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...mile limit and distribute it in the U. S.) Rum ships, he added, never clear for the U. S. from Halifax itself. To spare the feelings of Canadian big-port authorities members of the I. R. R. & B. use the smaller Canadian ports of Liverpool, Shelburne, Meteghan, Yarmouth (all in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia...
...Herrings alive! Herrings alive! Fine Yarmouth bloaters!" cried lusty Yarmouth fisherfolk one morning last week as usual, then changed their tune to "Hurrah for th' Prince o' Wales...
...fishmonger's band blared "God Bless The Prince of Wales." Out of twinkling limousines stepped the Heir of Britain and his top-hatted retinue. Fastidiously they inspected the oozy, odorous docks, mounted a pot-bellied Yarmouth drifter, stood for a moment on the brink of a hold in which squirmed some 50,000 herrings alive...
Special trains ran from Boston. An excursion steamer went out from Yarmouth. The automobiles of country people moved in slow procession along Hesperus Avenue* and Bass Rocks Road. Canadians were betting even money on Bluenose although it looked as though Captain Pine had the best crew. Aboard the Thebaud were Captains Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur...
Died. William Sloane Kennedy, 78, of West Yarmouth, Mass., author (The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Italy in Chains), in West Yarmouth; by drowning while swimming...