25,000 Dollar ‘Channel’ Swim

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

806-1

Date Released

3 Feb 1927

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Beagles in the Snow
2. 2£10,000 Worth of Alsatians
3. 3On the Heels of the ‘Reds’
4. 425,000 Dollar ‘Channel’ Swim
5. 5Stepping High and Lively
6. 6'Father of the Guards’
7. *Burying the Mascot!
8. *Burying the Mascot!

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

Seventeen year old George Young who swam 26 miles from Santa Catalina island to the Californian mainland.

Keywords

Sport

Length of story (in feet)

90

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Notes

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