Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average steamer time from dock to dock, New York to San Francisco is 18 days, time between steamers in addition. True, we have 16-day delivery by Panama Pacific Line steamers, California, Virginia and soon the Pennsylvania, but sailing every 14 days, the average becomes much longer...
Journalistic historians last week looked back to see what manner of newspaper was the Virginia Gazette of colonial times...
...official organ" of the Virginia government, the Gazette was slow in taking public notice of the Revolution. On an inside page of the issue dated May 13, 1775, readers learned of "skirmishes" in New England which had taken place April 19. One despatch, unsigned, read: "I have taken up my pen to inform you, that last night, at about eleven o'clock, 1,000 British troops fired upon the provincials. . . . Yesterday produced a scene the most shocking New England has ever beheld. . . . The first advice we had was about 8 o'clock in the morning, when it was reported that...
Decline. In 1780 the capital of Virginia was removed from Williamsburg to Richmond. The Gazette followed the government officials. Soon it began to lose circulation and prestige; publication became intermittent and finally ceased entirely, excepting for a three weeks' resurrection by the Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, when it was sold as a souvenir...
Wallowing toward Savannah, Ga., from Germany, the steamer Coldwater met rain-squalls and a lowering sky some 400 miles off the Virginia Capes one night last week. When the man on the morning watch (4 a.m. to 8 a.m.) took his post he had a dirty murk to peer into. It was not the kind of night that makes men love the sea, but soon the lookout heard something that made him glad he was on a ship. Coming closer, droning deep amid the seethe and hiss of the waves, he heard an airplane's motor. Then...