Belgian Decoration For General Parker
General Samuel D. Parker of the Massachusetts State Guard received the Order of the Crown during the Belgian royal visit to Boston. The decoration, conferred by Reddington Fiske of the Belgian consulate, was awarded at State Guard headquarters 83 Beacon Street in front of Parker’s full staff.
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Samuel D. Parker
Massachusetts State Guard
Boston
Order of the Crown
State Guard
Beacon Street
Reddington Fiske
Famed Old Almanac Returns for 128th Year with Wit
The Farmer's Almanac, in yellow covers, makes its 128th bow to the New England public. It blends poetry and housewife hints with quips from 19th century poems and jokes about idealists, promising continued youth in spirit.
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New England
Leman
John G. Saxe
Vermont
Bobbie
50-Ton Rocking Stone on Barren Ridge
CORNISH Me Nov 7 One of the strangest freaks of nature in this section is the big rocking stone on a barren slope of a F P Chick pasture. It weighs nearly 50 tons and is so well balanced a child can move it. The roughly culiform stone measures about eight feet on a side and rests on a double bearing. Thousands of berry-pickers have visited the stone and its delicate adjustment remains unfazed.
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Cornish
F. P. Chick
Cape Cod Canal Operated at Loss Since 1918 Takeover
Ambrose P. Smith, auditor for the canal company, testified in the federal suit to set a fair purchase price that from July 25, 1918 to Sept. 30 this year the Cape Cod Canal ran a deficit of 227 733 dollars. The case is slated to resume Armistice Day next Tuesday as all parties seek a swift resolution.
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Cape Cod
Ambrose P. Smith
Whipple
Canal tolls and profits questioned in Stebbins testimony
Mr. Smith testified receipts total $612 915 and current operating expenses $790 649. Cross examined by Attorney Sherman I Whipple he conceded towage is the largest cost and removing it would yield about $28 000 profit. Archibald D Stebbins of Merchants and Miners said ships do not pass the canal because captains are timid and tolls not justified. Whipple pressed whether captains prefer Vineyard and Nantucket sounds or the long outside route. August Belmont, canal company president, sat in the bar enclosure during testimony.
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Morton
Whipple
Vineyard
Nantucket
Stebbins
August Belmont
Canal Company
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