US TO DETERMINE COST OF DREDGING HOUSATONIC RIVER
U S engineers will survey the Housatonic River in spring to estimate dredging costs for navigability. The effort, led by E Harv on the Housatonic Navigation committee, follows a letter to Hebert Snow and seeks congressional authorization after district and federal engineer reviews. Manufacturing firms and local leaders back the plan as a key regional improvement.
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United States Engineers
Housatonic River
E Harv
Housatonic Navigation Committee
Chaiman Harris
Hebert Snow
Hartford
I W Crawley
United States Engineer's Office
Providence
District Engineer's Office
United States Board of Enginsters
Washington
Navigation Committee
Robbers Overpower Watchman Take $20,000 Rubber Cargo
Six armed men overpowered a watchman at the Cherry Scanlon garage on New York's Lower East Side and fled with a truck carrying crude rubber valued at twenty thousand dollars.
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New York
Dee 2
Cherry-Scanlon
Lower East Side
Rebekah Lodge to Host Dance at the Ritz
Purity Rebekah Lodge No 645 plans a dance for Wednesday evening December 9 at the Ritz. Dorothy Daltonia leads with assistance from Noble Grand Huttie K Freudenteir Miss Kate Rosenbluh Miss Anna Fischer and others including Miss Henriett Harrison Joseph Schneidt Simuel Lefkowitz and Morris Rosen.
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Purity Rebekah Lodge No
I Oo
KFFPF
Ritz
Dorothy Daltonia
Noble Grand Hutiie K Freudenteir
Kate Rosenbluh
Anna Fischer
Henriett. Harrison
Joseph Schneidt
Simuel Lefkowitz
Morris Rosen
Congress Leaders Change as New Chairmen Preside
Congress to usher in a new session with sweeping committee changes. Senate seats new chairs include Watson for Interstate Commerce and Stanfield for Public Lands, while House shifts appoint Parker for Interstate and Foreign Commerce and others for Flood Control and more.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
James E Watson
Indiana
Elligen D Smith
South Carolina
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
James &. Parker
New York
Samuel E Winslow
Massachusetts
Interstate and Foreign Commercce Committee
Stanfield
Oregon
Ladd
North Dakota
Public Lands Committee
Moses
New Hampshire
Starling
South Dakota
Norbeck
Bursum
New Mexico
Thomas F. Curry
California
Royal © Johnson
Charles E. Fuller
Trinda
Frank D Scott
Michigan
John M Morin
Pennsylvania
Read Store Cuts Employes Hours
The D M Read company will cut one half an hour from store hours starting Monday December. The change aims to improve service and working conditions, with doors opening at 9 and hours set from 9 to 6. Current hours are 9 to 6 with luncheon relief planned to keep only a third of staff off mid day. The new system, used in eastern cities, is expected to please workers and the public.
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D M Read
Daniel M Jones
White House cop subjected to mutilating operation in Washington
Paul A McDuffie, a $2 a member of the White House police detachment, was mutilated in an operation last night or today at a local hospital. In a dazed condition he could not identify his assailants, recalling only that he had gone to a house off duty with four enlisted men.
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Washington
Paul A McDuffie
White House
McDuffie
Challenger Receives Second Check on Long‑Due City Taxes
A challenger announced on Veterans Day that he has received a second check for 31 from the Automatic Machine Company, an installment on long‑due city taxes. The payment comes as part of continuing efforts to settle overdue tax accounts.
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Tan Coles
Howard
Challenger
Veterday
Automatic Machine Fool Company
Child in fire wreck kills three year old in town
A three year old boy perished as a fire destroyed the home of Homo Marlen in town. An elder winter was seriously injured and warned in the chaotic aftermath of the blaze.
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Homo Marlen
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