100 Decades Ago
March 5, 1921
Mr. Nichols, of Eastondale and authentic estate owner at Silver Beach, is obtaining his summer months cottage wired for electric powered lights. His son arrived the initial of the week to do the function.
The Acushnet was known as out Thursday evening to go to the support of the U. S. submarine O—8, bound from Boston to New London by way of the Cape Cod canal. The submarine went aground off the japanese finish of Penikese island, in Buzzards bay, during the fog Thursday afternoon.
The initial herring of the season ended up caught this 7 days. The ice is basically gone from all the ponds, and a number of robins have put in an visual appeal, all of which indicates an early Spring.
Inner income agents are seeking to trace the ownership of a zinc container found at the Cape Cod canal entrance, that contains 65 deals of “dope” valued at $3000. The container, a few ft extended and 18 inches across on the ends, was found out by Capt. Aaron Barnes of the Atlantic Coastwise Transportation.
The box of “medicine” was “in fact a container of 65 total bottles of sulphate of morphine, just about every a person that contains four ounces 15 bottles of cocaine and a substantial quantity of acetate of morphine.
75 Many years Ago
March 8, 1946
It looked this week as if shoppers experienced deserted Principal road. Police Chief Baker manufactured the observation as he surveyed the plenitude of parking: areas on both equally curbs, up and down the road. But small business in the retailers was fantastic as usual—which is quite good certainly. Chief Baker produced the empty areas by making a law enforcement connect with at each and every company institution and asking homeowners and employees not to park their cars all working day along the road.
A new waterfront restaurant is to open up at Woods Gap on or about June 15, if the owner’s options experienced. He hopes to be serving leading grade steaks and super lobsters to Cape Codders and early summertime arrivals prior to the season receives in complete swing on July 4.
The new restaurateur arrives to Woods Hole with a history of education at Cornell University’s lodge school, expertise in kitchens of Falmouth summer time lodges, and Army teaching that experienced him preparing each day foods for 1500 officers and Army dignitaries in occupied Germany.
He is David Estes, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Estes of Davisville and Media, Pa. The new having location is to be named The Landfall.
Explosions which have been shaking the home windows of Falmouth homes for the earlier 7 days are the end result of program experiments getting executed offshore by the Oceanographic Establishment, Norman T. Allen Jr. explained this 7 days. They are a continuation of get the job done on underwater explosives which the Institution has been performing in the course of the war.
50 Yrs In the past
March 5, 1971
At a news meeting in Woods Gap yesterday morning, Director Paul M. Fye of the Woods Gap Oceanographic Establishment outlined options for improvement of a $12 million “campus” on the former Fenno estate in Quissett.
The Lawrence Higher college hockey staff that faces off from Medford Large in the Boston Arena at 3 o’clock this afternoon will have numerous hundred loyal lovers rooting for them in the stands when the motion starts.
Premier appropriation from tax levy of the city assembly entire warrant, other than for the finances, was handed by 10 to one margin on a counted vote, with the objective barely referred to.
Library trustees were being well prepared to remedy concerns about their program for building a branch library for the east end of city in what is now the Vidal house earlier mentioned Mill pond in East Falmouth. No questions arrived.
Barometers plummeted Thursday morning and the wind rose as rapidly. Wind gauge at Harbor Watch Fish marketplace, which had been exhibiting about 20 miles an hour, quickly shot up to 60, with gusts at 75 and 80, the wind straight from the south.
The roaring hum of wind aloft sounded a little something like a hurricane.