Wreck of the Marconi, 1910

Post card from Nellie Bernitt in Marshfield to Will Kolm in Schuyler, Nebraska, postmarked April 8, 1910.

The four-masted schooner Marconi was being towed out of Coos Bay on March 23, 1909 laden with lumber for Valparaiso. The hawser (towing rope) parted about midway over the Coos Bay Bar and she was driven onto the south spit and broken up by the pounding surf.

Will: Please donxt join[?] the National Guards...tell you later ----y. It makes me nervous when I think of it. Got your letter just..., and will answer it tomorrow. Got into my head you joined the Guard. Hope[?] not. Nell

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