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Raging up Narragansett Bay, wind and water struck Providence, short circuiting all power. A 300,000 cu.-ft. gas tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
Marooned amidst the wreckage of Cape Cod homes for nearly a week while serving with the National Guards, the youths whose military swagger lacked the finesse of their older associates admitted a longing for the leisure of Cambridge life...
...crowded as China's famed Han River at Hankow. Instead of jostling sampans, junks and tiny tugs the jostlers were Pirates, Buccaneers, Bulldogs, Snipes. It was the Larchmont Yacht Club's 40th annual Race Week, No. 1 outing for North Atlantic sailors south of Cape Cod...
...Morgenthaus to their farm at Fishkill, N. Y.; the Woodrings to Cape Cod; the Cummingses to California; Mr. Farley & children en route to Alaska (sec p. 13); the Wallaces to Colorado; the Ropers and Madam Perkins in England...
...Steaming for Hyde Park on the Potomac, the President was delayed for 14 hours by fog in the Cape Cod Canal, gave his staff ashore quite a turn...