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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1936
Page
4
President Roosevelt urged peace as the nation weighs profits versus peace at Chautauqua New York. He stressed keeping business from funding war, urging public support for peace, cautious governance, and a stronger good neighbor policy among the 21 American republics.
Secretary Morgenthau reports no new taxes needed next Congress, sparking taxpayer optimism but also doubt due to past promises. Senators Harrison and Morgenthau suggest possible tax law revisions, yet offer no specifics. Taxpayers await concrete lists of which taxes might change before the election.
Postmaster General Farley called for an examination of West Point postmaster applicants, a move met with Army officer resistance who fear a tradition at the United States Military Academy may be challenged. Central figure Grace Harrington has served as West Point postmistress since 1927, tracing kinship to a Revolutionary War soldier and a relative who led as postmistress for decades.
Army officers protest Miss Harrington as an Army woman chosen for the West Point post. They fear a non-Service successor and question if a political handicap is at play. The flap centers on Civil Service rules and an examination timed before the order. The piece questions whether Farley era politics would spread nationwide.
Today’s items list anniversaries of figures such as Edward Preble Napoleon Bonaparte Sir Walter Scott and T E Lawrence with birth and death dates. It notes births in Philadelphia Kalamazoo and Newark plus a long roster of historical milestones and a horoscope predicting peaceful intuition and potential progress for the day.
Church notice reports August 16 services at Lake Avenue Community Church with Bible School at 9:30 and preaching at 10:45 led by Kermit Leiby and Rev. Fiarl R. Peck. Grange section covers election of delegates for State Grange convention, a planned September flower show, Juvenile Grange wiener roast August 20, and no meeting for Lake Avenue Woman's Association August 19. Social notes mention local visits and moving plans.
Alaska figure Don Skuse returned and said he was stopped by police at Broadway and Fifth Avenue in New York. Officers spotted his Alaska license plates and questioned him about the territory.
Residents of San Mateo were given the thrill of their lives as a team of horses from William Stocker stables ran away on El Camino Real. It took three hours to overtake the runaway team.
A vivid 1920s portrait of New York culture consisting of encounters with Ziegfeld, Chaplin, Dreiser, Dillon and many icons. The prose strings together salons, parties, and daily observations from McIntyre as he recalls meetings with divas, writers, actors, businessmen, and socialites across cities and venues, hinting at art, gossip, and current events of the era.
In a luncheon discussion two businessmen weigh price versus volume. One argues higher prices boost profits. the other notes profits rise with volume even at lower margins. Elasticity of demand for electricity and lines of business shape whether lowering prices increases overall profits or not.
A reader asks the author to respond through the newspaper, outlining where to send letters or how to contact for reply. The inquiry notes the publication as the channel for dialogue and invites a published reply in a future issue.
A collage of humorous 1930s cultural scenes. Hearst listening to a Roosevelt speech by radio at Dobbie's, H T Webster's Florida gag, Normandy fields seen from a boat to Paris, Sell’s, Rube Goldberg’s home statuary, Ring Lardner in a dawn harmonizing moment, Frank Ward O Malley lamenting Bronx orange juice, all amid a McNaught Syndicate copyright note from 1936.
New York economist Roger Babson predicts that within 20 years half of Americans will live in automobile trailers. He cites rising trailer use as a reason home building stays about 380 percent of normal. The Mar of Time survey estimates nearly a half million trailers in use.
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