Back Wages to Be Paid to Eastern Mass Street Railway Workers
Nearly $500000 in back pay will be issued to employees of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company on January 7. The payment restores a 20 percent wage increase granted from May to September and accompanies an extension of interest on series A and B refunding mortgage bonds dated January 1, 1919.
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Bay State
Kane
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
Moxie Company
U. S. Crafts Lead World in Shipping
Secretary Alexander releases annual report showing nearly half of the nation's overseas commerce in the past fiscal year was carried by American ships. Overseas trade totaled 11.875 billion dollars with 5.0719 billion carried on American-owned vessels, up from 368.359 million on American bottoms the prior year.
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Washington
Alexander
Merchants Discuss War Cost and Ship Losses Affected Trade
The article notes total imports and exports by land and sea reached 13.34966 billion dollars, with imports at 5.23866 billion and exports at 7.95043 billion for the last fiscal year. It also details a 670 vessel, 3.416 million gross ton rise in the American merchant fleet and calls for charging war losses against wartime ship costs to sustain competition. Buyers at the New England Purchasing Agents Association Christmas dinner are described enjoying a lively event at the New American House.
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Alexander
New England
New American
New England Purchasing Agents Association
Wife Granted Divorce From F J Koebele in Suffolk Court
Mrs. Bessie Koebele of Tewksbury obtained a divorce from Frank J. Koebele after testifying to Judge Bell in Suffolk County divorce court that he abused her regularly and boasted she would be lucky to have food and shelter in his kitchen. The couple married in 1912 and separated after years of his beating.
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Bessie Koebele
Frank J. Koebele
Tewksbury
Bell
Suffolk County
City Extends Public Works Contracts Amid Material Shortage
Commissioner Sullivan with the Mayor approved extensions for paying work on city streets totaling 500 600. Extensions range six to nearly ten weeks as cement remains scarce and procurement difficult. The Finance Commission criticized this practice, calling it favoritism toward certain contractors.
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Commissioner of Public Works
Sullivan
Finance Commission
Widow Jessie Russell Found Dead by Gas In Lynn Home
Despondent over ill health Mrs. Jessie Russell 55 widow of Civil War veteran Harry Russell took her life by inhaling illuminating gas in bed at 18 Rantoul Avenue Lynn. She had moved from Swampscott a month earlier and an advertisement for Adamson's Balsam claims 49 years of use.
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Jessie Russell
Harry Russell
Rantoul Avenue
Lynn
Russell
Swampscott
Ponzi Becomes Plymouth Jail Librarian
Charles Ponzi once famed as a Boston financial genius is named official librarian at the Plymouth house of correction by Sheriff Earl P. Blake. He takes charge of a large library as his first jail assignment while neighbors include two Brockton inmates convicted of manslaughter.
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Plymouth
Charles Ponzi
Boston
Plymouth House of Correction
Earl P. Blake
Ponzi
John A. Donnell
Brockton
Walter N. Chessman
GOBS Aid Christmas Health Seal Sale at South Station
A sailor from the Charlestown Navy Yard led a raucous push at Boston’s South Station to sell Christmas Seals for Mrs. F. M. Lusk in charge. The crowd gathered as the health fighters sold quickly, with plans to distribute stamps at the navy yard post office.
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Boston Tuberculosis Association
South Station
Charlestown Navy Yard
F. M. Lusk
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U. S
AV. Howland
WITS
Sheldon
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The
Autocar Company
Ardmore, Pa
Autocar
F. J. Koebele
Adamson
Freiman
Tatana
Bromfield St
Bostar
Moxie
Yours
the Moxie Company
F. M. Archer
Southern California
Los Angeles
North Western Terminal
Chicago
Omaha
Salt Lake City
Continental Limited
Pullman
J. H. Schultz
Washington &T
Willard Massey
U. P
Washington St
Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific Salt Lake
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