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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1920
Page
7
The article notes a birthday not observed and a day of business suspension in town. City hall and the court house banks closed and veterans headquarters display flags and the national colors while citizens observe patriotism.
Feb 23 report from Ibert notes Gy Brothers of Huntington delivered a carload of 20 mule team hybrids from Clay County. HW Overfelt of Clarence Missouri purchased the herd at an average price of 415 dollars per head.
Berea launches a community chest campaign to raise 4000 dollars for Red Cross Boy Scout Near East relief and local American Legion post. A Goldwin Wallace college music hall meeting featured speakers from the organizations presenting their claims.
Eight masked gunmen entered the Tammany Club in the eighth Assembly district yesterday and robbed about forty members as they played cards, taking roughly five dollars.
A brief report notes thieves seized money and jewelry and escaped before authorities could seize them. No suspects are named and no injuries are reported.
Stanley and Charles Allen former Gardiner residents in Boston mock the storm by running in bathing suits on Malin Street Waltham then diving into a snowbank before returning to a local factory. The scene unfolds amid a blizzard as observers read the Chronicle-Telegram Want Ads.
A rural mail carrier reports that every inhabitant of a Piute Indian village near Dyer California in Inyo County has influenza with more than a hundred deaths and nuns receiving medical attention. The situation has been brought to Inyo County authorities.
New York February 23. Four hundred guests at the Marie Antoinette hotel on Broadway and 67th Street were evacuated after a fire swept through the building. Fire crews battled the blaze as guests were escorted to safety and the cause remained under investigation.
Fire swept through the eighth floor of a hotel, driving occupants from their rooms. William H. Edwards, collector of internal revenue and former Princeton football captain, lost his priceless football trophies. The blaze caused about $25,000 in water damage. origin remains unknown.
Admission notes list Mrs Leroy Kessier and others at Gates hospital with several newborns including boys and a girl. Discharges include Mrs Williams and baby, Mrs Victoria Pilarcoak, and others from Avon Fremont St Chestnut St and airlawn locations.
An illiterate Austrian earning four thousand six hundred twenty seven Canadian dollars worked as a laborer at the Wellandtsteel plant in St Catharines Ontario. A misfiled income tax case is noted as a related infraction. Moonshine mash fed to hogs in Charleston West Virginia follows. A raid by a Dillon squad seized a still and led to hogs consuming the mash before sleep.
The German interior minister ordered removal of Kaiser and Kaiserin portraits statues busts and emblems from public buildings and their deposition in a Berlin museum.
Police found Sylvanus Thresher a jewelry worker, his eleven year old daughter Gladys and Miss Margaret Muthenlid shot dead in the Thresher home after a telephone alert. Authorities believe Thresher killed the girl with Miss Mulugdiagd before shooting himself.
Manila Feb 23- Major General Leonard Wood was endorsed as the Republican candidate for president and the platform urged postponement of withdrawal of American sovereignty over the Philippine Islands until Filipinos can safely assume control. Eaton Feb 23- John W. Martin aged ten was reported injured yesterday.
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