New Year Pedestrian Safety Rules From 1932
Traffic expert Maxwell Halsey offers twelve resolutions to reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries in 1933. Do not cross against signals, avoid diagonals, check around parked cars, ensure streetcar clearances, walk on the left to face oncoming traffic, and leave ample room for swerving vehicles. Follow these safety tips to become a safe walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxwell Halsey
National Bureau of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
Inventions Decline as Patents Increase in 1932
The patent office in Washington saw a 12.6 percent drop in 1932 applications to 73,460 while grants rose by 18.6 percent and disposals surpassed 100,000. The report notes reduced fee income and urges repeal of increased fees, while special status aided capital investment and job creation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Buy American drive gains traction in Michigan and beyond
A campaign led by Detroit American Legion editor Jack R C Cann urges buying American to restore prosperity. Detroit water bills and city checks carry slogans, unions promote radio time, windshield stickers and painted tire covers spread the message, and empty storefronts display urgency about reopening and employing local workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Jack R. C. Cann
Detroit
Mich
American Legion Press Association
Michigan
Water Board
United Commercial Travelers
Union Labor Post of the Legion
The Silent Observer and Everyday Wit Across Times
A collage of humorous quotes and reflections on money debt temper and morals. It weaves headlines and quips about a successful man wealth double parked cars and everyday social quirks with jokes on modern life, manners, and civility.
Anniversaries and Birthdays Through History
Today in history and anniversaries list notable births and events across years 1784 to 1903. It highlights Stephen H. Long Joel Headley John Geary Charles Coffin John Altgeld Rachel Foster Avery Foster Ware and others with brief birth or event notes. A separate Today’s Birthdays section marks Alfred E. Smith Simon Guggenheim Stephen Leacock Rudyard Kipling and more. It also notes a 1812 ship disappearance and the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire. Today's Horoscope offers general guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen H. Long
Hopkinton
N. 1
Alton
Joel T. Headley
Walton
N. Y
Newburgh
John W. Geary
San Francisco
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Westmoreland County
Hamburg
Charles A. Coffin
General Electric Company
Somerset County
Maine
John P. Altgeld
Illinois
Cgermany
Joliet
Rachel Foster Avery
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Foster Ware
New York
Cooperstown
Alfred E. Smith
Francis C. Wood
Crocker Institute of Cancer Research
Columus
Ohio
Stanley H. High
Stamford
Conn
Chicago
Simon Guggenheim
U. S
Colorado
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
Washington, C
Nova Scotia
Stephen Leacock
McGill University
England
Rudyard Kipting
Britain
India
Litchfield Briefs Reflect Christmas Activity and Illness
A Litchfield Christmas scene shows families visiting Akron and Medina, with Alma Lang recovering from a vertebral fracture after a basement fall. Local gatherings include the Cemetery and Park Association meeting set for Jan 3 and a large Congregational church program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litchfield
Watt Starr and Sons
H.G Hastines
L. W. Starr
Lawrence Starr
Fred Schiehbaum
Akron
Alma Lang
Wm Musser
Elston
C. F. Musser
Gross
Erhart
Sendder
Congregational Church
Alfred Swanker
G. H. Jenne
Sherman Swanker
Lakewood
Ellsworth Swanker
Cleveland
Ruth
Harold Linkert
H. L. Landfried
Albert Reep
Homer Landfried
North Olmsted
Floyd Landfried
East Liverpool
Edgar Lowe
Grafton
Hubert Walton
Ray Funkhouger
Marian Knopf
Timely Snapshots From Every Corner Of The World
collage of brief items notes Mellon plans private life after March 4 and his Treasury tenure. mine fire at New Straitsville threatens coal fields. Radio City Music Hall opens as Rockefeller group’s first project in NYC. Douglas Fairbanks returns home with Mary Pickford. local social and church activities list dinners visits illnesses and holiday events across Elyria and nearby towns. Budapest unites Buda and Pest by six bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew W. Mellon
Great Britain
Pittsburgh
Burnange
New Straitsville
Hockiesvalley
Radio City Music Hall
New York
Heart of New York
Doug
Douglas Fairbanks
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Mary Pickford
Douglas, Jr
Headache Sufferer Sentenced In Germany For Theft
Heinerch, a German war veteran, with chronic headaches from a skull injury, was jailed for one year for stealing 20 marks from a registered felon. He claimed headache powders relieved pain and kept him from madness. Hunters in Missoula, Montana, shot a mad bull after pheasant hunting, seeking damages from the farmer.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ewe
Hudnutt
Chronicle-Telegram
Ulreulala
Second Street
Elyria
Loris County Printing & Publishing Company
J. Clare Giorge
Lorain
John W. Cullen Company
Michigan Ave
Fifth Ave
General Motors Bldg
George
William Handolph Hearst
Tipa
Junior
Pune
Stu
LIVE
College
Foday
Thedusia Burr
Charleston
3. C
Gadsden Purchase
American Petroleum Company
Pennsylvania Rock Oi
Iroquois Theatre Tire
Globe
Cr. D. Palmer
Russell Canfield
Ruth Kruggel
Herbert Rising
John Kruggel
Roy Knopf
Parma
Harry
Edwin Ausmuth
Norman
Canton
Raymond Morgan
Paul Kruggel
Dee
Allene Werner
Jane Adler
Ruth Landfried
Ruth Halladay
Max Barth
Ted Falconer
May H. Holser
North Olmeted
J. H. Barth
Russel Canfield
Glade Miller
John McQuate
Harland Bryenton
Tiffin
Arthur McQuate
L. B. Aufmuth
John Fletterich
Beaumont
Margaret Talba
Norman Aufmuth
Alvin, Round
Ruth Swanker
Ariene Rindfleish
Esther Frombau
Willis Leach
Penfield Congregational Church
Waite
Ill
A S Canfield
Millersburg
Russell
Alice Turner
Sill
Mary Leach
Joe Lawrence
Lexington
W.W. Smith
Louis Sufmuth
Wiss Janet Stephan
Rome
Wre Tohn Fletterich
Mre
R Kendall
Oberlin
Christian Endeavor
Lister Aufmuth
Budapest
Hungary
Buda
Pest
al. Burnett Penzoil
Missoula
Mont
Howard B. Somers
Brenner’s Thrift Store
Brenner
Brenner’s
Thrift
Broad
Broad ST
Cunninghams
Lorain County
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