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Sirs: ... I was on board the Prince Henry of the Canada Steamship Lines returning from Bermuda to Boston on Friday night and was able to get the radio operator to tune in on "The March of Time." About half of the passengers listened in and it was thoroughly enjoyed by all-especially since we had been riding a hurricane for nearly two days. I am sorry I cannot furnish you with a picture of about 50 or 60 passengers huddled around the great mass of furniture and rugs that were upset as a result of the gale we had been...
Hard hit also are steamship lines, to which the transport of students in these times is a comparatively big business...
...Boston & Maine Railroad will provide excursions from Boston to North Conway and Fryeburg. The New York, New Haven & Hartford has scheduled excursions from New York and way stations to Fabyan, N. H., and from Boston to Provincetown. The New England Steamship Co. advertised a personally escorted total eclipse Cape Cod tour from Manhattan for $25. Hotels outside the 100-mi, belt of totality organized motorbus services to take guests into the zone...
Shortly after he lost his fortune in the Black Friday panic brought on by Jay Gould's gold corner in 1869, the late Berlin-born Albert Frank, then a banker, happened to suggest to a steamship line that it advertise its transatlantic service. Because the advertising drew passengers, he suggested to his banker friends that they advertise their services, helped them write their copy. Because the copy brought customers, Albert Frank founded in 1872, one of the first financial advertising agencies in Wall Street. Successfully fighting the prejudice of the times against advertising by bankers & brokers (it was thought...
Polite but firm were Presidents Harry Arnold and Henry M. Clarke of the New-York and New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Associations as they proceeded, one day last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said...