Dover Point Bridge Construction Begins Across Dover Channel
The Dover Point bridge project started with pile driving for a cofferdam while lighters anchor in the swift current. Eight piers will support a steel structure carrying Boston and Maine tracks and broad traffic lanes, with new approaches and roads linking Bean's Hill and Newington side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover Point
Crandall Engineering Co
Cambridge
Mass
William
Blanchard
Boston & Maine
Boston Dé Maine
Bean's Hill
B. & M. Bridge
Bean’s Hill
Newington
Dover
State of
New Hampshire College Road
Coe’s Corner
New Hampshire
Million Retail Jobs Seen From Johnson Codes
Washington on August 1 reports that Johnson orders promise about one million new jobs in retail nationwide. Codes set 40 hour weeks for most retailers and 48 hours for food dealers, with 8 hour days for grocer clerks and higher minimum wages by region. Growth depends on voluntary agreements by stores and associations across all retail sectors.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Industriel Ad
Cillistrator
Johnson
District of Columbia
Labor First Policy Adopts Public Works Guidance
The Associated Press reports Washington on August first that state advisory committees were instructed to favor human labor over machinery whenever feasible in projects funded by the 3.3 billion dollar public works fund. The outline requires equitable job distribution, bans convict labor, prioritizes local and union labor, establishes a 30 hour week with make-up time, ensures living wages, prohibits wage deductions for goods or rent, and prefers competitively priced materials from approved codes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ickes
Industrial Administration
Kidnapped Oil Man Urschel Safe at Home
Charles F Urschel the Oklahoma city oil millionaire was reported safe at home after being kidnapped July 22 by machine gun fire. spokesman Arthur Feiligson declined to say if ransom was paid. Also noted was John J O Connell Sr kidnapping case in Albany and Gov Lehman urging a ransom payment felony.
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Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma City
Arthur Feeligson
Urschel
Manny Strewl
John J. O'Connell
Albany
N. Y
O'Connell
O’connell
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Baltimore
Maryland
May pick F W Branch for district attorney
The article suggests Frederic W. Branch is favored to succeed Raymond W. Smith as U S district attorney, with D E Sullivan discussed as assistant district attorney. A Manchester Democrat is expected to be named to either district attorney or U S marshal, and Sullivan appears likely for an assistant district attorney. Senator Brown and Congressman Rogers are reviewing candidates for the second assistant district attorney.
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U. S
Manchester
New Hampshire
Frederic W. Branch
Raymond WU
Smith
Franklin
D. E. Sullivan
Sullivan
Brown
Rogers
Publishers Discuss Code in New Hampshire Meeting
In Concord the weekly publishers printers and binders met in the House of Representatives chamber to elect officers Harry Metcalf president and Miss M Susanne Voisieux secretary. The group planned attendance at the Chicago national conference with George S Cummings of Peterborough named to represent the state.
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Concord
House of Representatives
Harry Metcalf
M. Susanne ‘Oiseux
Plymouth
F. W. Hartford
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
George S. Cummings
Peterborough
State Senate
Chicago
Daily Publishers Association
Governor’s Council
Hart
Ford John A. Muehring
Manchester
James Mr. Langley
Hugh Johnson
National Recovery Administration
Disturbances Mark Opening of Milk Strike in New York
Violent start to a state-wide milk strike hits Oneida Lewis and Herkimer counties. State troopers clash with road pickets in Glenfield and Constableville, Lewis County, as 120 cans of skimmed milk are dumped and trucks bound for New York are blocked or partisan milk is spilled.
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N. Y
Rene
N. YY
Violense
Oneida
Lewis
Herkimer
State Milk Control Board
Glenfield
Constabbilville
Lewis County
Watertown
Boonville
Oneida County
Booneville
Lowville
New York
Turin
Code interpretation for newspapers and printers debated
John Pearson, adviser to New Hampshire business men under the NRA, was asked to explain how the code applies to varials branches and how the code could be handled by newspapers and printers amid pending settlement discussions.
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John Pearson
New Hampshire
N. R. A. Law
Obsequies for David Fleishman Held at Temple of Israel
The funeral for David Fleishman who died in a Monday afternoon automobile accident was held at 10 30 a m from his 28 Jefferson Street home. Services were in the Temple of Israel conducted by Rabbi Harry Liberson. Interment followed in the Temple of Israel cemetery. Ben Hart of Manchester recently returned from Washington DC and joined his family at their Newcastle summer home The Anchorage for the weekend.
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David Fleishman
Greenland
Jefferson Street
Temple of Israel
Harry Liberson
Temple of Israel Cemetery
Ben Hart
Manchester
Washington, D. C
Anchorage
Newcastle
Dover Mass Roadster Crash Kills Two Noted Residents
Dover Massachusetts August 1 Miss C Mau of Stanwood 20 a prominent Dover society girl and Dr Jacob Cowin 25 of Duxbury were killed when their roadster skidded and crashed into a tree. Their bodies were found beside the road by Mrs I Tucker Burr Needham who alerted police and a physician who pronounced both dead from fractured skulls.
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Dover
Mass
C. Maugot Stanwood
Jacob Cowin
Duxbury
I. Tucker Burr
Needham
Burr
Barbers of Portsmouth Meet to Adopt Code
Portsmouth barbers hold a meeting on Wednesday evening August 2 at Carpenters hall core Ladd and High streets to establish a barber code. Every barber in Portsmouth is requested to attend under committee order N R A.
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Barbers of
Portsmouth
Carpenters’ Hall
Core, Ladd and
High Street
N. H
National Recovery Administration
National Restaurant Association
Washington
Administration
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Jillion
Kittery Grange
Radio Broadcasting Orchestra
WCSH
Arcadia
Mrs. Roosevelt
James A. Mollison
Hyde Park
Roosevelt
George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Morrisons
Sckies
Charles Urschel
Dondero
Portsmouth, N. H
McKee
Badger-Rand Ice Company
Cate Street
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