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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1936
Page
10
Social notices recount Protective Home Circle and WBA lodge events in Elyria Lorain and surrounding towns. Attendees include Vincent Lewis family and others. travel for condolences in Leipsic. entertainments at Cates school Elyria. birthday lines note Padraic Colum Diego Rivera and Maine author birthdays.
Mrs Langton plans to return to her home with Mr and Mrs Roberta visiting relatives there for about a month. Mrs Edgar Cooper fell Friday evening breaking her wrist and was treated at Elyria hospital then sent home. The M E church finance committee met Thursday evening and a prayer meeting followed. The church will present a Christmas program.
Ray Conway manager of the Oregon State Motor Association outlines twelve practical steps to reduce accidents. Proposals include clearer marking of dangerous highway sections, standardized warning signs, keep to the right signs, compulsory statewide car inspections, a uniform traffic code for pedestrians, and the creation of drivers schools. He argues updating traffic laws nationwide is essential to curb reckless driving and reduce fatalities and injuries.
A curatorial note describes a 1937 calendar edition as a staple of offices and homes, with art that ranges in color and subject while maintaining familiar motifs like moose, pink meadows, and snowy homesteads. The piece recalls the calendar's role in marking good and bad days and imbuing time with predictable rhythm, tracing roots to a supposed Third Century discovery in Colombia.
In two weeks the world approaches Christmas with optimism. Better times are reported as corporate dividends rise, wages and payrolls increase, unemployment falls to under 9 million, and farm income grows. Early shoppers gain stock certainty and ease the load on store and postal workers during the peak season.
The $70,000,000 railroads improvement program for 1937 signals broad industry revival and a wider business ripple beyond construction. It remains unclear how much stems from lower passenger rates versus future gains, but rail firms promise large investments that could spur other sectors. A New York magistrate freed eleven women arrested for poker, deeming it not a crime. observers note the era’s harsh view of bystanders in Spain and the fading power of speeches.
The Greek historian Herodotus records that by around 450 B C the Egyptian pharaohs taxed all tillers of the soil. Farmers paid 10 to 20 percent of receipts annually as taxes according to the ancient practice.
Bible Readings And Meditations urges followers to live as salt and light, cleansing the world with love and selfless action. It cites examples from employers aiding workers, a nurse nursing a neighbor, and a debutante sacrificing parties for Family Welfare Society, illustrating practical charity and service.
A snapshot mentions a surplus figure of over 300 million in 1933 Barcelona amid anarchist unrest. It notes Percy L. Crosby of McLean Virginia, creator of Skippy, born in Brooklyn, aged 45. Hervey Allen of Oxford Maryland, author of Anthony Adverse, born in Pittsburgh, aged 47. Burton J. Hendrick, born in New Haven, Connecticut, aged 65. Kenneth Roberts of Kennebunk is also listed.
Cardinal William Henry O Connell of Boston born at Lowell Massachusetts 77 years ago in a obituary notice.
The native is drawn to sensation and may act rashly chasing pleasure. Early life shows promise but later days appear cloudy with risk of mind becoming fixated on futile projects. Exercise great care to steady the mind and avoid adverse conditions.
Francis Lewis Lucille Sen ning Rebecca Rea and Loretta Lewis spent Thursday evening at Janet Baus home practicing a play to be presented at the Senior Feural Club entertainment in Medina on Thursday night December 10th. Berkley Roach Markley school principal led a moving picture show at Markley school Friday featuring Village Life in Switzerland Dress Parade and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Mrs C E McIntire and her Sunday school class of nineteen girls met Thursday at the M E church for an hour of practice.
A compact list notes 1765 Eli Whitney born, 1810 Elihu Burritt’s languages and death, 1828 Clinton Fisk life, 1829 Henry Timrod Charleston poet, 1832 George A. Henry war correspondent, 1839 Alexander J. Cassatt, 184S Joel Chandler Harris, plus Today in History items: 1493 Isabella town, 1840 Livingstone voyage, 1903 Langley failed flight, 1918 American troops at Coblenz, 1926 Coolidge budget note.
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