Ice Patrol Vets Describe North Atlantic Duty After Titanic
Lieutenant Bennett, aboard the cutter Winona, explains the revenue cutters Miami and Seneca patrolled the North Atlantic from Halifax during April to June to locate icebergs, chart currents, and relay daily wireless reports to protect trans Atlantic ships after the Titanic disaster. Only one vessel struck icebergs that season, a British tramp. The operation aimed to prevent repeat tragedies and relied on three weekly wireless repeats across 1,040 miles.
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North Atlantic
Seneca
Miami
Bennett
Halifax
Nova Scotia
New Homes Rise Across Mobile Suburbs
Real estate activity surges in Mobile suburbs with many cottages, bungalows, and two story houses under construction along Michigan avenue and Government street loop. Builders note brisk season, with four brick business houses rising at Dauphin and Cedar and several rehabs and new residences planned on Michigan avenue and nearby blocks.
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Michigan Avenue
Government Street Loop
Government Street
Conception
Lower Government Street
Commerce
Dauphin and
Cedar
Mobile
Duggan & Taylor
H. L. McConnell
Catherine Street
Robert Wyndham
Wyndham
Government
Espejo Street
Loop
Fluton Road
Kirk Wilson
Lafayette Street
Penting
Spring Hill Avenue
Bergs and patrol life on ships during iceberg season
The account describes long patrols watching for bergs, the monotony and rain soaked nights at sea, and the bergs ranging from sixty to one hundred feet high and six hundred to one thousand feet long. It notes the Gulf Stream pushing bergs northward and the British tramp steamer damage limited to a bow hole above the waterline.
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Mr. Bennett
Mobile
Key West
Fla
Miami
Bennett
Lowenstein Apartments
Government Street
Foley Kidney Pills Help Daughter Recover, Says Father
The daughter of A. Mitchell of Bagdad Kentucky suffered kidney trouble and was believed permanently harmed. Mr. Mitchell claims she improved after taking Foley Kidney Pills, which he says cured her completely and notes the medicine as safe dependable and honest with no harmful habit forming drugs. Van Antwerp Drug.
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A. Mitchell
Bagdad
Mitchell
Foley
van Antwerp
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Atlantic
Winona
Newfoundland Banks
Lieutenant Bennett
Severa
Sty
Dauphin
Government St
Dauphin ST
Hammel’s
Saxony
OYC
Warrerr
Marseilles
Sea Island
Meio
Pelied
Emaned, N
Lelbeaden
Fine Nee ‘Amoskeag
Dressingham
Ladies’ Lisle Union Suits
Lisle
Ings
Amma Wew
York
Paris
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