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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
5
The item lists staff and contact details for the Elyria Ohio Chronicle Telegram news desk. It notes managing editor F Burke, office address on Second Street, phone numbers for news and society, and references to Associated Press affiliation and advertising representation.
In Lyria Ohio the pay up week message stresses clearing debts to ease embarrassment and restore credit. A doctor recounts a diphtheria case where unpaid bills hindered timely care and worsened outcomes, underscoring how settling accounts supports families and commerce.
A reader laments dirty sidewalks after snow and urges enforcement of a sidewalk snow cleaning ordinance. The writer, ashamed, notes personal effort to keep a path clear and calls for communal action and city insistence on maintaining clean walkways.
The notice evokes a Valentines section written in verse from a sentimental perspective. It reflects on great-grandmothers and parents saving old sentiments and memories, mentioning mimives and lavender as decorative details.
A Pennsylvanian girl markets handmade handkerchiefs with bright color schemes and edged finishes. The piece also explains chimney height science, linking draft to fire size and indoor versus outdoor combustion, ending with a note on romantic nostalgia for missed romance.
A reflective note on antique valentines and the art of love poetry. It cites Pilate and various verses, musing on how modern cards differ from past handmade tokens. The piece questions how Valentine crafting evolved and mentions Charles Lamb as a writer associated with the theme.
A young Mian accuses a young woman of coquetry in a nave scene. The woman responds with a halfhearted valentine, written with two bleeding parts as a metaphor for shared heartbreak. The exchange reveals a heart’s ache for both, not just one.
A scrambled account chronicles Lady Linghamt Arodre’s marriages and romantic suitors during wartime London. It notes her first husband Samuel Slein Chaancer and mentions prominent figures like Lord Kitchener and Gen Cecil Lingham, plus a Caledonian Market fundraiser hat stall inspired by her experiences.
A fragment describes comic valentines as harsh burlesque items that mock recipients with exaggerated traits. It notes anonymous valentine cards often focus on hair color, facial features, height, and body type, using savage humor about appearance.
An old Wooster Democrat excerpt notes a boom in valentines during the year credited to George Howard in Ceed. It describes Valentine offerings as expansive and urges readers to contact Howard for the perfect message and assortment. An editorial mocks the season’s rush and hints at the authorship of witty advertising in Wayne County.
A letter from Ro B Whitehead asks the Chronicle Telegram to republish his article harmed by unreadable print. The note is signed and appears in the letters to the editor section.
A reader argues that a chamber of commerce speaker mocked democracy and praised Bolshevism, claiming the son who died in France gave his life for freedom. The letter defends democracy, cites Lincoln and Hamilton, and condemns privileged interests and referendums as manipulated by corporate power.
An old self criticism superstition used by wary young women who wish to dream fast. They boil an egg with salt and shell on to harden, remove the egg, eat the shell and white, salt it, then go to bed in silence and without drink. The aim is to secure a dream before year’s end.
A playful note quotes Dickens as Samuel Wellere laborious seeking a valentine to his beloved, signed Your Lovesick Tickwick.
AVALENTINE BIRTH NOTES the description of Lady Sarah Kennox born February 14 1745 praised as one of the era’s fairest women. Her father was a Vanderdon to King Charles II and Horace Walpole in 1761 called her more beautiful than you can imagine.
A reader relays a fragment claiming meeting a tall person on Valentine’s Day predicts a tall garden growth that season, though a contradictory line says the garden will stay near ground level.
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