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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These scenes were filmed as a part of the "History of Massachusetts," upon which the Foundation has been working for some time. The movie will trace the history of the Bay State from its establishment down to the present...
...department of Geology, when queried about the quake last night, stated that he believed its point of origin to have been the Fundian Fault Zone, in the Gulf of Maine. At this point there is a very ancient fracture in the earth's crust, extending from the Bay of Fundy, Southwest, to the region of Cape Ann. That zone has caused so many earthquakes in the last three centuries that whenever one is felt near Boston, it is suspected as being the cause. The last tremor was felt about Boston on January 7, 1925. Professor Mather believes that there...
Lost & Found. The old steamer Fort St. James which the late Roald Amundsen used in the Arctic, is a Hudson Bay Company post in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed, explained that they were the Canadian exploring party who were lost with their two seaplanes two months ago in a snowstorm over Queen Maud Sea. Out of fuel, they alighted on the water and dragged their planes to shore. They did not know that they were only 40 miles from...
...Owensboro, Ky., a woman telephoned the police in the night, said a man was peeping in her window, that she was holding him at bay with a pistol. Rushing to the house, police found a cow, munching her cud, looking in the window...
This announcement was made yesterday by the Foundation, in connection with the first work to be done on their film, which will trace the history of the Bay State from its establishment down to the present day. The film is being produced in advance of the 1930 Massachusetts Tercentenary celebration, which will be celebrated in all towns and cities of the state at that time...