Word: shores
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johanna Smith, onetime lumber ship, dropped anchor a month ago. Last week the United Press discovered it. Aboard were 13 gaming tables, 38 slot machines and a cash girl trained to give 18 quarter-dollars in exchange for a $5 bill. "Guests" were being taken aboard from the shore in speedboats, 40 at a load, 25? for the ride. The exposure published by the United Press seemed to be motivated by the alleged fact that the Johanna Smith's operators had thus far entertained some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were...
...shore of Lake Lavigne, Ontario, one Albert La Frenière told last week the story of a picnic...
Albert La Frenière was the only one who succeeded in reaching the shore. When he was revived and informed that the others were certainly drowned, he told a story which made it appear that none of the great legends of the death of captains or of the heroism of priests surpassed the way in which Father Dubuc had conducted himself at the end of his picnic. After the explosion, said Albert La Frenière, Father Dubuc stood up in the stern of the boat and, while his clothes blazed brightly, lifted his crucifix and granted absolution...
...found that aboard his ship, the small gunboat Mindanao, there was no gun equipped to return the salute with appropriate booms and detonations. Rather than set a machine gun to pip-pip-pipping, the flustered Admiral chose not to return the salute at all, but radioed his apologies to shore...
Died. Job A. Edson, 74, president for 23 years (1905-28) of the Kansas City Southern Railroad, onetime (at 13) telegraph operator for the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R. R. Co.; of apoplexy; at Long Beach, Calif...