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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1924
Page
7
Local items recount visits, illnesses, and social events. Ralph Hast- family notes improvement after illness while at Berea hospital, Doris Leach traveled to Barberton with sister, Carolyn Andrews visiting relatives. Church groups held fundraisers and bazaars. Miss Carrie Jacobs hosted a weekend guest. basketball tournament attendance listed. various residents noted visiting, schooling, and home projects.
An old health advertisement extols Tru ty as a magnet drawing eyes toward beauty. It claims good health purifies blood, builds red cells, and radiates attractiveness. The text touts S. S. as a carefully prepared herbal remedy sold in drug stores, urging large bottle purchases.
Mrs Lucy Kulis hosted a dinner for Mr and Mrs Owen Walters at six o clock. Mrs D C Vanderhorn returns home after a Cleveland visit with her sister Mrs Seenmeyer. Ice Storm disrupted telephone lines. Mrs Ed Jacobs cares for Mrs Benter. Morris Weidrick, a student at ailcox Commercial School, home this week. Grace Allison and Forest Allison attended lodge at Penfield. Spencer Tigers beat LaGrange town 22 to 7 in basketball. Laura Fuller, Oberlin Kindergarten student, visited with her parents. Pythian Sisters held a card party. Mrs Geo Emerson hosted fourteen Ladies Aid members in the afternoon.
Local items from Avon Lake report Mrs Muin Nich of Lorain visiting her nephew Whi Snyder. Harold G Smith and wife welcomed a baby girl born February 14. Several gatherings at homes of Mavis Wagis and others include a church group dinner and a Washington’s Birthday observance. Attendees travel from Cleveland and Lakewood for events. Henry Mehling learns of his father’s death in Cleveland.
Anatole France argues Napoleon is both a world shaping hero and a profound failure due to lacking inner life. He cites Napoleon’s unity of action over reflection, his reliance on force, and his constant present-tense genius, while noting France’s praise of his vivid style and the paradox of heroic stature amid personal emptiness.
Prosperity hints in 1934 as Eastern Ohio Glass Company plans a March opening after years idle. Odin cigar factory to expand flooring and output to 60 million cigars yearly with 200 more workers. Capitol tower project discussed by architects Giles and Sons with $3.4 million cost and funds from existing state office sales. Northeastern Ohio cage tournament entries include twelve local teams at Western Reserve University with Lorain last year’s state champion seeking titles.
Henry Oberlander of the Highway Hotel Bucyrus secured a 140 verdict from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co for 79 bushels of potatoes lost in transit. In Martins Ferry Mrs. Samuel Y. Dennis 35 wife of a city councilman died from erysipelas after moving into a new home. Bucyrus searches for Ben Streib to fulfill a dying wish for Inspector Mollenkopf. she died from complications. St. Clairsville police report two men from a dry raid squad arrested for selling liquor to a boy 15 years old and facing intoxication charges.
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets as a simple way to gain weight. Claims include 5 to 10 pound gains in 20 to 22 days with a money back offer, urging purchases at local drug stores.
In New York City the Rev. A Edwin Keigwin of West End Presbyterian says he has literally conversed with God six times. He states each time the voice was clear as human speech and that God is ready to reveal Himself to every man as to him.
Advertising copy touts Zemo as a fast-acting eczema remedy available from druggists for 35 cents or 100 cents for a large size. It claims to relieve itching, heal shin troubles, and treat sores burns wounds and chafing. The product is described as a clean inexpensive antiseptic liquid with soap and ointment variants.
Arthur J. Davis, ex Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League head, reorganizes New York AML tangled by former superintendent William H. Anderson who was jailed for forgery. Davis is named to succeed Anderson.
In Columbus Fenton, a reformer, urged a ten year ban on liquor and strict regulation to end crime. He claimed the saloon would not return and accused crooked politicians as another major crime cause. He boasted of stealing 350000 in his career with nothing to show. In St Clairsville the Cross case stalled as jurors failed to reach a verdict on manslaughter after the mother and baby died in a fireless shack.
A citizen named Baughman wrote to Governor Donahey seeking relief from a noise and exhaust protest from a power plant near his home. He endured sleepless nights, paid a lawyer, and urged action after local authorities failed. The governor promised to act though no solution was ready yet.
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