Tuesday Chronicle: Summer Flowers
Ordinarily at this phase of an Island summer the hedgerows would be dusty, and dust would be coating the dry, hot sweet fern beside our sandy roads. The scent of huckleberry and bayberry thickets would seem to be part of the heat, part of the sunny day and the elixir of sunlight itself. Older inhabitants remember how the iron rims of carriage wheels used to sink into the sand, and how the heat and the dust mingled and then fell apart.
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Gazette Chronicle: Captain’s Logs
Ever hear of the Demarcation Point.
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Gazette Chronicle: Summer People
Certainly worth a first page position is the fact that James Thurber, the American humorist, whom the Vineyard proudly stakes a proprietary claim to because of his visits here, lunched in London with the editors of Punch.
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Gazette Chronicle: It’s the Berries
Most visitors to the Island are under the impression that our land is not much good for agriculture. There are too many rocks. In some places there is too much sand, and in other places too much clay. The soil is acid and needs cargos of lime. Yet Island farms have been amazingly productive. Island milk is rich and creamy, and the Islander with farming talent and skill has never yielded to discouragement. Moreover, the Island soil produces many things we regard highly which mellower ground on the mainland will not grow.
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Gazette Chronicle: Ringing in the Fourth
Church bells rang at midnight on the Fourth of July when Gratia Harrington was a little girl.
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Gazette Chronicle : Taking the A Train
Continued train service between Boston and Woods Hole until June 23 became assured last weekend when Judge Robert P. Anderson, in federal court at New Haven, ordered the present scale of operation continued until a further hearing which he set for that date.
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Tuesday Chronicle
For many Island visitors. the greatest charm lies in the search for Indian relics and prospecting about the tribal places in search of traces of habitations, graves and other signs of ancient Indian life. Christiantown and Indian Hill offer much of this variety of interest, as the last Indian holding in the down-Island section of the Vineyard.
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Gazette Chronicle: All the Social News
Those from Edgartown, in all numbering twenty-three, who attended the Neighborhood Convention at Gay Head on Tuesday, report a most delightful day. The start was made, five teams in all, at the early hour of six in the morning, and the arrival home was about eight in the evening, four hours on the road each way.
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Gazette Chronicle: Noisy Glide
Neighbors of the Trade Wind Airport told Oak Bluffs selectman Anthony Rebello they’d like to spend this summer without the roar of a glider towplane overhead. Telling Mr. Rebello that people come to the Vineyard to get away from noise, the residents objected to allowing Robert Wilkinson of Wilton, Conn., to sell glider rides at the airport. After receiving numerous complaints last summer about noise from the plane that tows the glider, the selectmen agreed to hold a hearing before deciding on the permit application this year.
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Gazette Chronicle: Fire!
An Oak Bluffs landmark for generations, Darling’s candy store was virtually gutted at about noon on Wednesday and quite probably damaged beyond repair, although there was a rumor current the next day it was to be rebuilt.
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Tuesday Chronicle
The three Steamship Authority governors, facing a battle with Vineyard commuters that may cost the boat line $25,000 in legal fees, are digging in for the fight.
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Gazette Chronicle: Visitors Return
The lovely weather of the past week has been improved by housekeepers in having carpets beaten and a general war on dirt. Everyone is hustling to get their house in trim for the summer season.
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Gazette Chronicle: Just a Thought . . .
Every town has one. Some have two, three or more. They are our most ignored public spaces. Except during a few days in May. They are our cemeteries. Quiet and restful, even in frenetic mid-summer they are sanctuaries. Not for birds, not for wildlife, but for humans, living and dead. Yet, except on Memorial Day, they are ignored.
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Gazette Chronicle: Planting Trees
A conservation army, numbering 219 men, will arrive on the Island today to take up the work of reforestation in the state reservation under the federal plan for relieving unemployment. This army is one that has been through the preliminary course of training at Camp Devens and will be in the charge of a captain and two lieutenants of the regular Army, besides a detail of military police.
