Word: merrimackers
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...very land it stands on was sold or deeded to the city by Amoskeag owners. Since 1805 Amoskeag has provided the city's business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag's workers, jobless for ten months, had at least the certainty that they would never work for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. again...
Last spring 7,000 gloomy Amoskeag mill hands filed into the Manchester Armory, voted by a slim majority to accept $9.60 a week if the plant would reopen. Few days later the flood crest of the Merrimack River wiped out $2,500,000 worth of Amoskeag property, ruined all hopes of putting the plant in operation. Editorialized the Boston Herald last week: "If there is any satisfaction for the unemployed in knowing that they stuck to the ship to the last, these Amoskeag workers have...
Deer, partridges and even rabbits are out of season now, yet one day last week saw a host of hunters march forth from Merrimack, N. H., with guns loaded, triggers oiled. Through woods and fields near the farm of Thomas H. Braden they prowled. Before long Police Chief Frank R. Flanders was seen taking aim and- ker-blam-down came the quarry: a full-grown (60-lb.) male baboon. The hunt continued. Toward nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great...
...Merrimack was comparatively peaceful, though it and its tributaries destroyed some three millions worth of New Hampshire roads, and rose 25 feet to lash at and flood the textile mills of Manchester, Lowell & Lawrence. Hundreds were thrown out of work indefinitely...
Haverhill--O. J. Carlton '99, 83 Merrimack Street, Haverhill...