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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1921
Page
10
A court ruling claiming a wife belongs at home with her husband provokes strong reactions from Mrs. Clarice Margolies Baright and Magistrate McQuade. Baright condemns the act as outdated while noting healthy communication is essential in marriage and urging fairness for both genders.
San Francisco report cites Panama Canal capacity of 16 550 ships per year under normal conditions. Acting Panama Canal Zone governor Jay J. Morrow explains that ship size and lock throughput limit daily capacity, with an annual cargo estimate around 63.3 million tons if fully loaded.
The article outlines that women in Ireland suffer most as homes are ruined and unemployment rises across North and South. In Dublin five thousand children survive on scarce rations, while Belfast faces similar hunger. The American Committee for Relief in Ireland seeks $10,240,000 under Captain Joan F. Lucey to feed refugees and fund recovery efforts.
Five Elyria men recount sightings of a winged angel in a mist near Penfield while returning home and later describe a Berea home where a bright horseshoe light appeared at a window. they say they had been drinking only well water.
In Boston on April 2 Commissioner Hayes released Max Barrack of Chelsea to his wife within a week to find him work. Barrack was arrested after his wife showed officers a still hidden in a trapdoor. Mrs Barrack testified she had to work for twenty cents an hour to feed four children while he produced moonshine. Prohibition officers contributed to her children. The commissioner ordered Barrack to work, even at ten cents a day, and entrusted his wife to decide his fate.
Lawrence Mass April 2 Thomas Whalen once held in Mountjoy prison Dublin proclaimed his innocence in a letter to his mother later sent to his sister in Andover He was 21 and the fourth oldest in the family. His sister Mary Smith said he was a music student and a singer of prominence at his arrest in January.
In 1731 Benjamin Franklin founded the first circulating library in Philadelphia. The move marked an early push for public literacy and access to books, shaping the city’s intellectual life and future library movements.
California is widely called the Golden State while Colorado bears the Centennial State nickname. The terms reflect historical and cultural associations used in discussions of state identity and branding.
L. A. Burgett of Lorain Ohio named first vice president at Peoples Saving Bank and noted as a building contractor.
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