Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest to students of archeology and ancient history are several paintings of reliefs from Xerxe's 100 column hall and other scenes on the Persepolis terrace done in the style of Joseph Lindon Smith. Some pencil sketches done in Iran and snow scenes in the Himalayas complete the collection...
Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...
Mount Mansfield, at Stowe, Vt., has twelve inches of solidly frozen snow which has remained from the storms of early January. The conditions are too icy to permit any trail skiing and the Notch Road is marked by bare wind-swept spaces on the Stowe side. The only good skiing is to be found on the Jeffersonville side for a distance of two miles down from Smuggler's Notch. Woodstock, in Vermont, reports fair skiing on the open slopes...
...Western Massachusetts open slope skiing is reported at Greenfield. The trails on Greylock are insufficiently covered to allow any running but some of the open slopes on the north side of the mountain have two inches of powder snow over a thin frozen base...
...Week End Snow Train for White River Jet., Vt., Lisbon and Littleton, N. H. scheduled for January 16-17 Cancelled. Snow train scheduled for Fabyan through Crawford Notch Sunday, Jan. 17, cancelled...