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Died. George Peters Lee, 57, last of the Mississippi steamboat Lees, packet designer & master; after a short illness; in Memphis, Tenn...
Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
...Hermann, Mo. on the Missouri river a weather-beaten skiff pulled alongside the shiny government towboat Mark Twain aboard which Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley was inspecting inland waterways. Aboard the skiff was its owner, William ("Steamboat Bill") Hechmann, old-time river pilot. Observing an enormous fish lashing about at the end of a line astern the skiff, the Secretary shouted...
...Replied "Steamboat Bill": "Out of the river. It's a catfish...
...Secretary invited "Steamboat Bill" aboard the towboat for dinner, had the 45-lb. catfish served for breakfast...