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...almost equal number of grants are offered to students from particular towns or parts of states such as the Edmund Ira Richards Fund for students from North Attleboro, Mass. and the Sewall Grant for "such as shall be sent from Petaquamscot (in the Narragansett Country), English or Indians, if any such there...
Last Tuesday's announcement by the Schlitz Brewery of Milwaukee of a price boost of two or three cents on each quart of beer will soon be followed by Blatz and also all eastern breweries, such as Narragansett, Harvard. Bowdoin, Ballentine, Ruppert...
...Charles River was not the same several million years ago in the pre-glacial era. At that time, it probably took the most obvious shortcut to the ocean at Narragansett Bay, considerably south of its present mouth. In those days, the Charles was just an agglomeration of several smaller streams. Then, only two million years ago, there was a great uplift in the land area followed by a street of glacial ice down from the Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into...
Last week, the two met for the first time, in the Narragansett Special. The weights were Armed 130, Lucky Draw 123. Completely recovered from the bad tendon that kept him out of action all last year, Lucky Draw came home in 1:543/5 to equal Challedon's world record for a mile and three-sixteenths. Armed ran third, almost four lengths behind. The question of which would be the "horse of the year" would be decided-at even weights-in November's Pimlico Special...
Vinland Story. Reviewing the story (itself as much legend as history) of Leif Ericson's trip from Greenland to "Vinland'' about 1000 A.D., he decides that Vinland must have been somewhere in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay. Three centuries later, he notes, a certain Paul Knutson was ordered by the King of Norway and Sweden to lead an expedition in search of Greenland colonists who were reported to have forsaken Christianity and moved away. Where would they go? Vinland, naturally. So off Knutson and his men sailed for Narragansett Bay; they arrived there...