionary): "The snail is a castropod mollusk, or shellfish (which are not fish), like the whelk, the slug, the mussel, the limpet, the oyster. Messieurs, we can regulate the snail as seafood, for he is really an oyster...
...general, the bottom consists of a layer of mud and silt, under which is a layer of gravel, and below this is clay or hard pan. A curious thing that was made apparent, after dredging began, was that in sections of the basin there are large beds of oyster shells where the river flowed before the dam was constructed in 1908. Officials in charge expressed the opinion that these shells had been left there by early inhabitants of the district, but it was not made clear whether the early fathers or the Indians made sea food an important item...
William Richardson, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Jullen Ripley, Jr., Oyster Bay, New York, C. R. Rubel, New York City, P. L. Rusden, Somerville, Bryan Rust, Purcellville Virginia, R. DeW. Scott, Montreal, Canada, Muzafer Sherif, Smyrna, Turkey, H. A. Smith, North Adams, Ellis Spear, 3rd, Newton Centre, H. C. Spencer, DeKalb, Illinois, S. R. Sternthal, New York City, D. F. Strong, Winsted, Connecticut, Chi-Tung Tseng, Washington, D. C., Yeh Chih Yang Washington...