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Advocate Archives
Wind Storm, Charm Shop, Hollering Fishermen
Advocate Archives
March 12, 1931
Results of Saturday’s Wind Storm
A terrific southeast gale battered the town for about six hours Saturday night and raised more havoc here than the snow storm of last Wednesday. Wires to the main electric light line were blown down in several places and at 7:30 p.m. lights went out in the center and west end of the town for the night. In the east end, electric light was available as the homes there receive current from a Truro line which remained unmolested by the storm.
Two plate glass windows in the front of the Blue Moon Café were shattered by blasts of wind and sand and a side window cracked. James Perry, local contractor, was called and boarded up the windows in the midst of the storm to prevent further damage to the interior of the restaurant.
A large willow tree on the Cox summer estate in the rear of the First National Bank building was blown down and fell on the house occupied by Mr. Joseph Steele and family, knocking the chimney down and buckling the roof in several places.
The porch at the home of Jackson R. Williams, West Vine Street, was blown away and blinds were torn from houses in both ends of town.
In the harbor many of the smaller crafts were severely battered by high breakers and the power dories Plymouth Rock, owned by John Paul, and the Gerald C., belonging to John Costa, lost their moorings and grounded. The Atlantic also lost her mooring and drifted about the bay for hours. The Serafina, a sixty-four foot flounder dragger, washed ashore, high and dry, in the west end of the town.
A cement wall which serves as a bulkhead for the E.A. Grozier property in the west end was washed out and the damage estimated at about $2,000.
March 9, 1944
Charm Shop Has Charming Setting
One of the most charming shops on the Cape to which charming women come so that they may be more charming, is that of the Harbor Vanity Shoppe, now operating in the completely remodeled quarters on the second floor of the Seamen’s Savings Bank Building.
Contractor Jimmy Perry of James J. Perry & Son was so proud of the job done in completely renovating the entire topside of the building, with the shop in front, apartments in the rear and third floor, that he took last week off to celebrate in New York, and well he might, after a battle for materials in war time.
Two of the three large rooms on the second floor which will be used by Edythe Marshall Cushing for her work have been completed. The large front room overlooking the harbor will be used as a drying room and for manicuring and the room adjoining for shampoos and permanents. A third room, when completed, will be used for special treatments.
March 8, 1956
Fishermen Have Hollered Too Much At Each Other To Ever Holler Together
Fishermen have spent far too much time hollering at each other to have any time to holler together, Francis Sargent, director of the Division of Marine Fisheries, State Dept. of Natural Resources, told a small audience at the final public meeting of the adult education committee of the Provincetown PTA at the Veterans Memorial School Friday night.
To the failure of fishermen to cooperate, to stand firmly together on issues which vitally concern their industry, the young, dynamic head of Massachusetts’ once tremendous seafood trade, placed the major blame for most of the many ills which now beset it. Not only does the Commonwealth lag behind, in some cases, far behind other states, but the country as a whole has failed to keep step with the progress of other nations, notably Norway, the other Scandinavian countries, Japan and even Canada.
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Mar 9th, 2006