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                A NOTE IN A BOTTLE
             Kingston, Whig-Standard
             
             Finding of a note in a bottle,
           after it had drifted about the wa-
           ters of the Great Lakes for 21
           years, was like a message from
           the dead, for the writer of the
           note had been Capt. James Owen,
           who went down with his boat, the
           Henry B. Smith, together with his
           crew of 23.  Captain Owen, former-
           ly of Kingston and Brockville, had
           placed a note in a bottle during
           the terrible storm of the fall of
           1913 and while his boat was fast
           sinking, and it was only recently
           that the bottle was found.
             The terrible storm of the fall of
           1913 was perhaps the most severe
           ever experienced on the lakes and
           in all 27 vessels went to the bot-
           tom with death toll of more than
           250.
             The Henry B. Smith had set out
           in November and ran into the
           teeth of the storm.  Some days
           after the abating of the storm the
           body of a cook was recovered.
           That was all the owners ever heard
           of the ship.
             But the finding of the bottle
           brought back memories of that
           awful storm. In the bottle was
           the following message.  "Sunday
           morning.  To the Hawgood Steam-
           ship Co., Cleveland.  Finder please
           forward.  The Henry B. Smith
           broke in two opposite hatch 5 about
           12 miles out of Marquette.  We are
           having an awful time.  James
           Owen, Capt."
                            
            Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
               Sunday, March 31, 1935
                    
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