Christmas Fire Safety Precautions Urged by State Fire Marshal
State Fire Marshal Frank G. Henry urges strict Christmas fire safety measures to prevent fires this year. Notes include securing the tree away from heat sources, inspecting lighting, using nonflammable decorations, never leaving lit trees unattended, keeping a extinguisher or water handy, discouraging smoking near decorations, disposing of wrappings promptly, and removing the tree before it dries out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank G. Henry
Mr. Henry
Concentration and Mind Power in Learning
The piece urges steady mental occupation to avoid unwholesome thoughts and build character. It compares concentrated effort to a hydraulic stream, cites Isaac Newton as an example, and argues that consistent, methodical work elevates modest talents into powerful minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Newton
Juvenile crime debate echoes across warnings and wit
The piece cites the FBI's rise in youthful criminals and the Crime Prevention Bureau's link to poverty while the NEA denies moral decline. It notes that statistics may mislead and calls for broad, multi angle studies. A South American nation hires a U.S. professor to fix finances and hints at export laws. It includes quips on medical costs patient choice, women's wages, a brainy machine, divorce costs amid hard times, and a pun on business mergers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Bureau of Investigation
Crime Prevention Bureau
National Education Association
The Silent Observer and Jumble of Daily Snippets
A collage of quips, jokes, birthdays, and notes from an old newspaper page. It mixes puns about travel and mountains with family humor, a car joke, street scene anecdotes, a few historical dates, and today’s horoscopes plus a brief Broadway-style caption.
TODAY IN HISTORY ANNIVERSARIES AND EVENTS
Historic figures honored include 1503 Michel de Nostradamus French physician and astrologist born. 1546 Tycho Brahe Danish astronomer born. 1730 Jonas Clark Congregational minister Lexington MA born. 1739 Pierre Samuel du Pont French statesman founder of powder industry born. 1794 Israel Coe Connecticut dross maker born. 1795 John B Jervis American engineer born. 1782 British evacuate Charleston and Gen Francis Marion disbands his brigade.
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Michael de Nostradamus
Tycho Brahe
Jonas Lark
Lexington
Mass
Newton
Pierre Samuel du Pont
Paris
Delaware
Israel Coe
Connecticut
Goshen
Conn
Waterbury
John B. Jervis
Huntington
N. Y
Rome
Oberlin College Students Earn Over Seventy Thousand Dollars
Oberlin College students contributed more than $70,000 to help pay their college expenses during the last year. Among 420 men enrolled, 350 worked to support some portion of their costs during the school year or vacation, while only 70 did not work at all.
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Oberlin College
Prospects Brighten for Green Line Strike Settlement
45 years ago Elyria Telegram reports a brighter outlook for an early Green Line strike settlement. Local merchants' committee expects success to end the walkout that has left 300 workers idle and disrupted factories and transit. Officials reportedly provide favorable updates as three sites are under consideration for a five-county tuberculosis hospital, per County Commissioner remarks.
Oberlin Debaters Propose Cap on Incomes and Inheritances
Four Oberlin College students spoke at Elyria Rotary to urge a law banning gifts or inheritances above 50000 and annual incomes over 50000. Two peers argued the plan’s flaws citing higher taxes and reduced private philanthropy, while a Rotary president chaired the session.
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Plan
Thuy
FR. Revard
Rotary Club
Kiwanis elects Jim Armitage president for next year
The Kiwanis Club today elected Jim Armitage as its president for next year. Officers named include George H. Chamberlain as immediate past president CM Williams as vice president EL 47 Rice as treasurer and Walter H Watts as district trustee. The Falcon Motors Corp plans a sharp rise in production to 35000 cars next year. From April 1 to September 30 this year it produced and shipped about 10000 cars. Mutt the city alligator found dead today in the basement of Fire Station Number Three after being kept at Ely Park each summer.
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Kiwanis Club
Jim Armitage
George H. Chamberlain
CM. Williams
Rice
Walter H. Watts
Falcon Motors Corporation
Mutt
Cily
Ely Park
Coroner Plans Move Of Springfield Mystery Room
Greene County coroner Dr. Murray G. Stove who relinquished office this month plans to move the contents of his famed mystery room at the rear of his offices in Springfield. The room includes five ledgers of coroner cases, a life mask of bandit Jake Fleagle, death bullets, poisons, revolvers, knives, and envelopes with deceased possessions, plus Dr. Stone's revolver camera and notebook. Dr. Charles George will succeed him as coroner under Missouri law.
