Ranger Paul Jones Hunts Maidstone Off Reefs
While cruising the Ranger crew chases the English ship Maidstone among reefs. A beautifully described woman is seen aboard the wreck.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1903
Page
11
While cruising the Ranger crew chases the English ship Maidstone among reefs. A beautifully described woman is seen aboard the wreck.
Lieutenant O Neill braves wreckage and roaring seas to save two women aboard the Maidstone after a reef strike. A final daring rope ascent, a dramatic descent into a cabin, and the wounded hero passes out as the ship breaks up. One woman is saved and the other cast ashore. The scene shifts to a stockholders notice for Illinois Central Railroad with meeting details.
Readers are invited to travel to Portland Seattle Tacoma Victoria and Vancouver at 46 55 for a round trip with a return by October 15 1903. Stopovers allowed in both directions and passengers may take different routes going and returning. Inquiries directed to A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
Society cards for the Brotherhood of American Yeomen Muscatine Homestead No 336 and Muscatine Lodge No 6 plus Miriam Lodge No 27 D of R Prairie Encampment No 4 and Iowa Lodge No 2 A F and A M list meeting schedules officers and locations in Muscatine including G A R hall Herebey bank and local lodges with weekly and monthly meeting times and officers named.
Steamer Helen Blair carries Davenport trips Monday Wednesday Friday at 6 30 am and Sunday 7 am returning evenings. Burlington service runs Monday Wednesday Friday at 8 30 pm.
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