Coast Guard Men Face Low Pay and High Danger on Long Island
The United States Life Saving Service struggles to fill crews along 120 miles of Fire Island coastline. Pay tops at 1104 dollars yearly with no pension, prompting many to choose fishing or yacht work. Surfmen endure deadly waves and rough stations, yet maintain honor and hospitality as generations of families serve.
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United States Lifesaving
Long Island
Coast Guard
Great South Beach
Fire Island Beach
Rotterdam
Cuba
New York
Fire Island
Hamptona
George Goddard
Lone Hill
Rand
Lloyd
PrinzessiIrene Fagt
jHiss Jones
Cap
Coast Guards
West Sayville
Rhodes
Bakers
Atione
Boya
Sake of Novelty Girl Wishes She Could Be a Hen
Miss Thung and Margaret watch chickens on a Sunday in a grassy yard. Margaret muses on Sundays versus weekdays and imagines, with wistful charm, what it would be like to be a hen for a while.
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Miss Thung
Margaret
Mamma
Lodger’s Joking Cat Request Splits Two Half Brothers
The exchange features a landlady and lodger discussing a humorous claim that the lodger’s visitor is made of two half brothers, highlighting a comic misunderstanding about a pair of cats and the guest’s supposed size.
Accessories on motorcycle handles sold as useful add ons
A fragment describes a small tubing piece across motorcycle handlebars to hold compact accessories, noting its convenience and lack of other storage. It mentions accessories support and a few items like witchhazel and court remedies, but details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Eans Jjarnica
Witchhazel
Court Ister
Return to Love as Craig Reunites with Lois at Diana Mine
Craig, now rich from a silver mine, hosts a mounting house party at the Diana mine near Little Powder. A white serving crew, a catering arrangement by Mrs L F McBride, and a surprise Lois Fleming reappear, revealing she still loves him. They confess their enduring love and plan a future together.
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Craig Gillette
New York
Lois Fleming
Iie
Lois
Craig
Kirkland
Berger
Watson
Little Grayson
Dad
Trudy Kirkland
Pete
Jennings
Little Powder Gazette
L. F. McBride
Diana Mine
Cral
Mistah Craig
Sub
Stoney Ridge
Associated Literary Press
Quest for a true yellow sweet pea eludes breeders
The article notes long efforts by growers to create a clear yellow sweet pea despite existing ivory whites and pink-tinged varieties. An English gardener offered 5,000 pounds for a reliably fixed pure yellow bloom, hoping to crown the color range in recent pea introductions. The mystery persists over which variant, blue rose or yellow sweet pea, will arrive first.
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Holdy Baker
Antonio Lopez
Point O’ Woods
Baker
Hill
Jim Reynolds
Jamaica
Eddy Baker
Irene
Captain Goddard
IRS. L. F. W
Bride OF Little Powder
Olive Robert Barton
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