Governor Cooper vetoes sixteen bills in Ohio session
Columbus April 26 Governor Myers Y Cooper killed sixteen bills passed by the eighty eighth general assembly and signed thirty one more leaving forty three to be acted on. Vetoed measures included the Bender bill regulating private employment agencies the Gillen bill allowing county commissioners to assume state highway assessments the Ackerman bill raising guards pay and the Emory bill targeting chain grocers and drug stores. Bills rejected created additional common pleas judges in Hamilton Mahoning Montgomery and Franklin counties and municipal courts in Conneaut and Xena. Other signed measures included the Sharp bill adjusting open season on squirrels and the Hadden bill for recording and copying official records.
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Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
Bender
Gillen
Ackerman
Emory
Common Pleas
Hamilton
Mahoning
Montgoméry
Franklin
Conneaut
Xema
Elyrian Pioneer Dies in Florida At 97
The elderly Elyrian pioneer George W. Standen died in DeFunia c Florida on Wednesday. He lived a long life reaching ninety seven years and six months. Standen was a respected member of the Elyria community and one of its pioneers. The cause of death was not stated in available text.
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de Funiac
Florida
Elyria
George W. Standen
North
Geo W Chamberlain Life and Career Summary
Geo W Chamberlain taught school at LaGrange at age 21, later studied law in Eltria under E G Johnson, admitted to the bar in 1887, practiced in Eltria with a six year Milwaukee period, served as state senator 1902 to 1906 and was president pro tem of the senate under lieutenant governor Harding. He led the Board of Education and the election board, lived at 238 Ninth Street with Mrs Chamberlain, and reared nine children. His hobbies were flowers and orchard work.
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Geo. W. Chamberlain
LaGrange
H.C. Wilcox
Lorain County
Gott
Cleveland
Chamberlain
Eltria
E. G. Johnson
Milwaukee
Senate
Harding
Board of Education
Election Board
238
Ninth Street
Farm relief split as House backs Hoover plan firmly
Washington report notes a sharp Democratic rift over farm relief as the House approves Hoover’s farm program 367 to 34 and sends it to the Senate. The vote strengthens administration forces, while the Senate debates debenture plans and considers a $500 million cooperative marketing bill amid party strain.
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Hoover
Senate
House
Washington
Check Worker Has Good Day In Wellington
A check worker spent a successful day in Wellington Thursday. Police chief E. J. Stankard was informed Friday. The fellow signed his name as Fisher and passed two bogus checks, each time making a small purchase and having the check cashed. A hearing on assessments for the Renouard Ditch in Wellington township was held at the Board of Commissioners office, with issues postponed for rehearing on May 34.
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Wellington
E. J. Stankard
Fisher
Renouard Ditch
Wellington Township
Board of Commissioners
Clevelanders Dominate Contest at Oberlin Orchestras
In Oberlin on April 26 four high school orchestras competed in state junior high and class contests. Cleveland schools dominated afternoon events with Patrick Henry, Anderson, Empire, and Jefferson taking top four, while Lodi, Sharon, Avon, and Wellington won in class C. Upcoming class A actions include West Technical high, West High, Glenville, John Adams, and Akron Hast. A Finney chapel concert tonight features winners from the four contests.
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Cleveland
Finney Chapel
Patrick Henry
Anderson, Empire
Thomas Jefferson
Lodi
Sharon
Avon
Wellington
Lorain County
Hi Sh
Oberlin
Berea
Crestline
Bluffton
West Technical High
West High
Lakewood
Central
Glenville
John Adams High
Akron Hast High School
Seventy-One Initiated Into Elyria Eagles Lodge
Seventy-one members were initiated into the Elyria Aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in honor of Edward J. Ryan, grand worthy president, who visited the lodge. The event emphasized the principles, services, and growth of the lodge.
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Elyria Aerie
Order of Eagles
Edward J. Ryan
Daring Robbery In Youngstown
In Youngstown Ohio April 26 daring bandits robbed the Weble Baking Company office and took $1000 from the safe. They stripped five employees including four company drivers, cut the phone wires, and escaped in the manager's automobile after making the manager come to the office. The robbers, described as youthful, washed fingerprints from the vault.
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Youngstown
Weble Baking Company
City Club Hears Masterful Address On Civilization
David Gibson of Cleveland lectured at Wurst's hall on Is Civilization Getting Anywhere. He traced energy, science, and religion, argued Darwin misunderstood, and noted early humans' tools, division of labor, and the home origin as civilization evolved. The talk touched on energy, wealth, and societal growth.
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David Gibson
Cleveland
Lorain Journal
City Club
Wurst’s Hall
Gibson
Darwin
Earth
Nature
Tie
Rockefeller
Ford
Mr. Gibson
Twister damages Lorain County areas with funnel threat
A freak twister damaged southeastern Lorain County along the Valley City Belden road. William Mallett’s house lost a wall and was lifted from its foundation while Henry Stick’s home suffered window loss and ruined furnishings. Garages along the Valley City to Belden road were destroyed as trees uprooted. Oberlin and Indian Hollow road areas flooded. walnut-sized hail reported. Akron district later reported damage as the storm moved east. No damage in Elyria.
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Lorain County
Valley City
Belden
William Mallett
Henry Stick
Oberlin
Indian Hollow
Akron
Elyria
South Georgia Swept By Storm
Tornado like winds swept Central Georgia towns and northwest South Carolina areas causing at least 26 deaths and 250 injuries. Cochran Chester Metter Antioch Dexter Enoree Pelzer among hard hit communities with multiple fatalities and dozens injured. Continued on Page 2.
