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...Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill a one-acter called Bound East For Cardiff. Sick with stage fright, "Gene" O'Neill spoke a few lines...
...half-dozen trappers' huts, a mounted police detachment, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor's post and a dozen moon-faced Eskimos. Later gangs went in and built the temporary town of wooden barracks that is now known simply as Churchill. The harbor was dredged, the wharf was built, a huge grain elevator put up. Churchill last week had mechanical facilities to handle 800,000 bushels of grain a day. About 530,000 bushels will be sent this year as a test. Part of it was actually there, ready to pour into the hold of the Farnworth...
Fortnight ago the U. S. towboat General Ashburn paddled proudly up the Illinois River on a three-day trip from St. Louis. When it reached Peoria it pushed the big steel barge it had brought up to the city's new $400.000 wharf and warehouse. Whistles tooted, bands played, citizens cheered to celebrate the opening of one more link in the Government's vast mid-continent waterway system...
...name of the creek is Cohausie and the wharf Greenwich Pier. HARRY M. ARMSTRONG...
This was obtained at a wharf in one of the small creeks which flow into Delaware Bay, being the last village (one store and house at the wharf) on this creek beyond and all around are vast meadows (salt meadows) where many muskrats live and a great many are trapped up in this section...