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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1931
Page
2
A crime tale unfolds with the Funny Toff gang mocked by mad laughter as diamonds vanish from the Ibbotson house. Dick and Detective Pollard chase a clever burglary aided by forged solicitor messages and duplicate keys, tracing a lone lead to Mendips and a lead mine site.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sage of Lorain were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A W Jones. Earl Bouga and friend from Cleveland were in town Sunday afternoon. Mrs. A F Wilcox visited her son in Buffalo. The Quilting Club met with Mrs Flora Foster. Lyndon Chapter O EB met with guests from Grafton and Elyria. Mr and Mrs George Woodruff hosted an eight o clock dinner for several friends including the Jones and Rawson families.Mrs Cora Sprague Bernice and others of Cleveland visited with Robert Smith and family.
The Cadillac Motor Car Company spent 54 million dollars in 1930 to bring out two new models, the V-16 and V-12, as a bold move to restore business during the recession. The V-16 was introduced in January 1930 and the V-12 followed in October, reflecting faith in the country and Cadillac products amid economic slump. Meanwhile, Oldsmobile markets a new method for bearing manufacture to reduce air and gas bubbles in babbit linings.
Nash Motors reports a rising auto market with deliveries across the nation. Sales manager C. H. Bliss cites weekly increases from early January to mid February, including 17.87 percent over 1930 for the week ending January 17 and 25.22 percent gain for the week ending February 7.
A fragmentary local column notes that twelve thousand times a minute each connecting rod bearing endures pressure and friction in engines at standstill, with unrelated social items about visits on West Main Street and obituaries for Mrs. Jay Jackson and Mrs. Fanny Holcomb Nichol.
Jim Herndon of Raleigh North Carolina driving a Ford collided with a Florida flyer train car. The impact hurled the car into a coal pile as observers reported.
Reported in Miles City Montana Lynch drove a stock Model A Ford Sedan for four days and nights while handcuffed to the wheel. He traveled near nonstop with no fatigue noted by observers. In another incident salesman John T Greenway collided with a hawk head on windshield glass remained intact. Ford car sales in New England rose 6.5 percent in 1930 with Massachusetts up 10.7 percent and Rhode Island up 11.5 percent.
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