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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1930
Page
7
Reports on Wall Street lending show banks can raise tens of millions within hours through linked institutions. A Philadelphia Record experiment reveals voice recognition over the phone is unreliable, with six of ten guesses incorrect and even familiar voices misidentified.
In Every body's Magazine, Booker T. Washington recalls urging an old negro farmer to diversify from cotton to sweet potatoes. He argued the one crop system limits earnings, noting the potential to earn far more per acre with mixed planting. The farmer agreed as the plan was explained, validating the push for new agricultural ideas.
The farmer, aging and seasoned in cotton farming, contemplates continuing cotton cultivation for the remaining years. He concedes that planting sweet potatoes could double his land’s yield, but his long-held practice keeps him rooted in cotton.
A London M A P recalls a German university affair where the Kaiser personally settled a departmental dispute after being alerted by professors. A Washington man tells of courting with kerosene lamps, noting his fiancée controls the lamp’s oil for a precise 9 30 bedtime cue.
A local report notes that near every bill passes through compromise between western and eastern districts of Washington and Oregon. Western parts share common interests, while eastern regions align differently, suggesting unity within each side if divisions were geographic rather than political.
British naturalist Lydekker argues living African elephants may be larger than extinct giants. He cites hippos, giraffes, and rhinos as comparably sized to ancestors and notes humans now stand taller than any prior era. Marine life shows modern forms exceeding past species in many cases. He warns against overexploitation of the elephant seal and discusses fossil versus modern sizes across mollusks, sharks, and whales.
In Milltown and Dayton, old Bern hosts a faux Dutch windmill at the end of the whiskey windmill tower area. Local tale says the mill came from Holland years ago and was raised by a farmer’s heir, tying to burgher lineage. In truth the rail line is only 20 years old, built by an Irish carpenter for a Scottish farmer renting from a French owner. The site draws water colorists, sketchers, and amateur photographers seeking a historic charm.
St Mary’s church presents a Lent program with masses Sundays at 7:30 and 4:00 PM, Sunday School at 2:00 PM, Sunday evening sermon on the Holy Sacrifice of Mass followed by the Stations of the Cross, midweek sermons by visiting clergy beginning March 4, and Friday Stations of the Cross all at standard time.
A section of eminent London physicians has established a permanent Lorain branch in Pierce Block to offer three months of free medical services to all invalids, medicines excluded, with no charges for any service during the period. They promise thorough exam, candid prognosis, and treatment for ailments from catarrh to cancer, epilepsy to goitre, with consultations in English German and French.
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