Partners Buy Diving Belle and Refit Venture
Bradley and Captain Titcomb decide to buy the Vineyard Haven schooner Diving Belle using borrowed funds and shareholder money. They sell the Lizzie to a buyer, then complete the transfer, facing local burglar scares and a rush of town interest as they embark on partnership and vessel upgrades.
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Bradley
Titcomb
Hammond
Barney
Peles
Lizzie
Titecomb
Gus
Vineyard Haven
Vineyard Raven
Litcoln
Jie
Aj Dain
Orham
Oram
Ezra
Brasley
Thomas Doane
Thcomb
Brad
Sam
Taber
Baker Cottage
Make or break in the Diving Belle salvage bid
Bradley and Captain Titcomb pursue a risky contract to raise the stranded Freedom off Orbam shoal using 70 to 100 men, amid weather, finance, and rival bids. Captain Cook delays, but Titcomb wins cautious backing as they plan costs, wages, and logistics for a month-long operation.
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Bradley
Sle
Hardy
Caphan Titcomb
Rogers Till
Greet
Liberty
Reston
New York
Kagerlakk
Brad
Alvin Rearse
Orbain
Titcoml
Landin
Ermustee
Ordham
Cook
Boston
Leds
Urham
Captain Titcomb
Cook & Sons
Untler
Orban Shoal
Orbam
Nickerson
Pie
Liu
Fiesioon
Brakline
Titcom
Titcomb
South Boston
Fin'tly
Welmor
Provincetown
Bradleys Tirn
Ezra
Stockholders Meeting At Masonic Temple 1907
The annual meeting of the stockholders of The Masonic Temple Company will be held at the Masonic Lodge rooms in the Masonic Temple at 2 o'clock p m on Monday January 21 1907. Directors will be elected and other business acted upon as brought before the stockholders. GREP Secretary.
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Masonic Temple
Comany
Masonic Lodge
A Bargain Seekers New England Fish Market Query
A New England bride, versed in Manhattan markets, visits an Eighth Avenue fish market and quizzes the proprietor on the variety of fish. He reels off cod from the Cholera Banks, haddock from Boston, Cape Cod eel, Gloucester and Rhode Island catches, finishing with salt cod she orders for ten cents.
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New England
Manhattan
Eighth Avenue
Gloucester
Rhode Island
Nova Scotia
St. Louis
Peconic Bay
Long Island
Boston
St. John’s
Newfoundland
Block Island
Cape Cod
N. Y
Plum Pudding Defended By The Lancet
The London Lancet defends the Christmas pudding as a wholesome meal. It argues plum pudding is digestible for an average healthy person and that overeating at large meals, not pudding, causes indigestion. Eggs fats bread crumbs fruit and sugars supply protein fat carbs and minerals.
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London Lancet
Lancet
Deacon Snow Remembered In Provincetown Lively Local Portrait
Deacon Snow a beloved Provincetown figure died recently at over 80 years old. A horse jockey and owner of the town’s main livery stable, he once guided a group to Truro with fruit and a bottle of liquid refreshment. When offered a peach, he quipped his teeth were worn but his ewaller remained sharp.
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Provincetown
Mass
Truro
Octopus Chaos On French Fishing Vessel Perle
The Perle from Cancale encountered a unexpected mass of octopus while hauling a net between St. Malo and Mont St. Michel. The creatures swarmed the side of the boat, forcing the crew to cut and abandon the net to free the vessel.
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Cancale
France
St. Malo
Mont St. Michel
Grim street incident shocks town as boy cites grandpa
An unnamed stranger consoles a boy after an elderly man falls. The boy reveals the elder is his grandfather. The scene includes a reaction of disbelief and a claim that the man sat on a train car and likely caused damage. Authorities or witnesses are not identified.
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Electro Gen Co
Fremont
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Stockholders’ Meeting
Grep
Bride
Prince of Wales
Edward
Boogmia
Cressy
Black Prince
Edward Jr
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