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Admiral Dewey's Summer Home Rumor Vexes Maine
A Boston Post correspondent visits Gerrish Island near Kittery Maine chasing a tip that Admiral George Dewey bought a 10 acre Gerrish Island site. The tale proves false as locals deny any such property and the journalist recalls Maine blizzard storms and bears as he heads back to Boston.
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State of
Maine
Wilds of
Garden of Eden
Wilds
Deadwood
Storm King
Boston
George Dewey
Kittery
Manila
Post
Dewey
America
Edgar Allan Poe
Tom Reed
Gerrish Island
Portsmouth
N. H
Boston & Maine Railroad
Chesterfield
Admiral Dewey
Manister
Sherlock Holmes
Johu
Jake Henderson
Jake
New Hampshire
Aguinaldo
Tom Trainer
George
Bear
Bruin
Bill Curry
Tom
Tom Curry
Jakey
Massachusetts
Olympia
Aguin