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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Selectmen Appointments. 
At a meeting of the Manchester 
board of selectmen last Saturday 
afternoon the following appoint- 
ments were made: 
James H. Rivers, 
voters, three years. 
A. B. Dunn, charge of the town 
clock, vice Benjamin F. Merrill, re- 
signed. 
Alhanan Babcock, undertaker. 
L. O. Lations, harbor master. 
registrar of 
Three junk licenses were also 
granted as follows: Joseph L. 
Simons, Garrett Fitzgerald and 
Michael Finberg. 
Albert C. Douglas. 
Word has been received of the 
death of Albert C. Douglas, a for- 
mer Manchester boy, upon _ his 
ranch at Penoyer, Placer County, 
Cal., on April 24. 
Mr. Douglas will be remembered 
by many of the older residents of 
Manchester. His father was. the 
late Capt. John Douglas of Brooks- 
ville, Me., who settled in Manches- 
ter after following the sea for many 
years. He carried on a_ grocery 
store in town and lived in the Lord 
house, corner of Desmond avenue 
and School street. 
The deceased was a member of 
the Salem Zouaves, under Captain 
A. F. Devereux, and enlisted as 
sergeant in Co. H, 19th Mass. Regi- 
ment, became sergeant major, re- 
enlisted and was mustered out in 
1865. He went to California very 
soon after the war and became a 
successful ranchman. He married 
Miss Nellie Larrabee of Salem, who 
survives him with one or two chil- 
dren. Mr. Douglas was 64 years of 
age. Bick 
H. Shephard Johnson. 
H. Shephard Johnson, one of Na- 
hant’s best known citizens, died a 
week ago today of heart trouble. 
He was well-known in Manchester, 
having married Miss Harriett E. 
Allen of this town, who, with five 
children, survive him. 
He was born in Copenhagen, 
N. Y., in 1843. In early life he came 
to Nahant. In 1861 he was among 
the first of the Nahant volunteers to 
enlist. When a young man he en- 
gaged in the hay and grain business 
in Nahant, and later in the manu- 
facture of duck and leather coats 
at Lynn, he being the first to place 
these coats upon the market, and 
continuing in this work up to the 
time of his death. 
Those Creamy Egg Phosphates on 
hot days are delicious. ‘At Chee- 
ver’s.”’ o" 
‘The Home Beautifier. 
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It is the Finest Finish Made for Interior Woodwork, Weatherbeaten Front 
Doors, Iron Fences, Wicker Furniture, Porch Furniture, Refrigerators, Chandeliers, Fire- 
place Fixtures, and ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE. 
IT STAINS AND VARNISHES IN ONE OPERATION. 
EASILY APPLIED, QUICKLY DRIED. 
D. T. BEATON, Agent, 
MADE IN TWELVE COLORS, 
Manchester-by-the-Sea, 
Mass. 
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SALE 3 
4000 YARDS OF STRAW MATTING, 
Stock of one of the best and largest Bos- 
ton importing houses. 
We bought the lot for one-third less than 
their COST price. 
Not their selling price, but their actual 
COST price. 
Their selling price would have been 50c 
yard. Our price will be 
25e yard. 
That’s just half the regular price. 
Get some of that Table Oil Cloth before 
it’s all gone. It’s only 
15e yard. 
Why pay 25 cents elsewhere? 
Have you seen the Handsome Curtain 
Muslin we are selling at 
10¢c yard. 
Don’t think it’s no good because we are 
selling itso cheap. We are selling them too 
cheap. The price should be 25c instead 
of 10c. 
We will also have on NEXT WEEK a Great Sale of 
50,000 Pieces of Crockery and China 
The entire stock of the New England Decorating Co., jobbers of 
Crockery, Yellow Ware and Teapots. 
We bought the entire 
stock and are selling for less than the jobbers’ price. 
DANE SMITH CO. Inc. 
277-281 Essex St., Salem. 
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