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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1930
Page
11
Fragmentary OCR references a Swedish colony in Lindsborg and mentions cooperation and unity. details unclear due to garbled phrasing. No discernible event, date, or named individuals beyond place and general theme of community work.
The Kansas State community of Lindsborg is praised as a highly self sufficient Swedish immigrant settlement with Bethany College, broomcorn industry, grain elevators and flour mills. Leadership from Rev Carl Swensson is highlighted as key to growth and civic cohesion. The town’s festival and cultural ties to Sweden are noted, including praise for Mme Nordica’s visit.
A Boston dining club with roots in the Free Soil era marks its forty eighth anniversary at a December gathering. Notable members include Henry Wilson, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and John A. Baker among many leaders in national state and municipal affairs. The group, once the Bird club later Banks club, is described as the kingmaker of Massachusetts politics and hosts prominent figures at its dinners.
Republican senators held a caucus in Washington on February 15 to keep the Panama canal treaty under consideration, aiming for ratification before adjournment. They pledged not to block the executive session and to prioritize treaty action while preserving the statehood bill’s progress.
Washington reports that American interests in Honduras face risk due to internal turmoil. Secretary Moody orders Admiral Coghlan to move cruisers and gunboats from the Caribbean to Honduras gulf coast. Also noted are a Monmouth Trust receivership filing in New Jersey and a Senate nominee for commissioner of corporations, with cold weather and snow in Columbus.
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Census figures reveal 16,448,153 unmarried men versus 7,373,819 unmarried women in the United States. The male population surpasses the female due to migration and birth rates, leaving 2,500,000 more single men of marriageable age than single women. Data by state include New York 240,000 and Utah 35,000 single men.
A Chicago Chronicle excerpt notes the westward labor shift as Native men replace traditional roles, with large groups of Indians employed by a western railroad for track laying at $1.50 daily. The piece highlights a gendered reversal, as men do the work formerly done by women, and trains a critical eye on cultural change.
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