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Show PLYMOUTH IS STILL MUCH IN LIMELIGHT Latest Bid for Feme Is That It Is Home of England's First -Woman M. P. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 14. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Plymouth, whence comes England's first woman M. P., today is not the little seaport town which the Mayflower left. It is still a seaport, ship-I ship-I ping and fishing being the principal j sources of revenue, but it is also one of i England's most flourishing seaports, boasting of a population of about 200,000. Despite the city's prosperity and maritime mari-time importance, there are many of its customs which have remained unchanged i through the three centuries since the ' Pilgrims waved their farewells. ! American bluejackets have dubbed the town as "a 9 o'clock town," for at that i hour each evening the streets are prac-j prac-j ticaily deserted. Blinds are drawn, taxl-j taxl-j cabs are unavailable and night clerks in I the hotels have settled themselves com-I com-I fortably for the night's slumber behind J their desks. But if it is a 9 o'clock town in the evenings, eve-nings, it is certainly "a 6 o'clock town" in t lie mornings, for that time sees the majority of the people setting about their day's tasks, the fish market and dockyards dock-yards are in full operation, the shopping I districts beginning to open and the streets are lively. ; "Famous as a departing point for the Pilgrims, and more recently by the arrival , there of the NC-4 after her flight across : the Atlantic, it is appropriate that Plymouth Plym-outh should again get her name into history through sponsoring the feminine invasion of the commons." commented one . of Lady Astor's. Unionist supporters. |