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Show CRADLE GOLD CANNOT DUY MlneWoman Possesses One Sir William Wil-liam Phlps Was Rocked In, Boston. Mrs, S. P. E. Hawthorno of Woolwich, Me., has In hor possession n relic which gold cannot buy, nnd which Is considered one ot tho most valuablo of tho many pieces of antlquo Cradle Over 200 Years Old. furnlturo to bo found In tho old town. It Is n homely, little, old-fnshlouod cradle, mado of pine boards. This cradle has been In the family for over 200 years, nnd nccordlng to tho tradition which has beon handed down from generation to generation It Is the one In which William Phlps, later Sir William Phlps, was rocked when nn Infant. Mrs. Hawthorne's ancestors wore among tho first settlers In Woolwich, and lived In the same locality whero Pblps was born. They went there from York In a schooner which they had built themselves, and brought up ! largo famlllos of children, |