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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1929
Page
2
For sale settee and trunk plus two commodes dishes chairs three burner stove call 37853 for details. Radio Crostery with tubes batteries speaker in good condition eight dollars 270 No Olive. Roll top desk good condition cheap call 41542. Well built rabbit coops cheap phone 34754.
Mrs. Charlotte Wilford aged 95 of North Ridge Amherst died at her home after a 10 day illness. Surviving are two daughters Mrs E F Cotten Sheffield and Mrs Maria A Standen Cleveland avenue, a son Homer Wilford Elria nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral from the late home Wednesday at 2 pm with burial at Elmwood cemetery.
London reports warn of looming famine across vast Indian regions as a late and weak monsoon leaves provinces from the United Provinces to Madras with sharply reduced rainfall. Authorities fear 80 percent of the population dependent on agriculture will suffer, with moslem debt and Hindu moneylenders likely to trigger hardship and dispossession.
The text cites famines as India’s greatest scourge, citing Bengal losses of about 10 million and similar fatalities in other famines. It notes 1866 toll of 1,000,000, 1869 with 1,500,000 deaths, 1876 to 1878 in Bombay Indras and Mysore with 4,000,000 perished, and 1899 to 1900 with 1,000,000 or more deaths plus a monetary loss of $250,000,009.
A new material named plass is reported from Liverpool University laboratories. Described as a glass substitute, plass can be molded or turned like wood and, when pressed, forms an opaque colored product. It is claimed to be nonbreakable, nonflammable, and may admit ultraviolet rays. the vonventor is Austrian chemist Dr Fritz Pollak, with Prof. Be bal and son Edward J. Baly involved in its production.
Premier Mussolini and Education Minister Belluzzo issue a circular to enlarge preparatory courses for primary instructors and give students in these programs similar funding to state normal school pupils. The aim is to boost male teacher numbers, raise status of rural teachers, and improve advancement opportunities.
George Hanson and William Nichols killed a coyote a few miles west of town. Local sportsmen say it is the second coyote killed in this county. An investment note claims one hundred dollars at six percent yearly will grow to sixty two thousand nine hundred seventy seven dollars and fifteen cents in twenty five years.
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