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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1926
Page
9
Chicago and Cook county reported a new murder record for 1925 with more than 389 confirmed deaths and six inquests possibly raising the total to about 400. Comparisons show rising totals from 1920 to 1924, suggesting the 1925 rate outpaced 1923’s growth despite uncertainty in final counts.
The article notes that Lady Astor offered to fund a trip to Russia for any socialist and family willing to relocate. She initially received thirty applications, some withdrew, but she is funding six families to move, and intends to continue speaking out on the matter.
Hazing in French collegiate life draws attention as the Forty Immortals and their freshmen tradition. The academy enforces costly ceremonies with uniform pieces avoided by members, who refuse the full dress to dodge public notice.
The Interior Department reports 249,595 Indians in the continental U S an increase of 2693 for the year but the full blood Indian is vanishing. The Navajo is among the few where full bloods rise while most growth stems from mixed Indian and white ancestry. In 1924 out of 346,902 Indians the full bloods numbered 162,662.
The New York Central Railroad offers a daily honeymoon train from New York to Niagara Falls. The schedule departs New York at 8 35 p m and arrives at Niagara Falls after 8 00 a m, then returns the next evening to New York arriving the following morning. The note argues the 24 hour honeymoon should be preserved.
Discussion of plans to drain parts of the Zuider Zee to add land for a growing population. The note recalls two centuries of Dutch reclamation projects and the recent rains and floods testing national resolve.
A partial reading notes warnings about medicine and foreign cabinet issues from China. The text references a laboratory testing and an expected outcome.
A compilation of notable dates with births and deaths from 1844 to 1924 including Henry Glass and James Belford. It notes a 1901 gas municipal ownership milestone in Toronto and a 1924 Kemal Pasha assassination attempt report from Smyrna. ONE YEAR AGO TODAY records an eastern US earthquake. Sir Gordon Hewart and others share today’s birthday listings.
A mix of historic anniversaries and contemporary events unfolds across cities. The Confederate flag unfurled in Mississippi fifty five years ago at Jacksons secession convention. Canada fixes a date for a new Dominion Parliament. Quebecs sixteenth legislature begins its third session. The White House hosts a judiciary reception. National WCTU marks a day of prayer for law observance. A Vanderbilt nuptial takes place in New York. Russia keeps old calendar for Christmas amid new calendar adoption. A national shippers advisory board may be formed at a Chicago conference. Minneapolis and Worcester notices list Associated General Contractors of America and Massachusetts Dairy Farmers Association.
Fragmentary OCR of a poem about a tiger from an old publication. Repeats lines asking about the immortal hand and eye that could frame thy fearful symmetry. Text shows scattered phrases and incomplete verses.
Leon Trotzky returns to the Soviet central committee and the political bureau after a year out. Kameneff loses expulsion vote, while Voroshilov becomes the new war commissar. Trotzky vows to uphold orthodox communist doctrine.
A Ukrainian farmer born under fifty rose through Russian politics, serving prison terms for radical utterances totaling ten years. He joined the Bolshevik party in 1903, shifted away from both Mensheviks and Bolsheviks later, aligned with Bolshevik causes after Bloody Sunday, fled to Germany during WWI, was imprisoned, escaped to France, lived in Manhattan, and returned to Russia in 1917 to take part in the Bolshevik Revolution.
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