Word: champlain
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...boat chuffed along the greening, creek-cut shore of Lake Champlain near Burlington, Vt., an afternoon last week. Men of the third New England Recreational Conference had lunched and in easy chairs were giving flitting attention to ways of enticing the U. S. to play among New England's unquestionable beauties. Last year Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island spent $107,500 of public money on advertising their state values...
Through the narrow, shaggy valleys of Vermont, where flood waters boiled three months ago, a train of seven Pullman cars climbed, last week, from St. Albans near Lake Champlain to Waterbury in the Green Mountains. Thence it descended, with a 45-minute stop at Montpelier, the State capital, to White River Junction on the New Hampshire borderline. Cheered at way-stations, drowned in noise at cities, it was a symbol of Vermont's recovery from her catastrophe of last autumn, the first through train over the State's main artery of transportation, the Central Vermont R. R. Among...
...into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted an$8,500,000 $8,500,000 bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan the St.Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. $300,000 from State funds; expressed their sorrow at the death of Lieutenant-Governor S. Hollister Jackson, drowned at Barre...
...rivulets, into the brooks and small rivers, into the big Connecticut River, which is the boundary of Vermont and New Hampshire; into the Merrimac in New Hampshire; into the Hoosick River, which drops to the Hudson out of Vermont and Massachusetts; into Otter Creek, which flows northwest into Lake Champlain; into the Winooski, which tumbles through the Green Mountains for 60 miles...
...forget it. Alone then but for ourselves we continued our slow climb. I had never been so high before except once at Revere Beach and that time old Aunt Kate took me to the top of the Woolworth Building. And yet here I was high above the waters of Champlain, working my way even higher. And then it snowed, snowed with the fury of ten unhappy children and a spanked grand-child...