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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1928
Page
2
The Willys-Overland Company proclaims Whippet as leading the American light car field with an 18 month record span of tests. The car’s stamina, speed, power, and economy have been proven by 159000 owners over a combined half billion miles of travel.
GRAFTON Jan 14 church announcements for Sunday Jan 15 cover M E Church services and revival close with themes The Tell tale Question 10 30 Sunday school led by BE Arnold 6 30 Epworth League with Miss Dorothy Soules 7 30 evening service Rev Brown speaks on The Day That Never Dawns Belden M E Church reports 10 40 Sunday school 11 00 morning service sermon The Converts Job 6 30 Epworth League. Local residents and visitors noted including the wedding of Norma Stoskoft of New London to Harold Goodman of New London and other social notes. C D Lehman and A B Hoot serve as jurymen in Elyria.
In Amherst South Amherst on Wednesday the Ex-high basketball team defeated Columbia Steel of Elyria at the high school auditorium by 25 to 19. Mrs Elizabeth Gibson hosted a 6 o'clock dinner for Misses Margaret Schneider Odelia Springer Kathryn Deimanstail and Sarah Davis. The Young Boys class of St Johns church held a social evening with the Voile Girls class at the church parlors featuring games contests and late hour luncheon by Mrs Alfred Rolif and Mrs A Jones. Personal notes mention Mr and Mrs Martin Springer at Mrs Carrie Schisler funeral in Brownhelm and Mr and Mrs H E Dulmaze visiting Lorain on business.
Jacob Wilhelm is ill at home on Leonhard street. Mrs Merton Bailey visited Elyria relatives. Mr and Mrs Rob two sons of Fistia spent Wednesday evening with Mr and Mrs Liam Meacham. Mrs George Gott and Mrs Arthur Eagle were Amherst visitors Thursday. Mrs Emil Ruth was in Elyria on business Wednesday. Miss Erma Springer of Oberlin stays this week with Mr and Mrs Ens. Griffins Mrs David Phillips shopped Elyria Wednesday. Mrs Alfred Winston and Amherst residents visited relatives Wednesday evening. Mrs William Meachan and daughter spent Wednesday in Kivria with Mrs Robert Slack.
Reports from a British source say Britain is prepared to open negotiations for reclaiming its former concessions in Hankow. The plan envisions British administration returning the area, contingent on Japan and France relinquishing their concessions, with some fearing a troop landing is premature. British residents report deteriorating conditions since turnover to Chinese administration.
National officers of the Spanish American War Veterans will be guests in Miami on January 20, with plans to visit Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban ambassador. Local hosts Joan J Pishing Camp will entertain them and they aim to arrange the national convention in Havana in October 1928.
London police officers patrol nightclubs in dress clothes becoming stylish fixtures. They frequently handle duty, perform dances with trained finesse, and charm demi mondaines while remaining undercover.
Paris reports French Pullman car porters on international trains threaten to abandon cars at Italian borders over Mussolini orders requiring a right arm salute to station masters and rail officials. Italy revokes in train service while protesting porters in their house organ rally against the decree. They face legal penalties for bringing French newspapers into Italy and must remove papers before crossing the frontier.
The illicit love of a doe and a billy goat ends in the death of the goat at a Guard Maryland preserve. A jealous buck attacks and the doe rejects the goat, leaving the buck to honor its claim. Also notes that England college costs exceed those in the United States with Oxford maintenance at about 1160 to 1500 dollars yearly.
Berlin fashion reports a change in wig style as bobbed hair wigs give way to curly red or gray options. Decree from city hairdressers fixes thermodiss bobbed wigs at 150 marks, about 35 dollars, with rental at 20 marks per evening for those who cannot own.
London report notes an awkward dinner where a toastmaster urged women to smoke while Viscountess Astor, the MP guest, objected and called the scene laughable and disgusting. The fragment presents social tension over public smoking norms.
marshal Chay Tso lin has approved an order for minting 406 008 silver dollars of the usual size and metallic content. commemorations of the Arat year of his anti-Red cam- paign are noted in fragments.
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