Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...
...Some years ago two young men sailed a small boat, built on the south shore of Cape Cod, to the purchaser at Marblehead. As they rounded the Cape a thick fog came on, and thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock...
...Johannesburg and Cape Town, riots by native blacks accompanied the unfurling of the new flag. Misguided agents of the extreme pro-British faction, who wish to continue under the "Union Jack," had still further misguided the Afric blacks into believing the absurd bit of blather that the new flag would mean their enslavement. Fired by this preposterous notion, the natives massed and howled protests against what they called the "coffin flag." Shouting "Away with Slavery!" they tore down the new banner in numerous instances. Meanwhile 100% British Islanders drove through Johannesburg and Cape Town, waving the Union Jack and shouting...
...matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to Cape Town...
...husbands of the two flying Ladies also figured in the news. Said Sir Abe Bailey, 63, owner of diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...