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Muscatine Shell Boat Trip Reveals River Industry Ties
The Muscatine Journal details Captain Kennedy and a crew aboard the Lotus embarking May 2 to survey shell beds in the northern Mississippi. It describes shell diggers life, earnings from 12 to 20 dollars weekly, risks in rapids, and early camps near Dubuque and Prairie du Chien, with notes on local pilots and shelling sites along the river.
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Journal
Capt. Kennedy
Muscatine
Mississippi River
Fred Kennedy
Pearl City
Kennedy
Lotus
Shell
C. L. Martin
Kahoka
Martin
Dubuque
Guy Knapp
Stillwater
Minn
U.S
Geo. Knapp
Herman Grosswell
New York
Vera Kennedy
Esther Batterson
Red Wing
Diamond Bluffs
Louis Hubbard
Co. W. Knott
E. M. Hammond
Bill Hammond
Oquawka
Steven Irwin
Chas. Johnson and Family
Burlington
Chas. Simpson
All City
New Counry
Davenport
Rock Island
Musser
Rock
Government Island
F. Weyerhauser
Hennepin
LaClaire
Rapids City
Port Bryan
Clinton Bridge
Fulton
Sabula
Bellevue
Kit Carson
Town of
Eagle Point
St. Paul
Cassville Slough
Devil's Elbow
McGregor
McGregor Heights
Mississippi
Prairie du Chein
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