Build Now movement gains Boston area banking, civic support
The Build Now campaign backed by the Boston Post receives endorsement from Cambridge officials and Dorchester groups. Bankers are urged to finance new construction as economists cite job creation, with local leaders noting rising demand for housing and the need for bank courage to expand lending.
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Workingmen’s Co-operative Bank
New England
The
Post
Chicago
Cambridge
Cambridge Standard
Boston Post
Common Council
Board of Trade
Good
Walter G. Davis
United States
Chelsea
Salem
Roxbury
Dorchester Board of Trade
John J. Dailey
Browne Nichols Takes Up Boxing
Browne Nichols School adopts boxing as an authorized sport and names Larry Connolly former middleweight pro as instructor. Connolly, a South Boston native, is expected to lead Beale Street School in the sport with a strong ring record behind him. He begins duties immediately.
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Browne & Nichols School
Larry Connolly
Browne
Waltham Hish
Connolly
South Boston
Beate Street
City urged to build annex for English High School
Dorchester writer J B Scott urges Boston to act on the long delayed Dartmouth street annex to the English High School. He criticizes unsightly Dartmouth street dwellings and renting distant space on Tremont street, urging immediate construction to complete the square block.
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Dartmouth Street
Tremont Street
Dorchester
Build Now campaign backed by Boston business leaders
Willard D. Woodbury and partners advocate immediate large construction projects to reduce unemployment and stabilize commerce. They urge banks, real estate, and government to adopt the Build Now slogan and authorize contracts on appraisers' stores immigration station Commonwealth pier No 1 dry dock and a new federal building in East and South Boston.
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Immigration Station
Commonwealth Pier No. 1
East
Boston
South
Federal Building
Churley
Willard D. Woodbury
Woodbury & Leighton Company
Grocers Baking Co Expands With New Plant in Dorchester
The Grocers Baking Company initiates a $112000 construction program at 65 Hast Cottage Street Dorchester, with McDonald and Kivell as contractors. A $12000 fireproof stable will accompany the bakery, both brick and reinforced concrete, set for completion by June 1 as part of the unit system to allow future expansion.
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Haking Company
Hast Cottage Street
Dorchester
McDonald & Kivell
Grocers Baking Company
Boston
Boston Post
Walter K. Hutchinson
Building boom in Massachusetts urged by banker reader
A Boston area correspondent reports three-quarters of a million dollars in recent Massachusetts construction loans and urges savings banks to fund home building. He calls for a fixed city building code, a city commission to set laws, and a statewide campaign to boost industry and home investment, with Cambridge showing quiet activity but future potential.
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Forris W. Norris
Cambridge
Department of the Post
Springfield
Pittsfield
Frank W. Merrick
Savin Hill Improvement Association
United Improvement Association
Boston
Merrick
Massachusetts
Middle
Far West
O’hearn
Curley
Greater
Boosters' beefsteak dinner set by Bay State Auto Club
The Bay State Automobile Association will host a boosters' beefsteak dinner at the Hotel Lenox on Thursday evening February 11. Tom Cotter notes a $250 purse from the Weea Chain Tire Grip Company for the fastest time over the first 100 miles of the Vanderbilt cup race in San Francisco on February 22.
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Bay State Automobile Association
Hotel Lenox
Tom Cotter
Weea Chain Tire Grip Company
San Francisco
Ford
Seattle
J. B. Siegfried
King Motor Car Company
Harvard Webfees Win Meet At Brookline Baths
Harvard varsity swimmers defeated the Web Feet team of Andover Academy by 28 to 25 at Brookline Municipal Baths. Brookline High School swam against Harvard freshmen, beating them 38 to 15.
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Harvard
Andover Academy
Brookline Municipal Baths
Brookline High School
Harvard and Andover Swim Meet Ends With Fast Times
Harvard defeats Andover in a competitive dual meet at a famed tank, led by Fullerton and Fitzgerald. Brookline High tops Harvard freshmen in a thrilling relay as Handy anchors a record 200 yard relay time.
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Andover
Thomas Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Fullerton
Harvard
Brookline High
University
Handy
Brookline
Hitchcock
Undersee and Hitchcock
Harvard-Andover
Wentworth
Crane
Seymour
Jenney
Tullerton
Mayer
Scranton
Bradley
Peters
Dixon
Fitgerald
Searle
Fitsgerald
Jackson
Gould
Kingsbury
RB. H
McMillan
Prendergast
Ape Francis
Whiting
B. H
Law
Whalen
Richmond
B. Bsg
Undersee
McKinnon
Binochasa
Stewart
Shelbach
Brookline High defeats Milton Academy in 3 2 fast game
Brookline High beat Milton Academy 3 to 2 in a quick match at Milton yesterday. Scorers were Stevans Arthur Fennessy Cabot Humphrey with a 19 minute period two attendance listed at 350. Referee Shea Umpire Coon and timers Crompton Thurber.
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Milton Academy
Brookline High
Milton
Brookline
Milton A
Stevans
Techies
Cabot Arthur
Erawroosebeavent Siiors
Tae Trainor Taylor
Cesen
Humphrey Johnson
Fennessy
O'Herd
Steef
Johnson Souther
Thurber
Arthur
Cabot
Humphrey
Shea
Coon
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Parker D. Morris
Harvard Imrovement Association
Morris
Alonzo E. Yent
Harvard Improvement Association of
Yont
Detroit
Boylston St
Charles River Parkway
Brookline St
Press Fi Fishing Company
Maurice Ketten
Goshrie Coir
Lizzié
Mel Tolla
Reed-Crockett Co. N. E. Distributors
Huntington Ave
Tel
B. B
BROWNE @ NICHOLS
J. B. Scott
English High School
Long
Naton
Great Boston
Park Street
Madras
Ueges KI
Harvard Webfees
Milton AC
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