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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1937
Page
7
Denver inventor Jos eph A. Shires offers to air condition Pasadena whole city. He claims his invention would temper winter fogs, cool summers, warm winters, reduce smoke smudge in curtains and adjust humidity. City directors receive the offer with wounded pride.
The University of Cincinnati reports its freshman class shows the finest physical form and claims the survey only covers the top layer. Dr. Lawrence B Chenoweth warns that a broader look at poorer areas would reveal malnutrition and disease and emphasize the need for housing, health education, and stricter marriage laws to prevent degeneration.
Editorial notes announce the installation of Rev W W Walker as pastor of Grace Evangelical Lutheran church in Lorain City. He comes from Pittsburgh district and is welcomed with confidence in the congregation and community. Also mentions Sheriff Grall's campaign to reduce car hazards and a springtime nature note.
Sympathy extends to Mr and Mrs William Messmore of Wellington over the death of their 19 months old daughter who swallowed pills from a table bottle believed out of reach. The loss is described as a tragedy and words cannot ease the grief.
A safety program urged youths to report gun play to adults after tragic incidents. The fourth annual North Central district Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers conference praised by Mrs. Andrew Rawson featured Grove Patterson urging representative government and responsibility. The visit to Elyria Home for the Aged highlighted care, staff, and new cottages under construction, with Harriet Whitmer of Ginling College sharing insights on China.
Miss Witmer notes modern Chinese language shifts and land productivity. She observes China’s unity and rising capability to tackle population pressures, with women active in government and commerce. She describes Nanking as a walled, garden city with agriculture, and mentions her July return to China.
Elyria merchants N.S. Fitch and N. Fitch Jr. will visit Chicago to attend a two day program on April 4 and 5 marking Hart Schaffner & Marx fiftieth anniversary. Industry leaders will speak at a dinner led by Bruce Barton with Mark Cresap presiding.
Readings reflect Peter’s flaws and strengths from fishing nets to following Jesus. The meditation traces Peter’s humility after a failed catch, his presumption on the waters, and the risen Christ test, ending with his perseverance and devotion.
A compilation of notable figures born or died, including Harriet Prescott Spofford born in Calais Maine and died 1921, John Burroughs born Roxbury New York died 1921, Sara Conboy Boston textile worker and organizer, and various milestones from 1848 to 1936. It also notes openings and events like San Francisco public school, first Pony Express riders, Jesse James killed, Edison's Vitascope debut, and figures such as Dolly Curtis Gann, Hauptmann, Luce, Jessel, Anglin, Fisher, Haslam, Leslie Howard.
Today’s natives have a brooding nature and prefer solitary life. There is a hint of success for those who take strenuous action. Traveling to distant countries is sometimes indicated.
A Stanford professor argues that repeated floods and disasters reveal a national tendency to accept inefficient work. He explains how division of labor and fear of unemployment sustain the make-work fallacy, urging removal of that fear to promote economical production.
Question one quotes Oscar of the Waldorf on simplicity of great people and mislabels, then contrasts true greatness with notoriety. Question two argues education as access to truth and free discussion to advance democracy, with caveats about democracy and horse sense. Question three cites a census claim that men lie about age more with age, quoting W. L. Austin. Copyright 1937. John F. Dille Co.
The item lists prominent historical figures with lifespans and death dates. It mentions Washington Irvine a revered New York historian and author, Edward Everett Hale a Unitarian clergyman, and George H. Derby a New York humorist and soldier, noting birthplaces and death sites.
Rochester, a century old city, claims numerous firsts. Founding of the American Bible Society in 1821, early abolitionist and temperance movements, Erie Canal planning, first daily newspaper west of the Hudson, Western Union origin, and birthplace of Mormonism and spiritualism. Susan B. Anthony led suffrage. first shoe factory. tomato origin. baseball curve invention and related umpire chase at the park.
Possum Kingdoms no more as the Works Progress Administration site near Mineral Wells is abandoned. Local labor will finish ongoing construction projects and repurpose the area after the transient camp was closed.
Mark Spill, a master forger, takes a birthday break after 63 years with a dealer aiding the pause. He is the fourth generation in his family in the axe manufacturing trade with a son and grandson also at the factory. In Sweetwater Texas a veteran hobo guides a trainer youth to the police station, saying the boy is too young to roam with the tramp. He asks authorities to notify the boy’s parents to collect him.
Kent State University dean of men Dr. Raymond E. Manchester says students view hazing as childish and that over the last 25 years hazing has been fading from colleges as students focus on other activities.
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