Seafaring Sleuth Locates Missing Seamen Worldwide
Mrs. Shirley Wessel, 53, heads the Bureau of Missing Seamen from a New York office. She tracks about 400 seamen yearly using a typewriter, telephone, and interviews. The bureau, born in World War I, posts its missing list in 1,200 seafaring hubs and requires no fees or legal aid.
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New York
Seven Seas
Shirley Wessel
Bureau of Missing Seamen
BMS
Sherlock Holmes
Bureau
Bureau of
County Home Group To Meet Feb 12
The Butler County Home Council Alumnae will hold a coffee club luncheon meeting on Tuesday February 12. Coffee at 9 45 am at the American Legion 116 N 2nd St Hamilton followed by a noon luncheon at Eaton Manor. Reservations via LE 9 7218 or RA 3 2328.
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Butler County Home Council
American Legion
N. 2Nd St
Hamilton
Eaton Manor
Middletown Girl Scout Day Camp Committee Meets Monday
The Middletown Area Girl Scout Council day camp committee will meet tomorrow at noon in the clubroom. Mrs. Norman Marks will preside.
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Middletown Area
Girl Scout Council
Girl Scout
Norman Marks
Port of Missing Men Bulletin Aids Sea Families
Relatives write the Seamen's Church Institute for word of missing seamen. Janet Lord Roper created the port of missing men bulletin, now a global bureau with files on sailors from many nations. Since WWI the effort has located 11,400 men, averaging better than one a day recently. The most unusual case involved a seaman Ned whose wife feared him missing. a later report said he resided among Polynesian girls, and he did not care that he was found.
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Mrs. Wessel
Bureau
Melbourne
Latvia
America
Wessel
Chicago
Seaman’s Church Institute
Janet Lord Roper
Spade Fish of the Atlantic Noted for Culinary Value
The spade fish or angel fish of the Atlantic Ocean is described as nearly circular in shape and highly valued as a food delicacy by coastal communities.
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Atlantic Ocean
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Howard Benedict
Australia
Rochester
N.Y
Orleans
Valen
Thiriield’s Boys’ and Men's Dept
Thirkield’s
B. L. Dawson G&g CO
Buick
Bwick
Transportat
Betver Aljtomob., Sueck Weis Butls Teel
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