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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1927
Page
4
The Rialto in the city presents a Sunmmcert program featuring the Oriental Surprise Six Mandarins with songs and dances from Chi. Dick Sexton and Tudor Dunbar headline the revue in a billed acts package that the Free Press lauds for comedy and song.
A Parisian style vaudeville show features Margie Mansell a former Elyria girl with a lively tap number and new songs by James and Bernie Lester. Max and Smalley headline as a clever musician duo with a two reel comedy and a one reel Fox News Weekly. Matinees at 2 30 p m and evening shows at 7 and 8 45 p m.
April reports list numerous Oberlin residents hosting and visiting relatives from Elyria Cleveland Amherst and Birmingham over the weekend and Easter. Families including Dunn Searles Bates Altmister Unger Kelble Gleisner Walker and Gegenheimer are mentioned along with a W C T U meeting and an Odd Fellows social in Oberlin.
In Cleveland on April 23 a man named Hersch, 30, died after being shot while resisting a holdup by three men who demanded his surrender. He fell after trying to run as the revolver fired, with the incident occurring as he returned from work for the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. His death followed hours later in a hospital. reports note the three attackers issued the command to halt and Hersch failed to comply.
Fire of unknown origin swept the six story Commodore apartments in Cleveland Ohio injuring four people. Two firefighters were overcome by smoke and five residents were rescued as more than 300 occupants fled to the street. Loss was estimated at 25000 dollars.
Rochester gossip page records visits by Mr S B Marvin and family to Mrs Martha Stebbing and Mr Frank Herendeen in Painesville. Mrs J T Flanagan of Wellington stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs Chas Beardsley. Master Alvin Gaviss's visit noted.
The item lists several visitors to the home of G. W. Smith including Amos Darby and family, C. J. Blasell, Harry Smith, Frank Chase and families from Cleveland and Akron, with mentions of Wellington relatives. A Bristol University cancer study reports a new lead injection treatment with hopeful results though no cure claimed, tracing to Blair Bell at Liverpool University. The Sydney street railways operate 162 miles.
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