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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lady Elgin banquets end

Date: 1907-09-01
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lady Elgin sunk in lake disaster 61 years ago

Date: 1921-09-07
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Last survivor of famous great lakes sailing vessels doomed to scrap heap

Date: 1922-02-26
County: Manitowoc
City: Manitowoc
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Last of sailing ships has gone

Date: 1923-01-25
County: Manitowoc
City: Manitowoc
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Tells of early ship building

Date: 1909-02-22
County: Manitowoc
City: Manitowoc
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Shipbuilding industry of 1867 and other items of interst gleaned from old relic of newspaper

Date: 1918-08-29
County: Manitowoc
City: Manitowoc
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Louis Bleyer dead

Date: 1903-05-15
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old marine reporter dead

Date: 1901-05-15
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old mariner passes away

Date: 1903-05-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Louis Bleyer passes away

Date: 1903-05-15
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

A half century of sailing Great Lakes

Date: 1931-04-12
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Capt. H. M. Boyce is 81 years old; 55 years on lake

Date: 1933-04-26
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Long abandoned wharf near Port Washington, used in pioneer days to refuel steamers, marks spot where the Toledo went down, with loss of all but 2 lives

Date: 1931-10-25
County: Ozaukee
City: Port Washington
Newspaper Article/Clipping

'Norway to Wisconsin' diners talk seaway

Date: 1933-06-18
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Norse rigger slips away: a 'painted ship' from older day to Milwaukee onlookers

Date: 1933-06-20
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Sunday is anniversary of harrowing tragedy

Date: 1932-10-15
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan
Newspaper Article/Clipping

First ship from city to sea took grain; herring came back

Date: 1937-12-31
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Reminiscential

Date: 1873-04-06
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the burning of the Phoenix with a loss of life of nearly three hundred

Date: 1922-11-20
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Recalls sinking of Phoenix off Sheboygan in '47

Date: 1924-04-06
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan

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