Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weather this weekend is somewhat encouraging as indicated by information from Old Man Winter of the Boston Transcript...
...Secretary Malcolm MacDonald busy making New Year's midnight calls on Lossiemouth neighbors, while his father, snowy-haired Lord President of the Council James Ramsay MacDonald, diplomatically stayed at home visiting with Daughter Sheila. Not present was Daughter Ishbel who did such a rushing business during the weekend at her 300-year-old Plow Inn in High Wycombe (TIME. Dec. 2) that she was obliged to don an apron, help wait on such distinguished guests as the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Bingham...
...Europe, have suddenly become popular in the U. S. Started in Boston six years ago, they were tried in New York last year. This year, the New York, New Haven & Hartford and New York Central are running snow trains, expect to take 2,000 skiers to snow every weekend. Skiing started in prehistoric Scandinavia. Long practiced for utility, it became a sport in 1879, when the King of Norway promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked...
...This weekend, with 10 inches of snow on the summit of Mt. Washington and 141/2 at Piukham Notch, the skiing should be greatly improved. Latest reports from Hanover say that there are 16 inches of snow around the summit of Mt. Moosliauke, while at Hanover skiing conditions are fair with three inches of snow and a hard crust...
With over 50 skiers reported on the carriage road at Mt. Washington last weekend, the winter sports season has begun in earnest, according to Old Man Winter, winter sports experts of the Boston Transcript...