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Next day he fished for the last time this trip, off Providence Island, historic base of piratical Sir Henry Morgan. Thence the Houston weighed anchor for Pensacola, politics and national problems...
...Jacksonville Journal, Pensacola Journal, Pensacola News, Panama City Herald...
...history's most heroic acts . . . an act of perfect courage" was what President Theodore Roosevelt called it when, during target practice off Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that...
...west coast, a large sound truck equipped with a gramophone & amplifier nearly deafened the citizens of Pensacola with the Dipsy Doodle. This was the preface to an address by the State's onetime (1933-37) Governor Sholtz in which that dignitary found occasion to remark: "Either the Junior Senator is telling a deliberate untruth or he doesn't know what he is talking about." ¶ In Frostproof, near the State's centre, Representative Wilcox informed an audience that he was "a better friend to the old people than those who give them lip service in Florida...
...bill does indeed specify that the highways shall not pass through cities. TIME erred in following the description of it which he himself gave in the House year ago. Typical excerpt: "The second [route] starts at Buffalo and runs through Pittsburgh, Charleston, W. Va., Atlanta, Ga., to Pensacola...