Shipments of iron ore and limestone on the Great Lakes were down for October, according to the latest figures from trade ...

Over Lake Superior last week blew a strong northwest wind. At Duluth it loosened ice floes at the harbor mouth, and the freighter John Gehm, first vessel to clear since last December, steamed out with ...

Off Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, ...