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...buildings ashore, a group of 40 seamen off duty assembled on the well-deck of the Augusta to see a movie. From somewhere a single 36 mm. pompom shell weighing about a pound dropped in their midst and exploded. Eighteen men were wounded, one Freddie John Falgout, 20, of Raceland, La., was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Raceland, in Louisiana's trench speaking Acadian community, Freddie John's fiancée, Waitress Louise St. Germaine of Napoleonville was heartbroken. His father showed the boy's last letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, ablest gentleman rider in the U. S., broke his collar bone when his mount fell in the Raceland Steeplechase at Pimlico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

John R. Macomber, whom Mr. McGregor succeeded, went into the chair- manship. Sportsman Macomber last week collected $125,000 fire insurance on Raceland, his home and track in Framingham Centre, Mass., announced he will rebuild. He is directly interested in the Boston Herald and Traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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