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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1937
Page
8
John W. Cullen Company lists offices in New York at 501 Fifth Ave and Chicago at So. Michigan Ave and Detroit with General Motors noted. The fragment preserves a business listing tone and suggests agency coverage for major advertising clients across three cities.
After six months of drift the Nonntervention committee in London acts to curb volunteers and vessels aiding Spain's war effort. Major powers Italy Germany Russia and France have split motives and Britain faces limited leverage as a formal embargo is urged after March 6. The description frames the move as belated and insufficient to stop the civil war’s bloodshed.
Police and school authorities confront four youths aged 12 to 15 who entered a West Philadelphia school and caused extensive damage. Disruptions forced class changes while the youths stated they dislike school. The piece emphasizes home discipline and parental example as key to preventing youth crime. Sanford Bates resigns from the Federal Prisons system to lead the Boys' Club Movement, seeking crime prevention through youth engagement.
The New York Sun analyzes proposals to amend the Constitution following President Roosevelt’s court packing effort. It notes supporters split between formal legal amendments and casual symbols, warns against linking amendments to court packing, and questions Roosevelt’s stance amid public anger and crop insurance bill remarks.
A reflective piece on wandering paths in life and effort, noting how easy routes tempt and straight paths fade. It contrasts with a quip about German claims on American tanks and a downtown oddity about an Indiana musician seeking a railroad due to a train accident involving his saxophone, ending with a remark on a difficult equitable case.
New York Day by Day recalls croquet players in Central Park as a fading but dignified set over sixty, with names like Ethel Petit Roche and Gene Markey noted. The piece tethers to film history, referencing Harry Beaumont and Hazel Daly, and surveys celebrity habits, venues, and gossip, including Paul Whiteman artifacts and Schwab mansion as a fledgling museum.
A devotional piece centers on Jesus acknowledging Nathanael as an Israelite without guile. It argues conversion happens when one realizes to Christ, not when Christ discovers us. It emphasizes God’s knowledge extends beyond outward faults to reveal the deep, latent good within.
Notable anniversaries include Charles Pinckney a South Carolina revolutionary soldier and Constitution framer born in Charleston who died in 1825 alongside Samuel Medary a Columbus Ohio editor born in Montgomery Square Pennsylvania who died in 1864 Jane Austin the Worcester Massachusetts author born and Enrico Caruso the Italian tenor with an August 2 1921 death. Today in history recalls Vincennes Indiana captured by Col George Rogers Clark in 1779 and the 1791 act establishing the Bank of the United States with a ten million dollar capital. Maine’s 1820 secession vote marks the region’s split from Massachusetts.
A compiled snippet lists notable births and milestones: Thomas Davenport of Brandon Vermont received an electric motor patent, the 4547 Pennsylvania Railway Company chartered in 1913, the 16th Amendment income tax proclaimed, Oregon enacting a one cent gasoline tax in 1919. Also listed are Judge John Burke born in Sigourney aged 78, Glaretee Dekstra born in Cleveland aged 41, Dr Phoebus Levene of the Rockefeller Institute aged 65, Cully Cobb of Alexandria aged 53, Hugh McKahler of Princeton aged 54, and John Farrar of New York City noted as publisher and author.
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