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The Bottle on the Ice: Alice Bettridge's Last Twenty-Two Words
The Bottle on the Ice: Alice Bettridge's Last Twenty-Two Words
A single glass bottle, half-buried in Agawa River ice in December 1928, contained a folded note of exactly twenty-two words written by a dying woman on an island in Lake Superior - one year after the SS Kamloops vanished with all hands. How did a bottle survive the winter to become the only firsthand testimony of a ship that disappeared without a distress call, and what did Alice Bettridge actually write?
In this episode, we tell the story contained in that bottle and the larger loss it hints at. You will hear what the note…
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