Word: jamestown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jamestown...
...Twelve-year-old Jackie Lillie of Kinsman, Ohio sold his sorrel pony, Cocoa, to pay for his mother's funeral. At a horse sale in Jamestown, Pa., buyers returned Cocoa to Jackie with an extra...
...Jamestown...
...earliest and best paintings on show was Edward Savage's formal portrait of Commodore Abraham Whipple, the hard-bitten New Englander who won the first sea battle of the Revolution, off Jamestown, R.I. and later snatched eight ships by stealth from a British convoy of 150. Savage's Whipple, magnificently bedecked for the occasion in a scarlet, gold-braided waistcoat and cocked hat, looked duck-footed, paunchy, and tough as a saltwater Punch...
Evangelist Billy Sunday's 79-year-old widow, "Ma," went to Jamestown, N.Y., for a Gospel Missions convention, was hospitalized with a heart ailment...