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      Fifty years on the Lakes Seventy-three Schooners then Hailed from Oswego. Today there are only eighteen sailing craft on the lake. Some remarkably quick trips between this port and Chicago- the Cortez, Captain John Farrell, holds the record. Fifty years ago April 22nd ...

      The Comanche's Famous Trip _______ Six Days and Eight Hours From Chicago to Oswego _______ Sailing records on the lakes by the old type canal schooners came in for a lively discussion at Parsons' ship chandlery store last night and Commodore Crimmins pointed ...

      May Float The Metzner __________ Believed That the Hull Is Uninjured - Quiet on Waterfront The windbound fleet that has been in the harbor for the past two days is getting away today, the heavy seas in the lake having run down with the wind, which blew itself out ...

      The Green Tug Line. Harry Green Recalls Some Pleasant Recollections of Thirty Years Ago. Harry Green, who with his father, Robert Green, and his brother, Benjamin F. Green, constituted one of the principal sailmaking firms of Oswego thirty odd years ago, has broken into ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 5 Aug 1916     Captain J.B. Hall's Death. ___ Prominent and Well Known Lake Captain Will be Buried in Oswego ____ Captain John B. Hall, of Buffalo, well known vessel master, died at his home in that city yesterday after a brief illness. He was one of ...

      Schooner Is In Distress _________ In Lake Ten Miles Off This Port With Sails Blown Away - Coast Guard to Rescue In the face of a heavy sea the United States Coast Guard crew in the powerful surfboat "Endeavor," at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon started out into the lake ...

      Drifted Apart, To Meet Here ____________ Steamer and Her Consort Had Thrilling Trip Down Lake. ____________ The Schooner Holmes Broke Away From the Steamer Gowne, Near Port Dalhousie Monday Night and Both Made This Port Early Last Evening - Canvas of Schooner Carried ...

      Sale of the 'Russell Sage' Old Steamer Will Have Machinery Removed and Made Into Tow Barge. The old steamer Russell Sage, or all that is left of her, and which for two or three years has been lying on the bottom of the new harbor near the Oswego Manufacturing Company's …

      Fish Tug Out in Big Gale _______ Braved Storm to Go to Galloup Islands for Fifteen Miles of Nets Set There. Sackets Harbor, Nov. 25 (Special) In the midst of the biggest storm of the year the fishing tug Liberty, of the Kolbe Fish Company, of Erie, went out yesterday …

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 26 Sep 1916     THREE SAVED: SIX DROWNED Steamer Roberval Capsized in the Lake. Bound to the Diamond Match Company with a Cargo of Lumber When the Deckload Shifted and the Little Steamer Turned Turtle in the Gather Gloom of Night Trapped in thousands of feet of seasoned lumber, five ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), Oct. 18, 1916     Famous Racers Of The Lakes _______ When the Porter Beat the Moonlight Into Milwaukee ________ Sailed by Captain Orville Green, an Oswego Master, Who Took the Sticks Out of Her Rather Than Take In His Canvas - Captain Dennis Sullivan of Chicago Was In the ...

 Oswego Palladium (Oswego, NY), 27 Sep 1916     Roberval's Crew Are Picked Up Seven of the Nine Are Now Accounted For Float on Improvised Rafts and Picked up at 5 o'clock Yesterday afternoon by the Coast Guard Boat at Big Sandy- Two are Missing Believed Both were Drowning The death toll of the foundered barge ...