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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1924
Page
12
An old essay recalls how early settlers sourced cloth and shoes. Spinners and weavers were scarce and garments wore fast. families reused clothing, improvised with butternuts and buckskin, and often waited months for shipments from the East. Leather was scarce and shoemakers few, prompting rough, practical solutions amid harsh winters.
An investigation opened in Mexico City regarding an erroneous telegram claiming Samuel Gomieris died at San Nicolas. General Gomez conducted the probe after the message was sent, amid doubt over its accuracy.
Reports from Belgrade, Constantinople, Madrid, and Torino describe unrest, damage, and foreign affairs developments. An Albanian uprising gains strength, a mayoral home is destroyed, and Japan’s naval activity and sun elevation are noted amid international responses.
A fragment describes a soldier recounting severe stomach attacks and morphine injections during service. It claims Mayr’s Wonder in Remedy 7 cured him, enabling return to artillery work and perfect health per government physicians. The text touts a harsh remedy removing intestinal mucus and reducing inflammation as a universal cure, with a vague promised one dose returns value.
Elyrians face two civil actions as the Riverview Amusement Co is defendant in a $315.17 note suit claimed by the Cleveland News. H C Ayers sues Spero Valassis Elyria for $3,000 on a note alleged to have been given by Valassis. A truck strike injuries to Albert Kay as Vogler drayman drove from an alley near Elyria Bank building at 12:30. Kay sustained bruises and torn clothing.
Market bulletin lists Cleveland produce including butter prices 47 1-2 and 1-2, prints 48 1-2 and 1-2, various firsts totaling 48 1-9 47 1-2, and packing 2728. Fresh items like iiggs-Fresh 60, Nut 23, Oleo, high grade animal oils 27-98, and lower grades 20-21. Cheese York State 24-96, poultry figures for fowls 22-23, roosters 16, springers 20-24, ducks 20-22, turkeys 30, geese 29-23, apples 140-150 by the ton, dried Navy Te, cabbage 20-22 per ton, potatoes 163-175 a sack, tomatoes 125-150 a basket, onions 150-175 per cwt.
In Lorain on December 12 the high school senior debate affirmed the Great Lakes to Ocean Waterway project. Affirmative team members were Paul Newsome and Paul Olmutz, while the opposing side featured Leland Mills and Ralph Hing.
Mt. Vernon Ohio December 12 Truman Davidson 76 longtime horse drawn buggy driver to traveling salesmen across Ohio was found dead in bed this morning. He was widely known to thousands of salesmen by the nickname Truman due to their riding in his.exh.
The passage lists J F Burke Glade Thomas and R B Lersech as picks for a contest chosen by Dr Backus. It describes a new four story brick hotel with 40 rooms including a lobby palm garden dining hall and barred basement areas. The hotel features outside guest rooms with large air shafts and marble finishes and is set to open soon after the new year in Elyria's business district. Reconstruction work is by B J Nelsinger.
A veteran describes enlistment in Company B of the Fifty third Massachusetts, service in Missouri, and payments of $110 at discharge. He mentions Captain Cornell and memories of Westvale and Orange and South Vernon Vermont, with details fading as he recounts the later war period.
A wartime nurse recounts service in the U S Navy after Civil War duty in Key West. She recalls a Quebec landing when a royal party boarded that night, defying orders to go ashore with Peter Johnson, a Dane, and later married him. The told memory ends with a striking image of Queen Victoria.
A vintage advertisement claims Edna Wallace Hopper endorses two powders available nationwide through druggists and toilet counters. It touts a heavy cold cream powder in a square box for $1.00 and a light fluffy powder in a round box for 60 cents, promising samples by mail.
A woman claimed to be Queen Victoria and sought protection from Mrs. Johnson in a street scene. She revealed five years and nine months of service as a male sailor, warned of a royal procession, and allegedly sent Mrs. Johnson to a convent in Quebec. Her mind wandered after injuries and time in hospital and poor farm, ending with a cryptic note about an adopted brother Tom Hill.
Dr M A Abbe is listed as a licensed chiropractor with hours from 9 to 11 am and 1 to 6 pm. Evening appointments are available. Address provided is 308 Elyria Savings & Trust Blog with office phone 2194.
A widow recounts Civil War service and injuries, noting a bullet wound and lost correspondence. The Red Cross certifies Tom Hill of Company B Fifty-third Massachusetts. A request is sent to J Brainard Hall for the Massachusetts Adjutant General and Daughter of Veterans at a convent.
Authorities pursue information from Rock Cross and Tewksbury Hospital along with several organizations to locate a missing woman. The inquiry seeks any details that could identify her or her whereabouts.
Carek Flowlet advertises quality price and service for flowers shipped by wire to all parts of the world within a few hours.
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