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| John Brooks Beach This Morning. |
I went out to the beach this morning. It looked like a summer beach. Sand is accumulating and the water was near flat. Very nice, but hot.
Most beaches looked the same. I didn't bother to photograph Frederick Douglass.
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| South of Blind Creek. |
South of Blind Creek it looked like someone had been blowing holes near shore (above) so I took this photo. Just a short while later a small boat with a mailbox showed up and parked north of the Power Plant.
I did a little beach metal detecting and was surprised by the number of modern coins found. That was the first time I'd done any detecting for a while.
I also picked up a few of those tent stakes. I'm glad to have them because I use them to stake Christmas decorations. I'm always glad to get something useful at the beach.
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Beach. |
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| Fort Pierce South Jetty Park This Morning. |
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Changing channels I ran across one of the Curse TV programs last night - Curse of Civil War Gold. I managed to watch it for a few minutes before they started with the same old stuff - making random bits of rusty junk out to be kin to the Holy Grail and putting very dubious dates on items.
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Joe R. said, I picked up $100 in rolled quarters today and found four with the "W" mint mark.
Neat!
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| Old Iron Mystery Object. |
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| Cracked California Fig Syrup Company Bottle. |
If you find any old bottles with small cracks, it seems sitting around in the Florida heat can make the cracks grow. That happened to his bottle.
The California Fig Co. opened at Reno, Nevada, in 1878, selling its only product, Syrup of Figs. The firm had a rocky beginning, reorganizing twice before it achieved success with the final 1897 corporation. The Sterling Remedy Co. purchased the California Fig Co. in 1912, and it remains in business to the present. California Fig packaged its products in a total of six different embossed bottles as well as at least one variation used in England. In addition, the different incarnations of the firm used generic bottles with paper labels both before and after the adoption of the embossed containers – an apparently common phenomenon in remedies successful enough to remain popular from the 1870s to the 20th century...
The above bottle appears to me to be post-1917.
Here is a link for more about that.
https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/CaliforniaFigSyrup.pdf
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