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Tugboats on the Mississippi: A Conversation with Jack Jackson
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Executive Summary
Baton Rouge Coal and Towing Company, founded by Joshua (J.C.) Wemer, Sr. in 1902, was a river steamboat and barge operation. The company originally serviced steamboats that used coal for fuel on the Mississippi River. The coal was mined in the Pittsburgh area, loaded on barges, transported down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers by stern-wheel steamboats, and then stored along the river banks. Finally, the coal was put on barges to directly supply river steamboats or used for residential and other commercial activities around Baton Rouge.
After managing the company successfully ...
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CHAPEL AT VU GETTING A FACE LIFT
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; PHOTO - 2 (1 COLOR) The Chapel of the Resurrection on the campus of...varnish near the huge pipe organ in the Chapel of the Resurrection. (Photo by David...and glass and marred the face of the chapel that towers 98 feet above the campus...
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Welsh Chapels in Crisis.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...appearance of these chapels before they disappear...trace. The Welsh chapel is the only architectural...attended weekly chapel. Chapels were not only places...Liberation Society; many chapel-goers became politically...Nonconformity -- its chapels and use of the Welsh...
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Chapel in the Kudzu: a decades-old promise is kept with the construction of a country wedding chapel for a special girl.
Magazine article from: Mississippi Magazine
; ...ready to get married, they would build a chapel for her wedding. Such an incredible promise...boy, the ring and the date. Where's the chapel?" Mitchell asked. "I had planned to build a chapel (for years)," explains Freeman, a multi...
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CHAPEL PLAN STILL CHAFES CATHOLIC FAITHFUL REMAIN UNSETTLED OVER FATE OF ST. MARY'S OLD FACILITY
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press
; ...might have been the final service at the embroiled chapel Thursday morning. A group of about 30 hospital...move the Eucharist from the large, freestanding chapel to a new small, interim chapel located in the Women and Children's Hospital...
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Airport chapels offer haven to more faiths
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...faithful who make a stop in the chapel. Across the country, chapels designed to offer passengers...having four or five very small chapels, we've got one nice-sized chapel," he said, referring to chapels across the country. "And it...
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Chapel a popular spot for Indiana U. students, alumni to wed
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Walking into Beck Chapel is like disappearing into warm memories...fulfilled within the walls. No wonder the chapel means so much to so many. To Chris and Alicia Dickens, Beck Chapel signifies love and romance. Having just...
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Daily Chapel Provides Time To Pause, Reflect
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service
; ...been dismissed, and the bells in Boe Memorial Chapel's tower are ringing. The next class period...students, faculty and staff make their way to Boe Chapel to participate in the ritual of daily chapel. This brief, 20-minute service of scripture...
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Chapel Hill Broadband, Bandwidth.com Forge Partnership.
Business Wire
; Business Editors/High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C. & SALT LAKE CITY...Broker of Wholesale Telecommunications Chapel Hill Broadband, a carrier-neutral broker...brokering wholesale telecommunications deals, Chapel Hill Broadband's staff of telecom professionals...
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Chapel, 100, gets new lease on life
Newspaper article from: Winnetka Talk (IL)
; A 100-year-old chapel on Pine Street, once a spiritual meeting...are housed in an adjoining hall. The chapel, at Lincoln Avenue and Pine Street...Sunday service and Bible studies in the chapel, named the Children's Chapel, until...
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CHAPEL'S WINDOWS TO COME OUT FIRST
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press
; ...s Medical Center officials say their chapel will be prepared for demolition Friday...center responded their client can level the chapel to make room for a $12 million heart...center is not obligated to maintain the chapel in its current form forever. "Our attorneys...
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