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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1924
Page
7
A columnist argues wasteful habits in personal finance and government spending undermine trust. The piece urges readers to compare frugality in daily life with tax and public expense oversight and ends by urging everyone to vote next Tuesday.
Boston trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor approve a plan to canvass 500000 members turning 18 this year and urge voter registration. They stress action over words and advocate participation at the primary as the real test of citizenship.
Lieut. Col. E F Norton argues Everest expedition offers risk for ideal gain while wartime purification is questioned. The piece criticizes his logic equating purification with killing, noting war as a death-dealing occupation and challenging the idea of moral justification.
A front page item recounts soldiers escaping camp by hiding on mule bellies and compares it to Ulysses escape under ram bellies from Polyphemus. A wind event blows hogs half a mile, witnessed by observers who imagine Pegasus.
Mrs. Edward P. Costigan leads a La Follette campaign women’s committee urging understanding of economic causes and effects to aid humanity. She praises women opposing secret factions and favors direct primaries, universal opportunities, and welfare over private profit to prevent future crises.
A nostalgic Ohio feature recalls notable dates from 1834 to 1919 including the first governor of the southwestern territory William Blount, Fulton’s Clermont voyage, Ghent treaty talks, and Canadian Liberal leadership. It also lists today’s birthdays of notable figures and references a city scene with sleep and local humor.
Tennessee voters in statewide primaries choose candidates for offices to be filled in November. United States Senator Shields and Governor Pear seek renomination amid intra party opposition. Democratic committees in New York and party groups meet to set nominating conventions.
The piece highlights Jim Armitage and companions in Mansfeld as a lively crowd known for eccentric humor. The men socialize in hotel lobbies, discuss horse racing all afternoon, and create a chaotic but entertaining scene in town.
A fragmented poem speaks of a dreaming Rose-red figure and shifting imagery. It mentions a rose fading quickly and questions about a smile to red Rose, with scattered lines about perfume and petals. The passage feels like a stray verse about transience and memory.
Miss Anne Morgan, first vice president of the Sots committee, awarded the Legion of Honor for her wartime efforts. She organized offices in shell holes with American women in Blerancourt, later donating Chateau Blenocourt as headquarters and engaging in charitable reform work while based abroad in New York.
A Grove Patterson column urges taxpayers to fund national campaigns with restraint. It notes the cost of the 1932 campaign, calls for voters to use judgment, and highlights progress of women in England taking pastoral roles amid social change.
Early model Buick four passenger coupe in fine shape offered by Elyria Buick Co. Terms are easy with a price of 1045 dollars.
A grey cat on Broadway Street in Akron followed the boulevard stop system at a street intersection. The cat paused before the painted word STOP on the curb, sat on the word go, and crossed when no traffic appeared, illustrating a safety lesson for feline pedestrians.
John K Shields seeks a U S senate renomination during today’s Tennessee primaries. The veteran jurist, now in his sixty seventh year, previously served as chief justice of the Tennessee supreme court and helped lead a free judiciary movement. His career began after a common school education and law admission in 1878, with a long partnership with his father in the Tennessee bar. He won election to the state Supreme Court in 1902 and to the U S Senate in 1912 to replace Robert Love Tailor.
At the month’s start Jefferson and Harrison counties display jail data with Harrison County reporting no prisoners and two transfers, while Jefferson Steubenville’s jail housed 82 inmates, alongside a note about a 1923 Buick Wood body touring car valued at 600 dollars.
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