Pave Streets Contract 10 Awarded by Mayor Curley
Mayor Curley awarded Contract 10 for sheet asphalt paving in Roxbury Charlestown East Boston and surrounding sections. Bermudez company won with a bid of 111 542 beating Rowe Contracting 116 044 and Warren Brothers 118 208. Streets include South Street West Roxbury Harvard Street and more.
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Roxbury
Charlestown
Boston
Curley
Bermudez Company
Rowe Contracting Company
Warren Brothers
South Street
West Roxbury
Harvard Street
NSW Premier Holman to be feted in Boston tour
The Hon. William A. Holman prime minister of New South Wales arrives in Boston for a U S tour. A historic spots auto tour, visits to Governor McCall at the State House and Mayor Curley at City Hall, and a Parker House luncheon headline the program.
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Boston
William A. Holman
New South Wales
United States
Governor McCall
State House
Mayor Curley
City Hall
Parker House
Wheatless days praised as great success statewide
Statewide abstinence from bread made with wheat flour has been widely observed for two days. Officials report the wheatless initiative as a great success, with public favor noted by Henry B. Endicott's office.
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State Food Conservator
Henry B. Endicott
Wheatless bread movement gains Boston support
State House staff salutes the wheatless plan and encourages continuing two wheatless days weekly. From Back Bay hotels to small eateries residents observe Endicott’s request for no wheat bread with substitutes like rye and corn johnny cakes. A reader from Grafton provides a Southern rice corn bread recipe using rice, corn meal, sugar, baking powder, salt, milk, eggs and butter.
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Bay State
State House
Back Bay
Endicott
Louise J. Lombard
Grafton
Post
New England’s first retail dry goods aviator begins training
Thomas Leo Hill of West Roxbury, 24, a Jordan Marsh & Co. buyer for domestics in the basement, starts active flyer training at Technology under government direction. He left a fine post to serve. About 300 store employees presented him with a wrist watch after the call to duty was delivered by Wil liam P. Rohan, basement store superintendent.
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New England
Thomas Leo Hill
West Roxbury
Young Hill
Jordan Marsh & Co
Hill
Aviation Department
William P. Rohan
Harvard Dining Raises Weekly Board 75 Cents
The Harvard Dining Association increased weekly food costs by 75 cents for this year. Memorial Hall board will be $6.25 replacing $5.50, and students will shift from Memorial Hall to the Harvard Union dining room as the main eating place. War conditions drove the price rise and dining shifts.
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Harvard
Harvard Dining Association
Memorial Hall
Harvard Union
Alien slacker from Chatham held on draft registration
John Fernandez, a Cape Verde Islands native and cranberry picker in Chatham, was arrested by Deputy Marshal Bancroft for failing to register for the draft. He told Commissioner Hayes he wished to return home and would not fight. He was released on his own recognizance until Oct 5 for final determination.
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John Fernandez
Cape Verde Islands
Chatham
Bancroft
United States
Hayes
Rogers
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