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Dexter
Vicinity
Enoree
S. C
Pelzer
Georgia
Nature Giving Man Fierce Battle
In a broad blizzard sweep from the west to the Mississippi valley, man and machine fought nature. Workmen reinforced dikes along the Mississippi and repaired Chicago sea walls against Lake Michigan, while crews tried to restore telephones and electric lines to isolated towns in Colorado and Wyoming. Crippled railroad service remained the outside contact with Cheyenne as wires were down and power cut to prevent electrocution. A Wyoming snow belt reported severe stock losses and one death, sheep herder George Ross near Thermopolis. Many motorists faced stalled highways and exposure as crews moved into the storm region from Ogden, Denver and Omaha.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Man
Mississippi River
Lake Michigan
Colorado
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
George Ross
Thermopolis
Ogden
Utah
Denver
Omaha
Tornadoes Blizzards and Floods Hit Central U S
United Press reports severe storms across a large portion of the country with at least 26 dead and 250 injured in central Georgia and northwestern South Carolina after earlier week storms in Texas Arkansas and Missouri. Wyoming Colorado isolated by blizzards. One rancher frozen to death. River flooding threatens towns along the Mississippi and Missouri. Crumbling dikes near Quincy Canton and Hannibal Mo risk more inundation. Lake Michigan waves endanger lakefront areas north of Chicago. One man rescued after his boat capsized.
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United Press
United States
Georgia
South Carolina
Texas
Arkansas
Mississippi
Misssouri
Wyoming
Colorado
Aftrail
Iowa
Illinois
Missouri
Quincey
Canton
Hannibal
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Coast Guard
Small cyclone strikes Pittsfield barns injure few
A cyclone passed over Pittsfield at 4 p m Thursday destroying a Harris farm barn valued at ten thousand dollars. William Harris, 60, was in the barn but escaped unharmed as horses and cattle fled. Out-buildings were damaged and a shed roof blown away. This is the Harris farm's second storm disaster after a previous tornado wrecked the entire complex.
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Pittsfield
Willoughby Harris
William Harris
Harris Farm
Woman Fined For Violating Peddler's Law
Freda Guzenterman of West Street was arraigned for peddling fish without a license. Found guilty in police court, Mayor Hewitt fined her five dollars plus costs and suspended the fine pending cessation of peddling. She was arrested while peddling early today after prior warnings to obtain a license.
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Freda Guzenterman
West St
Oberlin Grad Robert Hutchins Named Chicago President
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Oberlin alum and Yale Law School dean, will become the youngest major American university president at the University of Chicago July 1. Born in Brooklyn, he served in the ambulance corps during WWI and earned degrees from Yale and Oberlin before joining academia.
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Chicago
Robert Maynard Hutchins
New England
Law School
Yale
University of Chicago
Hutchin
Harold H. Swift
University
Max Mason
Division of Natural Sciences
Rockefeller Foundation
William Rainey Harper
Harper
Brooklyn
Oberlin Academy
United States Ambulance Corps
Teacher Injured by Automobile in Elyria
Elyria High School teacher Miss Flossie Klopfenstine was hit by a vehicle at a cross street and taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital with a fractured rib and abrasions to the knee wrist and left eye. Police know the driver's identity but not their name.
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Elyria
Flossie Klopfenstine
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Miss Klopfenstine
Police issue 25 traffic tickets Thursday
Twenty five red tags were given out by police Thursday for traffic violations, a slight increase over the usual twenty tickets in a day. Most violations were cars without sufficient lights.
Lorain Prohibition Raids Nab Liquor Rings And Home Brew
State Prohibition Agents and the Lorain County Sheriff raided six alleged liquor rings in Elyria Grafton Eaton and the Slovenian National Home in Lorain finding six thousand bottles of home brew five forty gallon crocks of brew three barrels of wine and several quarts of liquor. principal raid on the Slovenian Home yielded arrests of John Kotnik and Joseph Millek with officers seizing the stock and confiscating the liquor. continuous coverage continues on page 13.
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Lorain County
John C. Cole
Steubenville
Geo. A. Baynahem
Columbus
Clarence BE. Adams
Pearl Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Lorain
Elyria
Grafton
Eaton
Menee
Cole
John Kotnik
East Thirty-second Street
Kotnik
Joseph Millek
Livingston Avenue
Mrs Cheney Injured In Park Avenue Crash
Mrs Harvey G Cheney of 155 Denison avenue was injured when the auto she rode in with Mrs R W Hancock of 134 Denison avenue was struck by a car driven by Charles Sherrard of La Grange road. The crash occurred on Park avenue near Eastern Heights boulevard. Mrs Cheney was taken to Elyria Clinic with injuries not yet determined.
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Harvey G. Cheney
Denison Avenue
R. W. Hancock
Charles Sherrard
la Grange Road
Cheney
Elyria Clinic
Hancock
Park Avenue
Sherrard
Eastern Heights Boulevard
Team Captains to Meet Tonight in Legion Drive Dinner
Lawrence Webber, general chairman of the American Legion Home drive, hosts a dinner at the Spring Valley club house for campaign captains this evening. Plans for the drive will be outlined at the event.
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Lawrence Webber
American Legion
Spring Valley Club House
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Hadden
Heflin
Alabama
Brockton
Mass
Hoover Steamroller
Rep. Jones
Friends of the Bil
Federal Farm Board of Sevior
Secretary of Agriculture
Ohio
Fifth City Orchestras
Blufton High School
Orchesstra
Twoter
South Georgia
U.S
Oberlin Grad
UNI
Oberlin, Q
Oberlin College
Hutchins
William James Hutchins
Oberlin Graduate School of Theology
Oberlin’ Academy
Dane
H.C. Cheney
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