The Archive · 1938

"CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" Freddie Bartholomew Spencer Tracy

Lionel Barrymore Melvyn Douglas Charley Grapewin Mickey Rooney John Carradine freezing night.

Electric power failed in Manistee, Mich, when the heavy wet snow and raging winds damaged power lines and made immediate repairs impossible, Firemen at Marquette braved sub-zero weather to fight a fire which endangered large areas of the city for hours during the peak of the blizzard. Three downtown buildings were destroyed before the fire finally was brought under control.

Coast Guard workers meanwhile were seeking a group of fishermen feared lost when their flimsy cottage was blown into Lake Macatawa. The fishermen were believed inside the little house when the raging blizzard picked it off the ground and rolled it into the lake,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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