: North Shore Breeze 
@ COS | COM ARICTS CNSR COERCED © CUD @ 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor. 
Telephones: Manchester 137, 132-3. 
Knight Building, - Manchester, Mass. 
$1,00 a year; 3 months 
Advertising eee Card on 
Subscription Rates : 
(trial) 25 cents. 
application. 
To insure publication, contributions must 
reach this office not later than Friday noon 
preceding the day of issue. 
Address all communications and make 
checks payable to NortH SHORE BREEZE, 
Manchester, Mass. 
Entered as second-class matter at the 
Manchester, Mass., Postoffice. 
VOLUME 6. May 9, 1908 NuMBER 19 
May 9—1J5 
SUN RULES CLD: 
Rises Sets | A. M. P. M. 
9 Sa. 4 29 Sy 5335 6 09 
10 Su. 4 28 6 53 6727. 6 58 
11 M. 4 27 6 54 IpP AY 7 49 
1? Aue 4 26 65) 8 10 8 33 
13 W. 4 25 6 56 8 59 9 19 
14 Th. 4 23 6 57 943 10 00 
15 Fr. 4 22 6 58 eeL0 525 10 45 
THE committee on counties reported 
adversely on the bill calling for a county 
court house at Lynn. 
Ir Solomon were alive today with his 
300 wives could he face the Merry 
Widow hat problem with calmness? 
THE sixth congressional district con- 
vention to elect two delegates and two 
alternates to the democratic national con- 
vention at Denver, Col., July 6, will be 
held at Odell hall, Salem, next “Thurs- 
day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Charles A. 
Russell, Esq., of Gloucester will probably 
be elected one of the delegates. 
Tue Beverly City Government at a 
meeting this week adopted the following 
ordinance relative to the distribution of 
handbills and circulars: ‘‘No person 
shall distribute generally in any street or 
from any building or vehicle to persons 
on the street, handbills, cards, circulars 
or papers of any kind except newspapers. 
This ordinance shall take effect | at the 
expiration of thirty days® ‘from ‘mits oe 
2»? 
age. 
INSURANGE OF ALL KINDS 
Best Companies Lowest Rates 
School and Union Streets 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Printed One Hundred Years Ago 
Weare indebted to Miss Hattie P. 
Allen of Manchester for a copy of an 
Almanac printed in 1808, entitled “An 
Astronomical Diary; or Almanack, for 
the year of christian era 1807. Being 
the third after Bissextile, or Leap Year, 
and thirty-first of the Independence of 
the United States of America. Contain- 
ing all that is usual in an Almanack, and 
a variety of other matters curious, useful 
and entertaining.’’ Nathaniel Low was 
the publisher. 
Being 101 years old this is naturally an 
interesting thing to look over. Despite 
its age, however, the book (34 pages) 
is well preserved, and though brown with 
age the type is perfectly distinct. The 
almanac feature is very much like that 
which .characterizes the Old Farmers 
almanac of today. 
In the back of the book isa list of 
¢ . 
‘" Roads and stages from Boston,’’ giv- 
ing the stages, distances, etc. We note 
no reference to Manchester, 
tells there was one stage to Gloucester, 
leaving ‘“‘ Mrs. Marean’s, Elm street, 
every day at 10 a. m.”’ 
One may feel thankful that the rates 
of postage existing at that time do not 
hold at present. The rate: ‘‘For sin- 
gle letters, composed of one piece of 
paper, any distance not exceeding 40 
miles, 8 cents; over 40. miles and not 
exceeding 90, 10 cents,’’ and so on up 
to 500 miles. The rate for over 500 
miles was 25 cents. ‘‘ Double letters, 
or those composed of two pieces of paper 
are double the above rates; and triple 
letters, triple the rates. Ship letters are 
rated at 6 cents each; and when for- 
warded by mail, with the addition of 2 
cents to the ordinary rates of postage.’’ 
‘For each newspaper, not over 100 
miles, 1 cent per sheet.’’ etc. 
‘THE preliminary meeting of the com- 
mittee having in charge the great repub- 
lican barbacue which is to be held at 
Point of Pines July 16 was held at Bos- 
ton Wednesday evening, and much en- 
thusiasm was manifested. Acting chair- 
man William O. Faxon announced that 
the republican candidates for president 
and vice president, whoever they may be, 
will be present. 
Proofs of the Ancient Origin of Baseball. 
In Genesis we hear much of the beginnings. 
Eve stole first, Adam stole second. 
Cain made a base hit. 
Abraham made a sacrifice. 
Noah put the dove out on a fly. 
The Prodigal Son made a home run. 
David struck out Goliath. 
We hear much of foul flies in Pharaoh’s time. 
We know that Rebecca was in company with a 
pitcher. 
Judas was a baseman. 
Jehu’s team is highly praised. 
We hear of the Egyptian’s short stop near the 
Red Sea. 
Ruth and Naomi did good work in the fields. 
A slave fanned Pharaoh.—E~x. 
Correspondence 
While our columns are always open for the 
discussion of any relevant subject, we do not 
necessarily indorse the opinions of con- 
tributors. 
Correspondents will please give their names 
—not necessarily for publication, but as a 
guarantee of good faith. 
Eprror Norru SHoRE BREEZE. 
Dear Sir: While it goes without 
_ saying that some people find marriage a 
oe | oe 
proposition that keeps them in hot water’ 
and it is more than certain that the man 
who has two wives find himself in a de- 
cidedly hot situation, I think that Man- 
chester is the first town that has ever 
undertaken to regulate these matters by 
placing them in the hands of the Fire 
Department. I notice in the papers of 
the last two weeks a card signed by the 
Fire Engineers calling attention § to 
Chapter 212, Section 11 of the Revised 
Laws, which provides various pains and 
penalties for Polygamy. We trust that 
no further action will be necessary to 
suppress this crime in Manchester. 
* BONFIRE.’ 
Manchester, May 7, 1908. 
Hollis Street Theatre. 
““The Lion and the Mouse,’’ the 
most notable success in comedy-drama 
that has appeared within a decade, will 
be the attraction at the Hollis Street 
Theatre beginning next Monday, May 
11th. 
When Charles Klein selected the 
money question and the oppression set 
in motion by the big financial powers of 
the day as the basis of his play he chose 
a theme that had not hitherto been pres- 
sed into service by the playwright, and 
the idea was developed along absolutely 
original lines. He not only treated this 
socioiogical problem in a forceful, intel- 
ligent and convincing manner, but he al- 
so produced a play of compelling human 
interest, brisk in action, replete in dram- 
atic incident and admirable in character 
portraiture. 
The company which Mr. Harris will 
send here is the original and is headed 
GEO. E. WILLMONTON 
Manchester Mescacheartia 
‘hg 
* * 
ae 4 
VR, 
Telephone Connection 
REAL EST ATE 
Justice of the Peace, Notary Public 
Mortgages, Loans, 
Old South Bldg., Boston 
though it 
a 
