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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1928
Page
6
Fragmentary radio schedule note mentions Columbia System Newark station at 422 meters and 710 kilocycles with a 60 pm timeslot. References WADC and Paramount orchestra in a brief listing of stations and programs.
AMHERST AMHERST, Aus. 28 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grugel celebrate with family in Amherst. Katherine, Leonard, Norman, Minnie, Luke, Wilam Resse, and Walter Schmitz are listed among local relations. Mrs Viola Reinhard, Ruth Grusel, and Walter Schmitz motored to Cedar Point Sunday. Yourg lass family welcome a son Sunday. Martha Coverdale wedding plans noted. Local reunions announced including Neiding and Gauman families with dinners and picnics at Crystal Gardens and Vermilion on the Lake. Church groups schedule meetings. several residents back to work after visits. Roundups and cattle notes reference 1915 to 1927 beef prices and Argentina trade, plus German car and French airfield notes.
Radio schedule lists Cleveland stations with Eastern Time, noting baseball scores, music programs, and featured shows. NBC networks WB AF and WGY are referenced with specific program times, artists, and orchestras, plus a literary item The Series at Farm by Dr. Harry W. Laide.
In El Paso and across the southwest wild horses face mass slaughter as beef prices rise. Range grass is scarce, forcing ranchers to plan extermination through reduction plants. A 100 mile route from Hillsboro to El Paso, called the Journey of Death, bears horses to the slaughterhouse amid water shortages and disease.
Warne county marks ten years of Michigan potato seed adoption with 30 carloads imported. G A Dustman reports growing spraying use and power machinery to combat disease and insects. Demonstration on Ramsy er farm in 1927 showed 145 bushels per acre gain. Over 35 large sprayers purchased locally for 1928. Power sprayers now used by five of six vocational agricultural departments.
London’s annual health report shows birth numbers declining since 1922 while population sits near four and a half million. It projects under current trends that those under 15 will drop below 20 percent of the total after the next census, with 1927 births at 723,263 down from the prior year. Other notes mention Paris relief payments and seven prospectors in Alaska seeking gold via aerial transport.
At Camp Perry Aug 28 service teams and Cuban rifle squads begin ranges and target practice as the small arms firing school runs three days of dry shooting then actual firing. Junior rifle matches draw 26 boys and 19 girls, skeet ranges open tomorrow, and police teams from major cities attend the special course. Mrs Young of Portland is among early women reporting for small bore rifle events and pistol matches.
In San Francisco Mickey Walker world middleweight champion knocked out Armand Emanuel in the seventh round of a scheduled nineteen round bout. Walker dominated with jabs and body blows after a slow start, a hard right to the jaw sent Emanuel down for the count. Ace Hudkins challenged the winner after the bout, which was non-title.
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