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...Frank Emory, personal representative of Fred W. Green, Governor of Michigan, hauled into the President's presence an album measuring one yard on each side. In the album was a history of Mackinac Island and views of the Island estate of Mrs. Alvin T. Hert of Kentucky, vice chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...Sainte Marie, ice-breaking car ferry, tucked up her gear last week, flirted a rudder at the mush of ice coming down St. Mary's River from Lake Superior, and swaggered back to her winter's work of hauling railroad cars across the Strait of Mackinac. Under her Captain F. A. Bailey and with the aid of tugs she had broken up the river ice and thus released the worst traffic jam in Great Lakes' shipping history...
...week's end, the Sainte Marie, largest ice crusher in the world, swaggered over from the Strait of Mackinac, where she does regular winter duty. Like a burly policewoman, she pushed her way through crashing, shrieking ice to see what the trouble was. Where the pack was solid, she would back away, and, with a schlup and a slide and a scream of steam, she was high out of water, half on top of the ice. The ice would yield, like an overpacked trunk when a big woman sits on its lid. Slowly she bashed...
...President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators Lenroot and Willis, to ask the President to oppose an ocean ship canal through New York to the Great Lakes (see THE CONGRESS...
Died. William R. Day ("Silent Man"), Secretary of State under President McKinley, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S., 1903-1922; at Mackinac Island, Mich., of bronchitis...