Word: rowboats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State Isaiah J. Churgin and Ephraim Skliansky went rowing on Long Lake. The rowboat overturned and they were drowned. Both were officers of the Amtorg Trading Corporation, buying machinery for Russia. Funeral services, without religious ceremonies, were held at a funeral chapel in Manhattan. There were 500 wreaths sent-most of them allegedly from grateful U. S. merchants, unnamed. One with an inscription "To my dear friends and co-workers," was said to have been placed there by order of Leon Trotzky. Four busses, two flower cars, ten limousines and other automobiles made up the funeral procession. The corpses...
...went to work to locate the body, and after hours of effort it was found by Frank Gearing, chauffeur for Mrs. Franklin Townsend of Albany, who repeatedly risked his own life in attempts to bring it to the surface, so tightly was the body enmeshed in underwater weeds. A rowboat and grappling irons were brought overland from Kinderhook Lake and the body was secured...
...must go "down to the sea in ships" he did not put more gas in his motor boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board...