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Advocate Archives
Travel back in time through the newspaper archives. This week takes you to 1916, 1941 and 1977.
April 20, 1916
Truro Village News
Miss Flora Peters, New York, is the guest of her father.
Mr. and Mrs. Obadiah Rich, San Francisco, and Mrs. Dorcas Gorham, Wellfleet, recently visited their brother M.A. Rich of this village.
Miss Emma Thompson, Andover, has opened her summer cottage at Whitmanville.
During the gale of last week, the metal garage at the Highland House was again blown flat. The storm of last Dec. 26th first caused the damage and carpenters had only partly restored it when it met with the second trouble.
The cold weather has not brought many mayflowers but the usual crowd visited this place on the 19th from Provincetown.
The fishing weirs have been much delayed by the non-arrival of ropes and poles. These were started in good season but owing to freight embargoes and the congestion on local lines it has taken many weeks for goods that ordinarily come through in a few days.
The Ladies’ Aid Society held a knotting bee at their rooms Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Frank Rose is ill at a hospital in Jamestown, R.I.
April 24, 1941
Al Pierce Better After Train Crash
Al Pierce, well-known and popular driver for the Acme Laundry Company, badly hurt when his truck crashed into a freight train on the North Eastham crossing last Thursday night, is greatly improved and his injuries are not as serious as at first believed.
At first it was feared that broken glass might have seriously injured an eye and that Al might have suffered internal injuries, but it was found that he escaped both.
Cleveland Woodward of Truro was the first person on the scene about 8:30 and his attention was attracted by a fire along the side of the road. He stopped and seeing that a truck was on fire started to determine whether the driver might have been pinned inside. It was then that he stumbled on Pierce’s body which had been thrown clear by the impact.
The engineer of the freight train, Francis T. Nye of Hyannis, told State Police he had no knowledge of the collision until informed of it by police when the train reached Yarmouth.
An examination disclosed that the truck crashed into a metal gondola loaded with sand.
April 21, 1977
‘Tis the season for apartment picking
Year-round Provincetown residents who don’t own homes learn to pack fast, travel light, and migrate with the seasons.
Except for the lucky or wily who have managed to find year-round apartments, the coming of summer means apartment-hunting for the propertyless.
Those who own property spend the first warm weeks sprucing up the paint and planting the gardens that will lure high-paying summer tenants to their rooms, apartments and cottages.
The winter dwellers who have occupied many of those units know that as of May or June they will have to make way for the people who can afford to pay summer prices.
Those summer people are the ones that make income property pay. Often summer rentals are the only way a family can afford to maintain its own property. Almost every house in Provincetown has at least one room to rent for the summer. Usually they rent for prices that vacationers can afford and residents cannot even consider.
But Provincetown’s year-round tenants learn to weather the extremes of the seasons. Those that manage through a winter here also develop a talent for hunting down affordable shelter for the summer. Many people move from season to season for years until they finally land upon the rare year-round lease.
One long-time town resident said, “I’m like George Washington. I’ve slept here, I’ve slept there. I’ve lived everywhere in this town.”
Provincetown’s summer rental market can shock the uninitiated. Hazel Warner, an associate with Pat Shultz’s real estate agency, said, “There just isn’t an easy way to find a summer place.”
This summer, Ms. Warner said the good buys went even earlier than usual.
Even now, as spring is just beginning, she said few inexpensive rentals are left. The winter apartment that might have rented for $150 a month will cost about $1,500 for the summer.
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Apr 19th, 2007