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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1929
Page
4
A Elyria columnist suggests designating a family circle week as flu fears close public places. He notes more families share time together, despite sickness, and muses on a week with no activities urging fathers mothers and children to enjoy each other’s company at home.
The "'Question Mark'" endurance flight logged about 151 hours in the air, the longest since flight began. Five men rode the craft as it refueled in midair, keeping the plane under control within a limited area. The crew endured fatigue, torn clothes, and deafening engine roar, yet celebrated a safe landing and new aviation knowledge.
Mayor James Hewitt addressed the City Council last night urging a sane improvements program with emphasis on street signs. He said an appropriation will be requested to begin the work and hopes to have all streets plainly designated in a few years for ease of navigation for strangers and residents alike.
Winter chapped lips prompt advice to use a white lip stick made with cold cream and glycerine for protection from cold air. The note warns against ordinary cold cream, urges regular application outdoors, and links chronic lip cracking to potential cancer risk later in life.
Burton Holmes born in Chicago 59 years ago. Queen Helena of Italy born in Montenegro 56 years ago. Henrik Shipstead born in Kandiyohi County Minnesota 48 years ago. Augustus Thomas born in St. Louis 70 years ago. Clay S Briggs born in Galveston 53 years ago. First Pan American Airways plane christened by Mrs. Coolidge. High Council of the Salvation Army meets in London. Battle of New Orleans Day holiday in Louisiana. Window Shades Manufacturers Association meets in Indianapolis. Vegetable Growers Association meets in Baltimore. Soda Water Bottlers Association meets in Boston. Master Painters and Decorators meets in Boston. Shorthorn Breeders Association meets in Columbus. Farmers of Manitoba meet in Brandon.
The official, who has served as secretary of state since March 1925, has a St. Paul home. Global diplomacy now requires U S participation in many international conferences and treaties, including about 700 arrangements. The 1930 fiscal year estimate for the foreign affairs department is 14,744,831 dollars, with cash receipts of about 8,915,733 dollars leaving 5,429,098 dollars to be funded by taxpayers, roughly four and three tenths cents per person.
Wanda Pa. Louis Myers 26 of the city drank a bottle offered in a New Year party dare. Host Myers left the room, returned with a bottle said to contain water but filled with oil of cedar. He drank it and died three hours later from the poison. The case echoes a recent death of Ethel Vanderpoole 149 who perished after drinking cedar oil.
Ph 2178 advertisement for Crook's Coal Co lists Silver King Coal as a proud Kentucky product with a contact point through phone number 2178 for purchasing coal and related services.
Mrs Safe Baddar buys turnips while Mrs Faun Lippincat complains of beauty sessions and a doster ailus in a humorous overheard scene. The piece mimics a stray OCR with garbled phrasing and playful dialect.
E. Burton Holmes, the 59 year old travel lecturer, is remembered for a career spanning 39 years since his first Chicago lecture. He has traveled and lectured worldwide, bringing distant vistas to audiences everywhere.
A ledger of historical figures with birth and death details appears. Jonathan Belcher, colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey, born. died Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Jowell Macon, advocate of public schooling in Medfield, Massachusetts, born. died Orange, New Jersey. General Andrew Jackson’s victory at New Orleans cited. James Longstreet described as “far horse” of the Confederacy, born fadgefield District, South Carolina. died Ga in 1824. Wilkie Collins, novelist, born London. died there. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema noted.
A marker at the Newry home site in Austin will keep Tevan Memory fresh. Design by Edward J. Philips of Dallas was chosen in a competition by the University of Texas. It honors his Austin residence where O. Henry published Texas Sittings.
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