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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
4
In Ann Arbor two centenarians died within minutes of each other, marking a rare sequence in the town hall death roll as the scene notes a pair of oldest residents passing away. The obituaries reflect a city accustomed to long lives amid municipal life.
The Chamber of Commerce announced Elyria's Fire Prevention Week report sent to the National Fire Protection Association as the city bids for state and national honors in the fire prevention contest. The 15 city organizations participated, including the American Legion and Boy Scouts, with 15 factory inspections, 255 stores, 47 public buildings, and 2138 homes checked, plus 1500 high school students addressed by Fire Chief Bates.
Seven million years ago a tropical jungle in Piedmont, SD sank beneath the sea. Men with picks uncover stone fragments of petrified trees, cypress logs and other vegetation amid debris over nearly 30 acres. Sandstone and limestone formed atop the forest as strata emerged to the surface.
Farmers and stockmen learned this summer the extent of the ancient forest as petrified logs emerge from debris. The wood now appears in bright colors from differing fiber compounds and even lichen markings remain, while decay patterns persist, a feature geologists note as unusual in petrified woods.
A census bureau preliminary tabulation shows U S match production down in 1929 with total shipped value at 19 490 000 dollars, down 21 6 percent from 1927. Nineteen firms operated in 1929 paying 3 983 000 in wages, a 36 percent drop from 1927 when wages were 4 130 988.
Hoosier Ponzi figure Alpha Holiday, dubbed the Hoosier Ponzi, received three concurrent sentences for swindling victims out of about 500000 dollars. One term runs one to three years, the other two one to five years. Only 15000 dollars was recovered from the scheme. Holaday surrendered after two years on the run, mistaken by officers to be wanted only for wire desertion.
A Geneva construction program employing about 125 men has begun to ease unemployment. Additional work valued at roughly $300,000 may start soon, boosting local employment and economic activity.
The Stage Coach Tavern in Lawrenceville, once hosting Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Ulysses S. Grant, and others, is torn down for a modern building. It served as a key Underground Railroad stop, sheltering runaway slaves before the Civil War, and stood as Lawrenceville’s link between a 200 resident settlement and today. Built around 1825 by John C. Rees, the tavern later became a dueling house before passing to the Rai heirs.
Isaac Knoe, a Civil War veteran, purchased the item years ago and kept it in his possession until a few years ago.
Franklin Pa. Swedish colonists and not William Penn were the first to settle in Pennsylvania, says C Hale Sipe Butler historian and attorney. In 1638 before Penn was born a party from Gustavus Adolphus Lion of the North arrived in the future Pennsylvanian region. The Swedes sailed on the Talmar Nyckle and the Grip.
A red bull missing for a month was found dead inside a straw stack near Stillwater Minnesota. The animal crawled into a hole and when it moved around a support was dislodged, causing the stack to suffocate the bull.
Turkish women may win seats in the next national assembly, with plans to allow them to stand as candidates in the following year's general elections. The move comes as reforms roll out from the Harem era toward broader political participation.
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