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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1921
Page
12
Chicago reports week ending today with hog prices down slightly by 26 cents from last week while top light grades reached 9.90. Cattle values declined with cows and heifers off 25 to 50 cents and top steers at 9.50, sheep and lambs gaining about 50 cents. Receipts totaled 50,907 cattle 117,178 hogs 80,629 sheep, versus 46,359 124,221 95,707 last week.
Berlin businessmen advertise for marriage as financial rehabilitation, offering to give up bachelorhood if a large fortune is provided. An example reads a Hamburg business owner, 33, seeks a life companion from the best families, with medium height and slender figure, and a large fortune.
Government forces were dispatched into the coal fields of South Wales and Seoland late today. They concentrate at strategic points near principal mines to protect them if needed.
The Horse Association of America defends the mule and urges farmers to raise mules as a sound investment. They report millions of male mules working on American farms and claim the animal yields higher clear profits than others for breeders and the nation.
Governor Edward I Edwards announced approval to hold the Dempsey Carpentier bout in New Jersey. He said it would be beneficial for the state if conducted properly.
Paris April 9. Duc de Vicence d Espeuilles faced Berlin mortgage of 900000 francs on Avenue de Wagram property. He argues wartime loss of Caulaincourt estate near St Quentin valued at 2 0NA WO0 francs and asserts any debt would fall under treaty with French government.
Wheeling West Virginia April 9 The Polish merchant Wrobel traveled 4400 miles to Beach Bottom to see his wife but discovered she had married another man a man named George Neckish The wife Robel refused to confirm her identity and Wrobel faced arrest on a charge described as gammy.
One hundred twenty five workers at August Wagney Co struck in Columels after officials refused improved contracts. The firm offered a contract with a 2.5 percent weekly cut as bargaining.
In April about 60,000 gallons of liquor seized over two years of police activity in Gary were dumped into the sewer at the city police headquarters. The confiscated liquor included bonded whiskey wine home brew and gin.
Columbus April 4 Sunday marks tax rating day as Ohio counties determine stock and bond values and personal property for December payments and next June. County auditors mailed statements to those who paid personal property tax last year. Chicago curfew ordinance to start immediately barring minors from streets 10 p.m. to 6 a.m unless with parents, officials say it could cut police workload by about 25 percent.
The article reports President Harding delaying action on the Knox resolution until after May 1 when France set a deadline for German reparations talks. Senator Knox will likely introduce it once the Colombian treaty is resolved, but the measure may linger in the Foreign Relations Committee. Opposition within the cabinet grows as Hughes and Hoover reportedly favor a different peace plan bearing the administration’s stamp rather than the Senate’s.
In London a parrot raised alarm by shrieking its mistress’s name, prompting a neighbor to break into a flat and stop a would be killer dressed as a woman. The fortune teller, famed for telling fortunes, had refused to reveal her hidden money. The suspect was Bovick.
Ohio State University student Bill Blank ran into a university jewelry shop and asked the proprietor why his watch would not run. He described finding three small pictures of girls, two blond hairs, one brunette hair, powder remnants, and a ribbon fragment in the watch. He claimed the power articles were tied to the watch and appeared puzzled, saying he received the watch from his father.
In Berlin a German woman involved in a court case received an official letter that began with Sehr geehrte frau and other formalities, revealing a mix up of titles and gendered forms in the clerk's correspondence. The incident underscores lingering bureaucratic missteps in official German court communication.
Chicago grain futures closed mixed with fair gains on Saturday at the Chicago Board of Trade. May corn rose 1 4 to 1 2 cents, July and September higher. oats gained as short covering supported values. Provisions also showed fair support as labor leaders urged constitutional safeguards and government ownership of railroads.
After hours of closed door talks in New Orleans officials plan to organize a cotton disposal company. They will collect data and statistics and call a meeting of southern cotton exporters in late April or early May to form and launch the enterprise.
A four year old watchman at the Merchant's Loan and Trust Co. building survived a ten story fall when an elevator support collapsed. He was taken to Cook County Hospital unconscious and near death but only received minor bruises and was back at work today.
Labor groups refuse to recognize injunction terms in a dispute over prohibitions on labor actions. The confrontation centers on a court order and the workers push back against compliance.
The text details a labor agenda proposing public election of federal judges, two year prohibition on dismissals, a federal employment service boost, a broad probe into corporate spy systems used against unions, and credit administration by a republic trust. It also calls for legislation protecting unions from anti trust and anti conspiracy laws or granting federal court power to review such laws.
Attorneys for O Callaghan argue the former lord mayor faces deportation as a political refugee claim and potential danger to his life. State Department counters he came to the country of his own accord and is not in danger.
O Callaghan, pursued by another country's authorities, arrived in Norfolk in 1920 and reportedly claimed to be Cork's lord mayor seeking to testify before a commission on Ireland. Later notes say he was a seaman on board a vessel, with evidence of clerical duties, and he was paroled by the department of bar to appear before the commission in Washington.
Francis Xh. Siss8o argues for a controlled assimilation based on immigration policy, noting how Europe and the United States shape flows through treaties and quotas. He warns against fears of invasion, cites WWI-era data, and calls for economic cooperation, banking reforms, and an Immigration Board to regulate arrivals and assimilation.
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