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Never before in the history of scales has such a tremendous undertaking taken place in America. Rising sheer above the frozen waters, ice covered, of the lake discovered by Champlain and called after hind, Lake Champlain, rises Mt. Slowly, towering to the full glory of its two thousand feet...
...brown-haired, sweet-faced, sunny-tempered little girl whose name was Grace Goodhue, and she lived not many years ago in Burlington, Vt., on the shore of lovely Lake Champlain. Her name is now Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and she lives in the White House in Washington. Most of us when our span of life is run are found to have been very much the same from year to year, and those who have known her all her life say that Grace Coolidge is very like Grace Goodhue, even very much like wee Grace Goodhue, who rode in her tall springy...
...graciously yielded the spotlight to his wife, who was surrounded by a merry group of girls from the University of Vermont, the First Lady's Alma Mater. "Hello, Sally," she said. "Why, Mary, is this your boy?" All then, including Mrs. Coolidge, joined in a hearty rendition of "Champlain," the U. of V. college song, after which rustic Attorney General Sargent joined the party...
...sloop of 18 guns, was built in 1780 by John Hemphreys ol Philadelphia, who later built the frigates Constitution, Constellation, etc. On Oct. 9. 1780, she captured four British vessels. Saratoga II, which mounted 26 guns and displaced 734 tons,† was flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain. From her Commodore MacDonough sent this despatch to Secretary of the Navy Madison: "Sir, the Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory." Saratoga III, a sloop of 22 guns and 1,025 tons, was launched in 1842, suppressed slave-trade off the African coast, went to Japan with...
...York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem not to have been very clear and the exact point of the disturbance was not easily determined. No damage...