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    The Calumet was the second lake freighter of that name. The vessel was built in Detroit, Michigan, in 1929, by the Great Lakes Engineering Works. For her...
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  • Calumet (East Chicago) Calumet, Colorado Calumet, Iowa Calumet, Michigan Calumet, Minnesota Calumet, Missouri Calumet, Ohio Calumet, Oklahoma Calumet...
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    renamed David Z.. The ship was sold to Rand Logistics in 2008, being renamed Calumet, after the original Calumet, built in 1929 for US Steel, which was...
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    commissioned as USS Calumet (SP-723) on 7 December 1917. Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Calumet served for the rest of World War I as a guard ship and harbor...
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  • The 1,600 ships are listed in order of the date of their launch. This list covers the period 1859–1929. SS Venetian (Yard No.1), cargo ship for J Bibby...
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    Lake Michigan rather than into it. The related Calumet-Saganashkee Channel does the same for the Calumet River a short distance to the south, joining the...
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    Calumet Township (/ˌkæljʊˈmɛt/ KAL-yuu-MET), officially the Charter Township of Calumet, is a charter township of Houghton County in the Upper Peninsula...
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  • SS Bruges (1920) HMS Bulldog (1909) HMS Caesar (R07) SS Calgary (1920) SS Calumet (1922) HMAS Canberra (D33) HMS Canterbury (1916) MV Cape St Vincent (1966)...
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    linear feet) of ship and barge berthing. Grain (14 million bushels) and bulk liquid (800,000 barrels) storage facilities along Lake Calumet. The Illinois...
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    the Saint Lawrence Seaway to deep water ships. The Port of Chicago was moved from Navy Pier to Lake Calumet. The lake was converted to a deep water turning...
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  • covered in quicklime, is discovered buried in a shallow grave near the Calumet River in the village of Burnham on January 5, 1927. It is determined that...
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    voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning of 15 April 1912, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 passengers and crew. The ship's passengers...
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    growth in the 1840s during the construction of the feeder canal (now the Calumet Sag Channel) for the Illinois and Michigan Canal and as the center of a...
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    Hegewisch neighborhood and, after crossing the Bishop Ford Freeway and the Calumet River, converges with the Metra Electric line south of Kensington/115th...
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    1956 Repowered 1968 Sold to Grand River Navigation in 2001 and renamed Calumet Collided with a harbor wall, this event would lead to her being scrapped...
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    the formerly great Calumet and Hecla was purchased by Universal Oil and became the company's Calumet division. By this time the Calumet and Hecla's original...
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    Mayonnaise, Jell-O, Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House, and many more. In 1929, Postum Cereal Company was renamed General Foods Corporation. While taking...
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    William Liston Brown (category 1929 deaths)
    American Ship Building Company, Detroit Ship Building Company, First National Bank of Chicago, the First Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago, Calumet Transit...
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    1934 — Hudson - (USCG Calumet-class harbor tug) 4 of 10 United States Porpoise-class submarines 1935 — Porpoise - sank 2 ships in 6 World War II Pacific...
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    hose on hand and that the water supply was ample. In 1872 the Hancock and Calumet Railroad (H&C RR) and the Mineral Range Railroad (MRRR) began their operations...
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    them. In 1873 the Finnish Laestadians started their own congregation at Calumet, Michigan. By 1906 the Laestadian or Apostolic Lutheran movement in America...
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    renamed Elton Hoyt 2nd, then sold again in September 1929 to Youngstown Steamship Co. In both cases, ship was managed by Pickands Mather. Interlake Steamship...
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    President of the United States, as well as a Congressman Lewis Stevenson (1868–1929), son of Adlai, served as Illinois Secretary of State. Adlai Stevenson II...
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    shipbuilding division and entered wartime small ship design and construction. The yard was located near Lake Calumet in Chicago, on the north side of 130th Street...
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    developed a patented pasteurization process for cheese, allowing it to be shipped long distances, making him the first to patent processed cheese. J. L....
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  • wounded. Genna gave up on muscling in on the old Genna territory and fled to Calumet City. On November 8, 1931, Vincenzo Genna died of heart disease. His remaining...
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    President Barack Obama); the eastern portion of Ashburn; parts of Avalon Park, Calumet Heights, Chicago Lawn, Douglas, Grand Boulevard, Hyde Park, Morgan Park...
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    significant tourist attraction in the region. Additionally, the village of Calumet is home to an annual Pasty Festival. Many ethnic groups adopted the pasty...
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    Museum 1884 Syndicate Block, shop buildings in Pipestone, Minnesota The Calumet Inn, Pipestone, Minnesota Several buildings at the South Dakota School...
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    SS Andaste (category Maritime incidents in 1929)
    Ship Building Company for the Lake Superior Iron Company. The vessel is best known for sinking on Lake Michigan on the night of September 9–10, 1929,...
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