Word: sapelo
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Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...
...were "biting like hungry tigers" but the President got not even a nibble the first day out. Christmas Eve the President & party feasted on roast oysters at the Ossabaw Island place of H. N. Torrey of Detroit. They ate Christmas dinner as the guests of Howard Earle Coffin on Sapelo Island where Calvin Coolidge was entertained four years ago. Mr. Coffin and the President are remote cousins, their families having gone west together from North Carolina to Ohio in 1802. At West Milton, Ohio. Mr. Coffin was born in a house built by John Hoover, the President's great...
...Ovvned by Chicago's William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum tycoon. Other famed island-owners: Detroit's Motorman Howard Earle Coffin (Sapelo, Ga.), Boston's Lawyer Albert Cameron Burrage (Bumkin, in Boston Harbor), Maine's onetime Governor Percival Proctor Baxter (Macworth, Casco Bay), Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Will Hays, Arthur Brisbane (Ona. Fla.), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke (Jahncke's Bayou, St. John...