People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Eighteen Hundred Miles in a Shell. [ARTICLE]

Eighteen Hundred Miles in a Shell.

Manistee, Mich., Aug. 25. F. G. Appley, of Pawtucket, R. 1., rowing to the fair on a wager, arrived at the mouth of the Manistee river Wednesday in an aluminum shell 84 feet long, 10% inches beam, deck 1-looth part of an inch, hull l-64th part of an inch, weight 28 pounds. He looks in good condition and has rowed l,Bo(fmiles.