{"id":1403,"date":"2012-04-30T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2012-04-30T01:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T01:27:13","slug":"steamer-jack-frost-april-29-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Steamer JACK FROST April 29, 1887"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Memphis Commercial Mid-South Memories April 29, 2012 reported &#8220;The steamer JACK FROST left yesterday for the Illinois River with three empty ice barges.\u00a0 Its return with the barges filled will be eagerly awaited by those wishing to slake their thirst with a cool drink.&#8221;\u00a0 April 29, 1887.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bohlen Huse Ice Company which was operated various\u00a0times my great grandfather James Lee Jr along with my great uncle Bayliss Lee who later served as an officier after working for Lee Brothers Co. (which was the sole supplier to the Lee Line Steamers Co.)\u00a0 In the early and mid 1890&#8217;s the businesses called itself the Bohlen Huse Lake and Machine Ice Co, indicating that northern lake ice was brought to Memphis to meet the demand that man made ice could not satisfy.\u00a0 The Bohlen Huse Ice Company operated the first artesian well in Memphis.\u00a0\u00a0The business\u00a0owned a farm in the Raleigh area of what is now Memphis where mules were rested from their jobs pulling ice wagons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Commercial Mid-South Memories April 29, 2012 reported &#8220;The steamer JACK FROST left yesterday for the Illinois River with three empty ice barges.\u00a0 Its return with the barges filled will be eagerly awaited by those wishing to slake their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1403\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-mD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}