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Anton came from Kiev to America to work fifty-cent days in her mines, at Zibby's Place - House of Fine Liquor he joined comrades to compare the grind, Na zdorovýe to your health and mine; he wed Ukraine Anastasia that year providing an outhouse, rings for the swine, plus biddies to grain and five slavs to rear, and the undulating ring for her left ear. We sniffed gram-pa's tin tubs on the porch, the wine jars, her churned butter, his dark beer, whiskered wafts of veranikes, vodka, borscht: Now we've grown, our brood can breathe where we've been-- guzzling, inherently, to good health at the inn.
The following (& at right) was gratefully obtained
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Built by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 1906. 3,602 gross tons; 340 (bp) feet long; 43 feet wide. Steam triple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 14 knots. 1,024 passengers (24 first class, 1,000 third class). Built for New York & Continental Line, British flag, in 1906 and named Volturno. Built for New York & Continental Line, British flag. Sold to Uranium Line, British flag,in 1910. Destroyed by fire in the North Atlantic on October 9, 1913. |
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