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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1932
Page
11
J Clare George notes newspaper details in Elyria Ohio. Second class post, 12 cents weekly carrier, 3 dollars yearly in state, 4 dollars elsewhere. Rates apply daily outside Elyria in Lorain counties. Advertising reps listed in Chicago New York Detroit.
The state let the Route Twenty widening project to an Elyria firm. When finished the highway will be about 40 feet wide from Cleveland to Elyria with a 30 foot main pavement and five foot berms on each side. Federal Highway Twenty Association and local officials aided in placing the project on the state program. Lorain County cooperated, and work is to be rushed to completion.
The article notes a shift from 200 foot limits to modern deep sea diving suits allowing divers to reach 525 feet. It cites Hooper’s Cape Horn salvage at 204 feet and a 1925 German dive to 460 feet, with later depths. It mentions Italian efforts at 400 feet off the French coast seeking 5 million dollars in gold and silver from the liner Egypt sunk in 1922. It envisions future generations extracting wealth from sunken Spanish galleons.
Gilbert T Hodges president of the Advertising Federation of America presents a study of 120 firms over 17 years. Sixty increased advertising, tripling profits and quadrupling net assets while others who cut back declined. The piece argues bold advertising pays even in hard times.
A collection of short moral quips and anecdotes appears, featuring quotes from Powell Buxton and Irving, mixed with humorous lines about work and a Kansas man at the Grand Canyon. The prose bleeds into old timey reflections on virtue, labor, and life’s burdens, ending with a poem about bread as a metaphor for sorrow and resilience.
Today in history and birthdays list notable figures born on this date. Samuel Doak William Clark Richard Henry Dana Maria Mitchell Hermas Welville Robert Todd Lincoln Walter Launt Palmer are named with birth and death details, alongside milestones like Columbus third voyage South America and Colorado statehood.
A fragmentary news page bundles a joking exchange about kissing, a quip about the prohibition era, and brief notices. It mentions U.S. Senator Sasson of South Carolina born 88 years ago in Lynchburg and poetess Aline Kilmer as widow Joyce Kilmer, highlighting era trivia and cultural references.
Born at Norfolk and Beverly 44 years ago are Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange and 44-year Waldo? Morris Hillquit, a New York Socialist leader born in Latvia. Nathan Krass of New York, a 53-year-old Russian-born clergyman, is also noted along with Ernest T. Weir, a 57-year-old West Virginia steel magnate born in Pittsburgh. Today brings a horoscope stressing passion and risk in finance if pride and vanity overtake sober judgment.
Elpha Taxpayer writes that the mayor's budget fails to address 1932 to 1938 economic realities. She urges the City Council to exercise final control over appropriations, amend ordinances, and enact decisive economies without veto delays. She notes August was once Sextilis.
Maurice Masthke of Cleveland, veteran county Republican leader and former GOP national committeeman, calls the indictment charging him with aiding and abetting embezzlement of 140000 from Cuyahoga County treasury untrue and malicious. Six others were indicted in connection with a broader thrift theft totaling 477000 from the county treasury.
Tron slab marks obscure grave of Marcus Moeller Thrane in Lakeview Cemetery Eau Claire Wisconsin. Thrane preached equality for workers eighty years ago and was imprisoned in Oslo for his 1845 revolutions. He edited newspapers in America before dying at his son Arthur Thrane's home. Norway later raised a monument at Oslo funded by popular subscription.
Two Paris taxi drivers invent a floating seat that cushions shocks and blows, keeping riders from being pitched through windshields. Emmanuel Bellelli proposes a racing shell style mechanism that rocks the rider while the car absorbs impacts. He hopes the police prefecture will test the design and envisions an amphibian car for water and road. Masaryk recalls a life of poverty shaping practical insight.
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