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Springfield
Murray G. Stove
Greene County
Jake Fleagle
Local Notes And Visits Highlight La Grange Briefs
Miss Eleanor Wigert spent time with relatives in Cleveland while Ray Jump from Boston visited Rev Jump and family. Mrs Otto Miller returned from Elyria Memorial Hospital and Bert Broele of Cleveland stayed with Henry Wigert’s family. Several locals attended a Wellington dance and a move to Elyria for Kenneth Solcomh. Installation of Lyn don Chapter O E S officers featured Sara Binder of Wellington and Hazel Pierce of Wellington with Irma Guyeska of Grafton at the piano.
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LA Grange
Eleanor Wigert
Cleveland
Wilk Hastings
Jegnie Crosier
Elyria
Keith Rawson
Ray Jump
Boston
Jump
Otto Miller
Bert Broele
Tatter
Henry Wigert
Charles Adams
Ruth
Karl Kolinski
Prolife
aAlbert B. Archer
Grance
Springfield
Charles Foster
Amelia Adams
Ruth Adams
Lewis Adams
Wellington
Kenneth S[olcomh
Elyvia
Lyndon Chapter O. FE
Sara Binder
Grande Marshall
Hazel Pierce
Kate Starry Grand
Irma Guyeska
Grafton
China
Frances Woodruff
Virgil Jump
Charlotte Wilcox
Harry Swartz
Florence Nichols
Doris Sheldon
Nellie Lehman
Margaret Bennett
Marshall
Elizabeth Stevens
Laura Gott
Hazel Adams
Ada
Leola Wilcox
Stella Dawson
Esther
Gertrude Jump
Martha
Pauline Sooy
Electa
Violet Swartz
Treva Hanmer
Sentinel
Will F. Hastings
Esther Wolcott
Lucille Rawson
Hazel Miner
Wilhelmina Kolinski
Bobby Woodruff
Santa Claus
Farming leads list of parents occupations in Oklahoma study
A survey of 6151 students shows farmers as the top parent occupation at 709, followed by merchants 399, goal and old men 279, physicians 256, lawyers 239, salesmen 195, railroad men 159 and government employees 146. The text also notes wartime sacrifice and includes church mission history and a list of Masonic officers and Christmas events.
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Manny Norman
Okla
University of Oklahoma
Whoney
Christmas Party Hosts At Baptist Church Event
Mr and Mrs Judsnwr Spicer welcomed members of the AWLW class of the Baptist church to a Christmas party on Friday evening. Gifts were exchanged. Mr and Mrs Vernon Rundte and Jamie were weekend guests of friends in Columbia.
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M.E Sunday School
Andrew Rawson
Baptist Sunday School
Ford Hastings
Charles Adams
Judsnwr Spicer Wall
Class of the Baptist Church
Vernon Rundte
Jamie
Columbia
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Chronicle-Telegram
Moreau
Second Street
Ohio
Lerals County Printing & Publishing Company
A.C Mudnutt
Clare George
ERI
Forstan
John W Cullen Company
Chicago
Michigan Ave
Fifth Ave
Detroit
General Motors
Nashville Banner
Committee On
The
New York Sun
Springfield (Mass
Ashland Daily Independent
Miami Daily’ News
Asbury Park Evening Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Howe
Lous McHenry How
Saratoga Springs
New York Herald
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt Handwagon Ag
Washington
Teho Be
Enklin
King Ay
Fall River
Mowe
M. Tenon
Jessly Bur
Pap
Tenver
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Countries
Dead Sea
Clarabelle
Jim
Mangme
Fire Department
George Washington
Mount Vernon
Alabama
Roald Amundsen
Norway
South Pole
Tonay
George 5S. Gibbs
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Harlan
Iowa
James WH. Doolittle
St. Laws
Alameda
Calif
Jane Cowl
Samart J. Barnett
University of California
Los Angeles
Woodson County
Kansas
Frenk A McElwain
St. Paulit
Warsaw
N. F
David §. Hill
New York
Nashville
Tenn
Joseph Levinne
Russia
Prince Albert Duke of York
King George of England
Charleston
8. C
Francis Marion
the Swamp Fox
Sallys
Elytia
Oberlin
Elyria Rotary Club
Elks’ Club
Oberlin Forensic Union
Theodore Ropp
Russell Nya
Allen Passen
David Morris
William E. Utterback
Forensic Union
Jenin
Christ
Beal
Fremont
Norwalk
Birmingham
Camp Sherman
Camp Sheridan
Levere's Nation
Tages
Newell Barber and Beauty Parlor
GEO. R. Allen & Son
Elyria Hardware Co
C.O.D
West Bridge Street
Murbach Coal & Supply Co
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