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Two Old Sea Captains Start New Life in Banking
Kansas City Star recounts the farewell of two Bath ship captains who opened a Kansas bank twenty six years ago and now close their venture. Capt. Stackpole dies in Washington Kansas and Capt. Tobey returns to Thomaston Maine to hear breakers and smell salt air. Tobey recalls early voyages and family seafaring ties as Stackpole and Tobey’s bond spans generations. The article leads into the Montrose W Houck launch at the New England yard with 2000 spectators and a christening by Miss Alice May Deering.
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Montrose W. Houck
New England
The
Kansas City Star
Bath
Kansas
Eer
Thomaston
F. W. Stackpole
Washington
Kas
William J. Tobey
Stackpole
Tobey
Seven Seas
Captain Tobey
Chapman & Flint
Edward O’brien
Horn
San Francisco
Callao
Peru
Chincha Islands
Hamburg
Germany
New England Yart
G. G. Deering Company
Maine
Temperance Workers
Alice May Deering
Frank M. Deering
Wiwurna
G. G Deering Company
James W. Hawley
Deering
Port Tampa
New York
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Baltimore