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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1928
Page
7
Elyrians look back on 1928 as a prosperous year with no major epidemics and steady improvement. The Community Chest performed well, schools and churches thrived, and scientific advances promised better living. The piece urges self examination, resolves to improve, and a clean slate at midnight signals responsibility for the coming year.
On New Year's Day many customs are noted from ancient to early modern times. From Numa’s 713 B C festival to Janus to peasants in Italy and Parisian etiquette, and former English practices, the piece surveys gifts, gloves, cannon salutes, and superstitions about who enters first and the Saxon wolf mouth month name.
A reader asks about registering a baby's birth and securing a birth certificate, with guidance on why it matters for citizenship, schooling, and rights. The column covers ensuring doctor responses, recognizing potential hernias, and breast care during pregnancy and nursing, plus instructions for requesting pamphlets and future topics like vitamins and history notes.
An item lists January holidays, contrast of nations with Turkey having 26 official holidays and thrifty Scotland five, while New York City lacks a local holiday. It also notes notable birth and death dates of historical figures such as Jacques Cartier, Lord Cornwallis, General Montgomery, and Meade, with scattered fragmented text about James Fields and an early stemiuclipine reference.
Arthur Hugh Jenkins editor of The Farm Journal reports 1928 crop and livestock values will reach their highest wartime total. Outlook for 1929 is positive with general prosperity. cattle profits rise, hog prices climb, and milk production increases strain demand amid higher farm credit and expenditures.
The Republican platform pledges effective tariff protection for farm products and a forthcoming emergency bill to raise tariffs this session. A new agricultural encouragement law is expected to pass before summer 1929, boosting confidence as farmers push improvements and cooperative selling. Farmers already advance prosperity through better farming methods.
Murray Ridge notes a sequence of Sunday visits and Tuesday gatherings. Mrs. Fred Decker and daughter Winfred visited Mrs. Prod Simms and daughters Marjorie and Mabelle of South Ridge. The Stangs and Stang family hosted guests from South Ridge and Detroit connections are recalled.
Mr and Mrs Eppley hosted Friday evening gathering. Miss Bessie Sites remains confined at home due to flu. Mrs Ervin Eppley and Pearl Eppley visited Mr Ed Burrer and family in West Ridge. Eluore Sonnell of Elyria visited Tuesday evening with her sister Mae Powell. Richard Sneff has returned home after a lengthy stay away.
A brief item notes school vacation time spent with relatives in Detroit Michigan. Mr and Myre Corrin Burrs and son called at the Burrer residence on West Ridge Tuesday evening. Also Misa Pearl Eppley staying with Mr and Mrs By 4 Jones in Cleveland. The Western Union was wintered on April 4 1856 by act of the New York legislature.
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