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Leaving on their annual southern trip from Boston on April 6, the University trackmen will practice twice daily at Williamsburg, Virginia, before engaging in a triangular meet there with William and Mary and Maryland on April...
...snug pens throughout the eastern U. S. when, last week, one Alfred Findlay and one John Merritt were caught by police, who believe them the most enterprising and systematic silver fox thieves in the land. They will be charged with raiding the Hampshire silver black fox farm in Williamsburg, Mass. From other farms in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine they are believed to have stolen not less than $100,000 worth of pelts-slipping into the pens by night with flashlights, clubbing the wide-eyed little animals where they crouched against the side wire, lugging the limp carcasses...
...pain TIME'S report may have caused Miss Jones, TIME is genuinely sorry. But from her letter it is quite apparent that she is not the Williamsburg householder of whom TIME was informed, of whom it told. Nor did TIME mention Miss Jones's name. Confusion still seems to exist over what oldtime Williamsburg houses were used as the town clerk's office, but an official recheck confirms TIME'S report that a $45,000 offer from John D. Rockefeller Jr., who is restoring Williamsburg to its colonial aspect, was refused by the aged female owner...
...meet; February 8, Milrose A. A. at New York; February 15, B. A. A.; February 18, New York A. C. at New York; February 24, Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell; March 1. I. C. A. A. A. A. in New York. Spring--April 5 to 12, spring trip to Williamsburg; April 12, William and Mary and Maryland; April 25, 26, Penn Relays at Philadelphia; May 2, 3, Greater Boston Intercollegiate; May 9, University Handicap; May 17, Dartmouth at Hanover; May 24, Yale...
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...