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...that he didn't catch an eel." The first town settled was Eastham, and the first inhabitants came from the Plymouth settlement. But it is Mr. Lincoln's theory, based on deduction, that the settlers came by sea. For we are given to understand that our Pilgrim Fathers were men of commonsense and piety, and according to Mr. Lincoln, no one of commonsense would even attempt the Cape Cod roads, and nobody could possibly navigate them and remain pious...
...account of his many statements in favor of preserving Anglo-American friendship. Major Putnam is a member of the publishing house of that name, and has been prominent as an author and in public life. He was one of the committee who entertained the foreign delegates to the Pilgrim Tercentenary celebration last fall...
Three hundred years ago the Pilgrim colonists first grounded their shallop upon the shores of Cape Cod, and established a new race and traditions which were destined to spread across continents and throughout nations. Three hundred years is but a short span of the world's life, yet human memory is sometimes shorter. How fitting is it, then, that on this day we should turn for a time from out shuttles, and books, and plowshares, to remember and do homage to the courage of the Pilgrims and to the ideals which led them forward...
...AMERICAN PILGRIM'S WAY IN ENGLAND...
...Universities of Harvard and Yale, the First President of the United States, and other illustrious Americans, by Marcus B. Huish, L.L.B., with 130 illustrations, 60 in color by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Title page executed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London. Contents: Raleigh, Three Dorsetshire Worthies, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Pilgrim Fathers, The Passing of the Pilgrims, Three Pilgrim Leaders, Captain Miles Standish, Governor Wilson, John Carver, The First Governors of the Colony of Massachusetts, the Founder of Harvard, John Harvard, and such famous men as Elihu Yale, George Washington, Franklin, William Penn and Paul Jones. One of the most attractive books...