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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1933
Page
4
The final vote in the last presidential election broke records with Governor Roosevelt’s vast plurality of 7,054,520 votes and the largest national totals for both popular and electoral votes. The country shows strong independent support, with many traditionally solid states swinging to the winner.
The piece argues Washington is paralyzed with two months to inauguration. It contrasts Hoover and Roosevelt on a debt commission and a sales tax, credits a wets defeat for repealing the 18th Amendment, and suggests immediate Congress access as a fix. It ends with a quip about a Memphis Santa kissing a 17 year old girl.
The Oi City Derrick reports a young society woman committed suicide using a silk stocking, stunning observers who believed such an act could not be done.
1918 air mail stamp printer is fired after an inset airplane image appeared upside down. Yet the misprint perfumes collectability as stamps now fetch close to $3,000 each, drawing attention in the Louis Yale Courier Journal.
Anniversaries list notable births and deaths including Aaron Burr Horace Binney Jakob Grimm Isaac Pitman Tom Thumb William Goebel George Burgess and others. Today in history notes treaty ratification Pendleton Act Utah statehood. Today's birthdays include Admiral Schofield Carter Glass and others. Horoscope notes urge curiosity and travel.
Garford Style during 1928 was received at the plant today and a price cut to 2760 dollars was noted. Elyria City Council approved 175000 in bonds to remodel Washington School on Middle Avenue and elected F M Stevens president J H Hurst vice president and S Rockwood clerk treasurer.
Friends report the sudden death of Michael A. Stoup at his Lester Ohio home on December 28 after a bout of illness following a Southern trip. He retired from fifty three year service as a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad telegraph operator and ticket agent. He is survived by wife Lydia Bart Stoun, three sons Grover Bart and Glenn, daughter Eleanor Benson and many friends. Funeral held at his Lester home with Rev. Schott presiding and burial in Spring Grove Cemetery Medina Longacre and Son in charge.
A 1908 Elyria Telegram item notes 200 Lorain County signers needed for either a Taft or Foraker straight ticket to be placed on the county primary ballot, with Lorain County entitled to 10 delegates.
Mrs. William Rauscher has been released from Lodi Hospital and returned home, with reports of improved condition. The piece lists numerous local visitors and callers, including families from Elyria, Medina, Homerville, and nearby towns during the past week. It notes social calls at the homes of Hamm, Gravenstetter, Smith, Armbruster, Haumesser, and others, reflecting a busy week of local visits.
Local families from Valley City and nearby towns visited relatives in Medina Elyria and Lester during the holidays. School resumes after the Christmas break at the centralized Mallet Creek system with teachers back to duties.
Mrs Lydia Stoup recently mourned the death of her husband Michael A Stoup and left her home two miles east of town Monday for an extended visit with relatives in St Louis Missouri The St Louis relatives attended the funeral last Friday and she plans no definite return date A separate item notes Lucille Gross and Norman Derick of Valley City narrowly avoided a serious accident at a Baltimore and Ohio railroad crossing when warning signals turned red as they approached four miles southeast of town.
Mrs Rose Casper hosted a six oclock dinner at her Avon home for Miss Lillian s birthday with twelve guests. Out of town attendees included Harold Bainbridge Elyria George Burge and Herbert Caple of Cleveland. Auxiliary Knights of St John officers and candidates will install at the parish hall Wednesday evening led by Kathryn Tamblyn. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Gates also entertained at Sunday dinner with guests including Mr and Mrs John Sinko and two sons Mira M A Webber.
Mrs Rose Gates and Mrs G Gates with two children attend a watch party at the Trigalet home in Sheffield. A school committee plans a social card party at St Marys on Jan 15. Mr and Mrs Knipper visited Lorain. Avon fire dept answered a Sunday morning alarm at Simon Schwartz home with no damage. Mr and Mrs Urban Kinzel of Carlisle visited relatives. Evan Miller announces marriage to Oita Gratz of Toledo. James Peck hosted dinner with his mother Sarah Peck. Mrs Iyn Hod, son Kenneth and friend Lotenski from Cleveland. Mina Mdith Webber hosted New Year guests Beatrice Novk Hazel Borend Norwood Bailey Ridgeville. Russell Nickolé of Hlyria visited John Webber family Thursday. BE W Belcher and Augusta Heins hosted a watch party Saturday night on Lake Road. Arthur Gibson Aura Padley of Lorain visited Nina Warden Sunday afternoon. Russell Abraham Frank Smith and Jonnie Hunston of Cleveland visited Walter Herbert Sunday.
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