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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1929
Page
19
Cambridge Ohio on February 25 offers a dollar-day wedding with Probate Judge Sam Schlup performing nuptials for $1. Schlup cut initial costs to $1 for the license and $1 for the certificate, undercutting the usual $1.59 fee for the certificate while hinting at a local marketing boom.
Seward Evans of Crisfeld Maryland reports nervous sleeplessness ended after using Wheeler's Nerve Wits-Loxer. The J. W. Brant Co offers a small trial bottle for ten cents by mail and a regular bottle for $1.10 at most drug stores, noting it contains no alcohol or habit forming drugs.
Wakeman high school finished third in the Huron county basketball tournament at Norwalk. The team beat New Haven 28 to 29 and lost to Monroeville, the champions. Todd placed second in the foul shooting contest with 16 of 20. Scheid edged him by one. Next week the sectional meet offers another chance for the sharpshooter.
Warner Bros. comedy drama Fancy Baggage arrives at Capitol for a two day run. Cast includes Audrey Ferris Myrna Loy George Fawcett Hallam Cooley Wallace MacDonald Edmund Breese Eddie Gribbon Burr McLantosh Virginia Sales. Jerome Kingston wrote story with Graham Baker scenario John Adolfi directed.
George Bancroft stars in The Wolf of Wall Street directed by Rowland V. Lee. He plays a swaggering finance brute who runs stock orders from bath to mouthpiece dictaphone. Doris Anderson wrote the story. Supporting cast includes Badanova, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas, and Paul Guertzman. Opens Sunday at Rialto.
Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle star in Beau Broadway at Rialto. Hugh Trevor, a college actor, balked at boxing drills before filming. Trevor finally faced heavyweight Ernie Owens in a staged bout, slugging back and prompting Owens to question whether his opponent was truly an actor.
Birmingham M E church led by Rev W M Kinsley holds Sunday services with Sunday school at 7 45 a m and evening service at 7 59. Local reports include Mrs P Oehling improving slowly and several residents visiting friends and attending meetings in Oberlin Lorain and Sandusky.
Ralph Hepburn and Al Jenkins headline the photoplay Champions, with Knute Rockne Florenz Ziegfeld Eva La Gallienne Quin Hyan Ann Pennington and others in a Movietone production to be shown March 1 and 2 at the Studebaker garage admission free cast includes a Paris fashion show and Roay's orchestra musical accompaniment. local notices report illness, visits, and a funeral in Elyria Huron and nearby towns.
Harold of Oberlin visited the Horn residence on Sunday afternoon. Joe Greenwit and wife attended the masquerade in Berlinville Saturday night. Henry Altmiller and wife went to Wakeman Friday evening for the funeral of Fern Parker Bowman. In Erie county tourney Birmingham high school boys lost while girls won the cup. Sumomiers claimed first in foul ball shooting. Pfarr second. Dorothy Nevins was a weekend guest.
Helen and Esther Broughtou attended the basketball tourna ment at Sandusky Friday and Saturday. Mrs. J Ries and daughter Elizabeth and Florence of Oberlin, Mixa Rose Petro of Elyria visited Mr. and Mrs. C B Griffen Sunday. A Le Weidemann and son Harry were Milan visitors one day last week.
Newspapers collected by charitable agencies in Los Angeles are yielding more than 1600 dollars per day, says Clarence I. Matson of the Chamber of Commerce Harbor Committee. The papers are shipped to Java, Hong Kong and India for wrapping and firecracker manufacture, with old newspapers exported to the region.
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