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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1934
Page
9
Seven Alabama coal companies kept militia under arms as 21,000 miners strike to press operators to obey an NRA wage increase order. Washington awaited action to relieve employers from wage differentials. Southern industrialists planned a campaign to sustain lower Northern wage disparities.
A meeting of Eaton Grange on April 11 drew twenty members to a freshly decorated hall. Members H R Ward and E Ilitiman spearheaded the decoration and papering, with the group noting a springlike, enthusiastic atmosphere created by the new decor.
The article records plans for an exchange table supplying seeds plants and bulbs beyond member needs. It lists committee members Mrs Elmer Fullmer Carl Wright Mrs H Lo Tite and Flton Hi plus reports from the Cemeter Club meeting and plans for winter daytime extension service lectures with topics like Cleaning and Pressing Sip Covers Upholstering and an evening session yet to be chosen. It also notes social news including visitors birthdays travel and upcoming local events at the Elyria area Grange andExtension activities and a nursing convention.
Tilghman E Houseman, 44, a meat cutter and father of six, surprised friends in Pottstown by collecting 3,200 signatures on petitions he circulated across nine counties as part of the Republican gubernatorial nomination race.
William K. Dunlap, an amateur photographer in Houston, offered pictures developed on eggs as East er gifts. The shells of hard boiled eggs bore transposed photographs of individuals and scenes, creating a unique keepsake novelty.
In Columbus Ohio on April 19 the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of Senator William H Herner of Norwalk on a charge of soliciting a $1500 bribe from the Ohio Funeral Directors Association via Elizabeth Pearce. The ruling, based on a technical motion, means the case cannot be retried and follows Judge Dana Reynolds who freed Herner after finding no prima facie conspiracy. Prosecutor Donald J Hawkine sought a petition in error from the lower court.
In Madison Connecticut dog warden George Edwards boasted a neatly trimmed beard until a pipe ruin changed his look. The mishap and its aftermath left him unable to greet longtime friends for several days while his barber repaired the trim.
The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce received a request from the United States Institute of History to join a competition to form a world government union. Turkish press calls the proposal a very strange suggestion.
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