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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
3
The piece discusses the U S housing crisis with statistics from S W Straus Co on seven months of 1920. It notes a low share of building for homes, rising rents, and a looming supply demand imbalance. It urges legislative action and broad study of capital labor and materials to boost residential construction, warning the period will require years to rebalance.
Treasury figures show the fiscal year ended with higher national debt than before World War I. The piece discusses debt per capita, wartime waste risk, and the role of banks in financing buyers. It notes credit strain as a factor, inefficient transport, and lost freight on sidings while rail service improves.
Boynton was nominated for county treasurer, X Peek for sheriff, Ww. H. Tucker for recorder, N. TD. Gates for coroner, and Lucius Hulburd for infirmary director. The population of Elyria was not stated in readable text.
A man described as Martin is alleged to have forcibly entered the Savera home and assaulted Mrs Sauers, who is near to childbirth. She regained consciousness and recounted Monday’s events after being drugged. the suspect was reportedly seen in Nicholasville, sending a posse to pursue him.
The item lists 1880 population figures for Oberlin and Elyria with totals and dwelling counts, notes a game between the Eagles and Clippers at the fair ground with 10 cent admission, and mentions Seth Griffin's horse. It references the fair at the grounds, a trotting purse of 125 dollars, and ends with a line about the Chroniclé-Télegram Want Ads.
Word arrived that George Schieverstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schieverstein of Blyria Avenue, was drowned in Lake Superior on Tuesday. He had been a sailor aboard a steamship that sailed from Lorain weeks earlier. The vessel was near Sault Ste. Marie when the accident occurred, and it is unclear whether heart failure caused his fall.
The text reports a body recovered after a maritime incident and mentions a planned arrival in Amherst later in the week. It also records a real estate transfer: H. T. West to I. B. McViethe for tract 6, lot 2 in Huntington Township, priced at $1425.
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