NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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ANTIQUE FURNITURE 
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WE HAVE AT PRESENT A FINE LINE OF 
DESKS 
HIGHBOYS 
TABLES 
OLD MIRRORS 
SIDEBOARDS 
CHINA, ETC. 
We cordially invite you to look at our 
stock whether you purchase or not 
Our store in MANCHESTER is in CENTRAL SQUARE, two doors from the hotel. 
A. Ge. LUNT.... 2@ 
214 Cabot Street, Beverly 
Old Planters Hold 
Annual Field Meeting, 
The Old Planters’ Society, an or- 
ganization whose membership is con- 
fined to descendants of men who came 
to New England before 1630, held 
their annual field meeting on Thurs- 
day, at the Balch homestead in Bev- 
erly, corner of Cabot and Balch streets. 
This house was built by John Balch in 
1638, and is in a good state of preser- 
vation. It is believed to be the oldest 
house in New England. It has always 
been owned and occupied by descend- 
ants of the family. The only repre- 
sentative of the family from Man- 
chester in attendance at the reunion 
was Mr. Joseph A. Torrey, who is 
descended from John Balch and also 
from Capt.Thos. Gardner, the first gov- 
ernor of the Cape Anne colony, which 
came in 1623 and removed to Salem 
in 1626, two years before Endicott 
and four years before Winthrop. The 
Cape Anne colony at Gloucester was 
the earliest settlement in Massachu- 
setts bay. 
Among these colonists were the 
Allens and the Leaches, who settled 
in that part of Salem now called Man- 
chester. 
The Breeze, one year, one dollar 
THE IDEAL COMPANY 
If the Savings Banks should, without changing any of their methods, so arrange 
their affairs that they could carry on a Life Insurance Business and insure the lives 
of their depositors, you would have in actual existence and in operation, what is con- 
sidered the nearest to perfection in the Life Insurance Business. In a word, the Life 
Insurance Company that comes nearest to the Savings Bank as regulated by the Laws 
of Massachusetts in its methods of investment and its general conduct of financial 
affairs, would prove to be the best Life Insurance Company, and the safest as well as 
the most satisfactory to all concerned. 
We want to call your attention to the NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO. 
OF BOSTON, MASS., because we believe that this Company approaches as near as any 
company can to this ideal of a Life Insurance Company. The premiums paid to this old 
New England Mutual by its present Policy Holders as well as the many that will in 
the years to come, ought to be, and are considered by this company in the same light 
as the money paid into a savings bank by its depositors. We don’t ask our Policy 
Holders to deposit quite as much with us for their Insurance as most of the other 
companies do, and yet we guarantee to everyone just as much protection as any 
company can give, the Best Policy Contract issued by any Company—the Simplest, 
Most Brief and to the Point of them all—as Liberal Dividends as any Company pays, 
and in fact a Satisfactory Business Deal all the way through. 
If you are thinking of Insurance or if there is any information that you desire, 
don’t fail to call and see us at your first opportunity, or communicate with us by letter. 
(Ask for booklet, ‘‘ The How and the Why.’’) 
JOHN H. HINKLEY, WEST D. ELDREDGE, 
North Shore Representative, Gen. Agt. for Eastern Mass., 
181 Hale Street, Beverly, Mass. Cor. Hanover and Washington Sts., 
Boston, Mass. 
