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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Published every Saturday Afternoon. 
J. ALEX. LODGE, Editor and Proprietor. 
5 Washington Street, Beverly, Mass. 
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The BREEZE is for sale at all news stands on the 
North Shore. 
Entered as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the 
post-office at Beverly, Mass., under the Act of Congress 
of March 3, 1879. 
Telephones: Manchester 9-13, Beverly 1008-4. 
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 35. 
SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 1905. 
A Remarkable Record. 
What a splendid recommendation 
for the North Shore asa health resort 
is the necrology record of Manchester, 
published in last week’s BREEZE. “A 
most remarkable record,’ writes a 
correspondent, who lives in another 
State. 
To begin with, out of a population 
of over 2,600 the year round and 
which approaches 3,500 in the sum- 
mer season, there were only 33 deaths. 
Two-thirds of that number lived to be 
50 years old, ten over 75 years and 
one reached the 100 mark. Of the 
ten who died under 50, six were in- 
fants. So that in reality only four 
lives in the prime of life passed away. 
Anent this record a correspondent 
writes the following : 
“In reading your paper of January 
7 I was at once struck with the -re- 
markable record in the death rate of 
Manchester. It may be of interest to 
call attention to some facts from that 
record. 
“Thirty-three individuals are men- 
tioned whose combined ages total 
2,5904 years, or an average of 784. 
Twenty-two of the 33 lived to be over 
50 years of age, ten over 75, and one 
100. Only ten died under 50 years 
of age and six of these were infants. 
It seems to me a most remarkakle 
record.” 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
News when it is News. 
We have received many comple- 
mentary words the past week from our 
Manchester friends for the full and 
explicit account in our last week’s 
issue of the G.A.R. installation in 
Manchester town hall last Friday 
night, for which, of course, we feel 
very grateful. 
These words, together with the fact 
Newsdealer Floyd had sold out his 
usual supply of the BREEzE before he 
closed his store Saturday evening, 
only emphasizes the position the 
BREEZE is fast assuming in Manches- 
ter and at other parts of the shore as 
the representative North Shore paper. 
The BREEZE is printed in Beverly, 
Saturday at noon, and it is the object 
of the editor to give the readers of his 
paper the news of importance which 
happens through the week until that 
time. 
The sure and steady gain the paper 
is making is plain enough proof to us 
that we are progressing in the right 
direction. 
W hisperings. 
I noticed eight carloads of lumber 
standing ona siding at Beverly Farms 
yesterday, which led me to think for a 
minute that I was in the centre of 
some big lumbering camp. I learned 
that the lumber was designed for the 
Allen Curtis, W. D. Denegre and H. 
C. Frick estates, where there is con- 
siderable building going on. 
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They didn’t “ paint the town red,” 
but I hear that some mischievous boys 
painted a bath-house on West Beach 
yellow a few days ago. And the joke 
is on the good-natured Al. Potter, one 
of Connolly Bros. foremen. Al. is a 
friend of everybody at the Farms. 
The first of the week, I hear, Mr. 
Connolly sent him to work at the 
beach, painting a bath-house with red 
paint and yellow trimmings. He had 
almost completed his work, and while 
up town some boys found the can of 
yellow paint and proceeded to use it 
up with fancy scrolls on the four sides 
of the house. I hear my friend Potter 
had to plane off the yellow paint be- 
fore the ‘“‘boss’’ found out about the 
trick, but he knows it, nevertheless. 
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I would not lead my readers to 
think I am “knocking”’ when I insert 
the following squib, which I copy from 
an exchange: ae 
A Washington county, Me., editor 
writes: ‘One of our newly-married 
=a 
young ladies kneads bread with her 
gloves on. The editor of this paper 
needs bread with his shoes on; he 
needs it with his pants on, and unless 
the delinquent readers of this old rag 
of freedom pay up soon we will need 
bread without a darn thing on.” 
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA. 
Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. White- 
house have decided to close their Cove 
house about January 24, and will sail 
for England about the fifth of Feb- 
ruary. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse 
have been much in evidence on the 
Shore the past few months, since 
their return from abroad the early 
part of September. 
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and 
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth, came 
down to Manchester recently and 
made their presence evident to the 
Cove children in a very pleasant man- 
ner, distributing among them some 
handsome boxes of candy. 
Reginald Boardman was one of the 
Boston ushers at the fashionable 
Moale-Hillen wedding. in Baltimore, 
last Saturday. 
Miss Margaret Winthrop was down 
from Boston last Sunday, riding as 
far as Beverly by train, and walking 
down the shore to her home in West 
Manchester, returning by the after- 
noon train. Her sister, Miss Clara 
Winthrop, sailed last Saturday for the 
Mediterranean, where she will spend 
the balance of the winter in travel. 
She sailed on the Deutschland from 
New York for Naples. 
Miss Naneen Mitchell, who has re- 
cently gone over to Washington from 
her Manchester summer home, is hav- 
ing a happy time in the great city, 
where she will easily rank among the 
more prominent debutantes. Mr. 
Frank Mitchell is giving a series of 
dances for Miss Mitchell and Mrs. 
Arthur Brice is introducing her to 
her friends. 
The William B. Walkers have 
closed their West Manchester house 
for a month or two. Mr. and Mrs. 
Walker had planned to go abroad but 
they have changed their plans and 
will spend most of the winter in Cali- 
fornia and the South. 
Among the Boston men who are 
interested in the company recently 
formed for ‘“‘ harnessing the sun,” and 
which is making solar motors for that 
purpose, is James Means, the State 
street capitalist, who is spending the 
winter at his Smith’s Point estate. 
Mrs. William LeBrun, who occu- 
pied the Apple lane cottage last 
season, was in town Monday. a 
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