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Unidentified Sailor Rescued from Ice Floe Near New York
An unidentified sailor, likely from an American steamship, was found by the lighthouse tender Larkspur on a sea ice floe in the Amtrak channel about eight miles offshore. He was unconscious from exposure and could not identify himself. the steamship had passed earlier, suggesting he fell overboard and boarded the ice. Philadelphia paid seven thousand five hundred dollars for a two foot land strip to widen a park.
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New York
Jan
Larkspur
Amtrak
Milford
Dan
George A. Haherts
E Sunshine Ci
St. Petersburg
Florida
Sunshine City
OM Dwight Platt
Derby Ilford
Roberts
2Nd Avenue
Citizen Art Shop
Charles Lafield
Howard Lafield
Grace Lafeld
Bridgeport
Alilford
William A. Platt
Broad Street
Hel Clark
River Street
Holyoke
Joan Bush
Academy
Our Lady'of Mercs
Larralton Hall
Donald Campbell
New Haven
William Shepard
Fort Trumbell Beach
C. A
Newton Harrison
Port Tuunbull Beach
New York City
Stanley Clarke
Marshall Clarke
Fort Slocum
Newark
United Navals
Zentries Anisarvigues
Philadelphia
Penn
City
Ladies' Aid Society
Margery Clarke
Red Men's Hall
Greant
Fred Tiobinson
Pstit Michigan
Mtoe
Bert N. Clarke
AJ George A. Coy
Hrenday House
North Street
Harry Cooper
Charles Island
Oscar Morris
Mother
Heatle
New Llaven
Willie
Tata
Tioa Bakery
Jiis