Pollock Boom At Kennebec Mouth Drives Salt Fish Market
The Kennebec River area near Whale's Back and Pond Island sees an extraordinary pollock run with fish averaging seven to 15 pounds. Fishermen use gaffs and spears to haul in hundreds of pounds in a single afternoon, with smacks paying 40 cents per hundred. Much of the haul is shipped to Gloucester, boosting coastal earnings and signaling a shift from traditional cod catches.
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the Independent
New Meadows
Murder on the Glendower Aboard a Boston Harbor Barge
Captain Charles D. Wyman of the barge Glendower is found murdered aboard the vessel near Boston. Cook William de Graff and deckhands William Nelson and Antonio Priskich are arrested after discoveries of a battered head and severed ear. The crew recounts lunch with the captain and a slow death, with Priskich and Nelson assisting during wheel shifts the day of the crime. The barge was part of a Philadelphia to Boston tow, escorted by tug Monocacy.
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Parker Head
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Arthur P. Allen
Bangor
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Charles Davenport
Seymour Pinkham
South Harpswell
Reading
Murder on the high seas prisoners arraigned in Boston
Captain Wyman is found dead aboard the barge Glendower. Priskich Nelson and de Graff are charged with murder and arraigned in federal court for the high seas killing. The trio were held without bail as investigators trace alibis and shipboard routines.
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