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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1934
Page
6
Washington reports half a million crop reporters tally grim drought toll in three months. The July 1 USDA estimate shows the smallest corn crop since 1901, the smallest wheat crop since 1849, and the driest oats on record, with losses feared at $5,000,000 to $600,000,000 for farmers.
Rexford Tugwell called this one of agriculture’s worst years as drought and heat cut a drought resistant corn crop. Plantings reached 92,526,000 acres with potential harvest under 2.0 billion bushels, the smallest since 1894 aside from 1901.
A cloudy Sunday social scene brings Wr Obitts and family preaching at New London Baptist Church while many locals host or visit friends. Attendees include Harriet Mason, Arthur Mason, Mrs Sheldon, Mrs Campbell, Dorothy Manning, Jack and H B Cook, Vic and Mrs George Murphy, Mrs George Fink and daughter, Sally Willer, Robert Albert, Gus Mathes, Jennie and Josephine Alferio, Eldon Radcliffe, Elma Leningen, George Leninger, Elmer Tuttle, Jessie Chrysler Henry Lay Norman Dawes, and others from Cleveland Oberlin Mansfield and Sandusky areas.
Committees for the Fraternal Order of Eagles were appointed as the state meeting coincided with the National Session in Cincinnati. Officers at the meeting included Henry J. Berrodin Akron former president, Engel s M L Brown Springfield state secretary, Conrad H Brown Kansas City national organizer, and James Fitzgerald Niles state president. Resolutions urging funds to administer the old age pension law were approved.
In Ossining New York at Sing Sing a frail 29 year old woman died in the electric chair after hiring two men to murder her husband. The state exacted three lives for one and the condemned woman faced death with calm resolve despite pleading officials.
Gladys Dessler of Gallon filed a 5000 damage suit against Susan Long beauty shop operator alleging burns from an overheated permanent wave machine. The suit was filed in Bucyrus.
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