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Gazette Chronicle: Ghosts in the Woods
Now in the woods of the Vineyard and along the old time roadsides the spirit of spring appears, which means that the wild pear is blooming. It’s like seeing ghosts in the daytime to glance through the still-bare oak woodland at those pale apparitions of the new season in vestments of white bloom. All at once they emerge, and it is hard to realize that the wild pear trees, or shrubs, have been there all the time, so many of them, waiting for the tryst, the one perfect moment.
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Gazette Chronicle
There is no true analogy between the migration of birds and the comings and goings of seasonal vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard, the regular ones, the ones who have been coming for years and years, yet in both cases there is a design, and maybe an appropriate relevance of the stars in the heavens. An unforgotten grandmother who owned a cottage on the Camp Ground in Oak Bluffs always planned her arrival to take place just after “the cold May storm.”
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The Gazette Chronicle
The Adams sisters, Miss Lucy, height 49 inches, and Miss Sarah, 46 inches, of Chilmark and Oak Bluffs, received a call this month to come to Chicago for a twenty-three weeks engagement at the World’s Fair, in the midget village of the great Centenary of Progress exposition. Although they would be very glad to accept, they have conscientious scruples about taking any position which would necessitate Sunday performances, and have so written the agency. The sisters have travelled extensively, associated with other tiny people. Miss Lucy was bridesmaid at the wedding of the widow of the famous Tom Thumb when she became the bride of Count Magri, the Italian midget.
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Gazette Chronicle: Joe the Clam Eater
Not conquering perhaps, but a hero just the same, Joseph H. Silva returned this week to his home in Edgartown. He went west as the Vineyard’s champion clam-eater, seeking a prize as the nation’s capacity consumer. Mr. Silva has won local fame for his capacity for steamed clams, boiled clams, fried clams and just clams.
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Gazette Chronicle: Who Was Charlotte?
Happy days have dawned again for the Charlotte Inn in Edgartown, which, when it opened in 1935, was the Island’s newest inn, and has actually so remained.
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Gazette Chronicle: Pig on the Loose
A call from the Communications Center about a pig chasing cars on the Vineyard Haven Road sent John Rogers on a daring mission Saturday.
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Gazette Chronicle: Fearless Whaler
The bark Wanderer is being fitted for a whaling voyage and will be commanded by Captain George Fred Tilton, the hero of the long walk from the Arctic, bringing the news of the disaster of the whaling fleet, the winner of horse races, and the successful whaling captain.
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Gazette Chronicle: Lobsters and Ewes
Gasoline prices fell as low as 99 cents a gallon at Cape service stations in the past week, and Vineyard travelers who noticed them came back with questions for Island dealers whose gasoline still sells for more than $1.30 a gallon.
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Gazette Chronicle: The Last Heath Hen
Although not officially confirmed, it is known that the Vineyard Grove Company seeks to sell its main bathing beach and plant at Oak Bluffs and has offered the beach to the town. The proposal is said to have been made this week by the president of the company, who visited the Island with the manager of the Island plant. According to current report, the company’s offer to sell was to sell outright the entire building on the Oak Bluffs waterfront, including buildings and bathhouses, for $82,500, from which allowances for needed repairs were to be deducted, making the actual selling price $75,000. Damages to the plant by winter gales influenced the Vineyard Grove Company to advance this proposition. Many of the older bath houses were wrecked, and have been removed, and there has been further damage by undermining, erosion of the bank between the buildings and the street, and by the washing away of the beach, which has been lowered perceptibly.
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Gazette Chronicle: Heavenly Phenomena
Pfc. Peter M. Williamson, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Williamson of Oak Bluffs, has become one of the nation’s first soldiers to take part in field exercises testing the Army’s new “pentomic” battle concept. The pentomic battle plan features streamlined units with great mobility and firepower, able to meet the needs of atomic and missile age warfare. The soldier is serving as a machine gunner in C Company of the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Battle group. The 4th Division, famed for its fighting record in World Wars I and II, was reorganized as a pentomic outfit early last year.
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Gazette Chronicle: 50 Years Ago
In a most orderly and well conducted town meeting on Tuesday night, Tisbury voters disposed of an annual warrant containing thirty-nine articles, appropriating a budget of $450,544.08, and completing the whole annual business in three hours.i
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