Word: storming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Calm rising thro' change and thro' storm...
...Arthur K. Peck delivered a lecture last night in the Union on "The Storm Heroes of Our Coast." The lecture was illustrated by excellent colored slides, which rendered the realistic descriptions still more interesting to the large audience...
...Peck spoke first of numerous disasters along the coast, describing vividly the storm of November, 1898, in which the life-saving crews had not only to perform their usual duty of saving shipwrecked crews, but also to rescue cottagers, whose homes were demolished. In that storm the entire crew of the pilot-boat "Columbia" was lost, and the wreck is now on exhibition at Scituate. Mr. Peck showed numerous pictures of surf to demonstrate the dangers undergone in launching life-boats. One of the slides was a fac-simile of a letter written by the keeper of Minot's Ledge...
...Arthur K. Pock will deliver a lecture in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Storm Heroes of Our Coast." The lecture, open to members of the Union only, will be illustrated by stereopticon pictures...
Tomorrow night Honorable Arthur K. Peck will speak at 8 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union on "The Storm Heroes of Our Coast." The lecture, which will be open to members of the Union only, will be illustrated by numerous stereopticon pictures...