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Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
Utopia. In Truro, Mass., the town selectmen lost David Francis, the one-man police department, to the Coast Guard, decided he had been a luxury, decided not to replace...
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...invader, flanking him if he gets through and tries to enter the St. Lawrence. For an invader once established, Halifax is only 369 mi. from Boston, has a Royal Canadian Air Force field at Dartmouth from which land-based aircraft could operate. There are also land-plane fields at Truro, Halifax and Yarmouth, across the Bay of Fundy from Franklin Roosevelt's summer vacation spot at Campobello Island. (North of Halifax is the village of Grand Pré where Britain's ruthless handling in 1755 of a political minority was hexametred by Longfellow in Evangeline...
...Born in Truro, Joseph Hunkin studied mathematics and tutored at Cambridge's Gonville & Caius College (pronounced and called "Keys"; the Gonville is usually silent) before he went into the Church. During the War he was chaplain of the 29th Division, British Expeditionary Force, won his Military Cross for working among wounded soldiers at the front after being twice gassed. Shy, bespectacled little Dr. Hunkin later became dean of "Keys," was appointed Bishop of Truro in 1935. His diocese embraces the county of Cornwall, four parishes in Devonshire and the windswept Scilly Isles off Land's End. Year...