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Whaling Fleet Reports From Point Barrow Area
News from the whaling fleet details the Jeannette's ice entrapment for 17 days and tow to harbor by Thetis, the Olga found later, and no whales taken by Herman and Karluk. It notes 60,000 pounds of whalebone and various skins aboard. Also reports a highway robbery case in Dillon and a fire seen near Durban related to the missing Waratah missing steamer.
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America
Stein-Bloch
Michaels-Stern
Symons
Butte
San Francisco
Jeannette
Pooley
Point Barrow
Alaska
Ivy
Klintenberg
Jeannette Hereolf
United States Revenue
Thetis
Point Barrow Harbor
Olga
Herman
Karluk
Manila
Harlow
Bruce
Newport News
Port Natal
Durban