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Smedley Darlington Butler Jr., son of the famed, gimlet-eyed Brig.-Gen- eral of Marines, was arrested for motoring 65 m. p. h. through Salem, N. J., fined $10 by Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Smith...
...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...
...Salem, Mass., Kenneth Moffett, church organist, stepped among fallen trolley wires which burned off all his clothes without hurting...
...coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east as Japan, as far south...
...names of the men who received degrees with distinction follow: Robert Gorham Davis of Cambridge, and Hyman Alpers of Salem, A.B. cum laude; Warren Wilcox Anthony of Portsmouth, R. I., and Shephard Sterling Senter of Windham, N. H., S.B. cum laude. Five more A.B. degrees were given this year than last, but 14 less than...