Maggie Wrecks and Rival Towhouse Duel on the Dock
Captain Scraggs and his crew fight to salvage the Maggie after grounding. Gibney and Scraggs clash with towboat men Hicks and Flaherty in a boisterous battle aboard and ashore. McGuffey intervenes to calm and settle the dispute, ending with a promised drink and a truce aboard. Captain Scraggs faces punishment but is spared, while Gibney and Scraggs reconcile and the Maggie escapes further harm.
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Synops
Phineas P. Scraggs
San Francisco
Mess Bay
Maggie
Scraggs
Adelbert P. Gibney
Neils Halvorsen
Scrages
Mr. Gibney
Squarehead
Mr. Gibn
Jber
Jack Flaherty
Flaherty
Thal
Hicks
Adit
Bartholomew McGuffey
The
S. Maggie
MecGufffey
Dan Hicks
Aphrodite
McGuffey
Mr. McGuffey
Halfmoon Bay
Scruggs
Seab Johnny
Captain Hicks
Mac
Dan
Phineas P. Scruggs
Gibney
Jack
Jackson Street
Captain Scraggs
Daniel Hicks
Dan Micks
Seraggsy
Seragesy-y-v
Messrs
Sccrugges
Scraggsy
Captain Scruggs
Bert Gibney
Twig
Coopertown
McGriffey
Failin
Gib
Adelbert
Bart
Ol’ Mac
Crew Wake After Quiet Morning Aboard Aphrodite and Bolega
The Aphrodite and the Bolega crews rested after a long voyage and no tug calls arrived at Red Stack’s office. At ten o’clock Dan Hicks and Jack Flaherty had breakfast together and both reached for Lloyd’s Register, Hicks getting it first.
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Aphrodite
Bolega
Red Stack Company
Dan Hicks
Jack Flaherty
Soy
Lloyd's Regiss
Dao Hicks
Americanizing ghost drawn from Devon to Chicago mansion
A Chicago multi millionaire seeks an antique illusion by importing a Devonshire ghost in cold storage. The specter, dressed in old world garb and resembling a Mayflower-era figure, walked in daylight and seemed to have just missed sailing. The unveiling impressed Chicago's elite before the frightful reveal.
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Chicago
London
Lack of a Boy Scout and fire making in the wilds
The piece notes newspapers praised the boy scout movement after a physician, stranded in the woods without matches, nearly starved. It argues the rescuer should have known primitive fire methods and navigation by sun and stars, highlighting scouts as preparing for emergencies despite modern progress.
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Salt Lake City
Boy Scout Organization
Boy Scout
Boy Scout Statue for Foch Gift Presented by Manhattan Scout Leader
Boy Scouts display a bronze Makenzie statue of Marshal Foch presented by Lorillard Spencer, Manhattan Scout Commissioner, plus a genuine Indian pipe of peace and a war club given by Remington Schuyler of New Rochelle on behalf of the scouts.
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Marshal Foch
Lorillard Spencer
Manhattan
Remington Schuyler
New Rochelle
Omaha Scouts Halt Train Wreck With Quick Action
Two Omaha boy scouts James Caldwell and Clarence Swingholm spotted a fallen tree blocking the Omaha-Chicago passenger train. They signaled danger by waving a red sweater, prompting the engineer to stop the train and likely saving many lives. Swingholm deflects praise as a simple good turn by scouts.
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James Caldwell
Clarence Swingholm
Omaha
Boy Scout Gives Blood to Save Baby Girl
Charles Hopper a sixteen year old Boy Scout of Terre Haute Troop 4 volunteered a pint of his blood for transfusion to a twenty two month old baby girl after the mother’s two transfusions failed. The child’s life was despaired of until Hopper offered his blood.
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Charles Hopper
Troop
Terre Haute
Hopper
Troop 6 Tulsa Scouts Earn Merit Badges
Nine Scouts in Tulsa Oklahoma Troop 6 receive various merit badges including Life and other advanced ranks amid their troop activities.
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Tulsa
Okla
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Green Pea Pirates
Peter B. Kyne
Webster-Man
Chira
Hicks and Flaherty
Eboys Scouts O Esuee
Ameri Ven
Foch
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