Winter menace causes child coasting deaths urge caution
A Massachusetts warning details two coasting fatalities Pauline Marini a five year old at West Quincy struck by a truck and Lowell Tyrell a two year old hit by a car in Lowell The author urges parents to restrict sledding on streets as risky behavior and notes drivers may be unable to prevent such tragedies The piece emphasizes neglect can cause lifelong sorrow and calls for preventive action in Portsmouth streets also showing children pulling sleds with ropes attached to cars to illustrate dangerous activity
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West Quincy
Mass
Pauline Marini
Lowell
Marion Tyrell
Portsmouth
Summer Street
House passes 2 percent beer bill in narrow vote
The House approved by 230 to 165 a Democratic bill to modify the Volstead Act and legalize a two percent beer salable beverage. Speaker Garner hailed the vote as reflecting public will while Majority Leader Rainey and Ways and Means Chairman Collier praised the revenue and national importance of the measure. The bill now goes to the Senate for early action in a brief session.
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Associated Press
Wreasington Dee
House
Garner
Rainey
Chairman Collier
Ways and Means Committee
Collier
Roosevelt declines joint responsibility on debt commission
Washington reports President Roosevelt in four telegrams with President elect Hoover discussing the proposed joint debt and international commission. Roosevelt says he wishes a free hand after March 4 and avoids committing to appointing the commission without Hoover's support.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Congress
Traut
Debts Commission
Fun
Conlovess
Kills Brother in Hunting Accident
Tallahassee Fla Dec 22 Gov Doyle E Carlt er was advised his brother Carl of Wauchula was killed accidentally by another brother Alton while deer hunting in the Everglades. Carl Carlton a farmer and cattle raiser, was married with seven children.
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Associated Press
Tallahasse
Fla
Doyle E. Carlter
Carl
Wauchula
Alton
Everglades
Carl Carlton
Rehearsal Tonight For Kittery Fire Department Minstrel Show
All members of the Kittery Fire Department minstrel show are urged to be at the Fire House at 7 tonight for rehearsal.
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Kittery Fire Department
Million railway workers approve extended pay cut pact
One million rail workers through 1500 representatives agree to continue 10 percent lower pay for nine more months. The agreement, reached after 11 days of talks, cuts take effect for another year ending Oct. 31, with key unions briefly opposing before approving. Alexander Whitney and William Thiehoff signed the accord after a late-night session.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Hrginemen
Lebanon Mill Has Big Order
Lincoln December 22 Michael Black age 53 longtime Parker Young Co mill employee was killed at the Lincoln paper mill yesterday. His body was found around 9 am on the pulp chips conveyor to the digester feeding bins. He was alone at the top when the accident occurred and may have fallen or slipped into the conveyor possibly following a fainting spell.
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Lincoln
Michael Black
Parker Young Company
Black
Stock Market Slips As Rail Shares Lead Decline
New York December stock prices weakened with rails dragging markets lower to near autumn lows. Early gains faded as several issues dropped one to three points, with mixed recoveries later. Miscellaneous issues slipped two to two points while Owens Glass and Crown Cork initially held, then also fell.
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New York
Allied Chemical
American Telephone
American Cau
Ligects & Meyars B
Consolidated Gas
Case
Int. Harvester
Johns Manville
Public Service of New Jersey
United Aircraft
U. S. Stel
Common
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Owens Glass
Crown &Corx
Former Keene Mayor Dies
John J. Landers aged 42, a former mayor of Keene in 1931 and a leading criminal lawyer, died today in a Boston hospital. A prominent Democrat and fraternal leader, he studied at St Anselm's College and Boston University Law School and had been a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from New Hampshire's Second District last September.
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Keene
John J. Landers
New Hampshire
Boston Hospital
Landers
St. Anselm's College
Boston University Law School
Congress
N. H
Harvard Bridge collision leaves one dead five hurt
Cambridge December 22 Charles H Stanton a Harvard freshman was fatally injured in a two car crash at the Cambridge end of the Harvard bridge. Edward W Marshall a Northeastern University instructor, aged 27, was reported dying at a hospital along with five other persons injured in the collision.
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Cambridge
Mass
Charles H. Stanton
Boston
Harvard University
Harvard Bridge
Edward W. Marshall
Northeastern University
Col Sile Engine Company Observes Its Anniversary
Portsmouth firemen celebrated the 125th anniversary of Engine Co. No. 2 with a banquet at the Central Fire Station. Ex-members and guests, over 50 in all, heard toast after toast from Perley Hersey and Chief W F Woods, with Mayor F W Hartford praising the department’s long service and recalling historic fires and early equipment.
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Engine Co. No. 2
Central Fire Station
Portsmouth
Perley Hersey
Col. Life Co. No. 2
Edward Morrison
Mr. Morrison
W. F. Woods
Willard Gray
Henry Payne
Col. Lise
F. W. Hartford
Hartford
Col. Life Company
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