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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
2
Jan 16 report shows high demand for rat traps as rodents multiply in Martin's Ferry. Workers’ steel works furnaces keep rats warm and fed on lunch scrips, driving them from nearby tin plating plants that now sit idle.
In Klondike Texas a nine year old boy, son of farmer J B Moore, had a hackberry seed sprout grow into his ear while eating hackberries. The sprout rotted and damaged hearing. doctors removed the decayed seed and sprout, ending the incident.
New York January 1 6 000 000 children have defective eyes approx 75 percent of 16 060 000 school children in the United States with health defects vision care programs started to address eye problems up to ten percent of these children show defects impacts on schooling noted by health authorities
Danville Indiana reports a murder case where the victim Min Sarah Sabina Cummings aged recluse was slain by a robber on November 1. Investigators found sugar and money hoarded on the property including about $11 000 hidden nearby and $7 500 plus a half barrel of sugar buried near the house.
American operatic composer and conductor Reginald Composse died in Chicago today from apoplexy. He led major orchestras and wrote acclaimed operas. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced.
The body of John F Yoage of Detroit, who died there, will be sent to Detroit for burial.
Antonio Sansone, tied to Sing Sing death house after admitting six murders, is to travel daily between prison and Brooklyn for a murder trial. A Supreme Court justice advised he would be safer in Sing Sing, so he will commute with two keepers escorting him both ways as he testifies.
A father asks his son Moses about a message. Bobby replies he did not know, then jokes that Mose was a telephone number, revealing a misread in a humorous exchange. The line plays on confusion between a biblical name and a phone numeral.
Miss Celine Calve daughter of Mme Calve and widow of a mill owner plans a winter season in Porto Rico. She charms diplomatic circles and will be missed by Washington’s younger set. Elwood S Brown led Philippine baseball in 1910 and helped spread the game abroad, while the Manila Movement and YMCA events advance international athletic outreach as Detroit hosts a convention.
An attempted bank robbery at Brot Was and Lecker streets in Manhattan ended with the bandit captured after a gunfight in which 20 shots were fired. One desperado was captured, two fled. a man believed to be involved was held at Mercer county Workhouse, with a judge deciding a longer sentence.
In Trenton on January 16 William H Van Horn of Lambertville was convicted of embezzling $8000 from the Pennsylvania Railroad, where he worked. Judge Davis asked for the proper sentence and Van Horn suggested a sentence, citing the circumstances of the case.
In Sir John Mandeville’s Trgg eis a description of a beast he calls Gerfauntz or Ore fes a spotted creature taller than a horse with a neck of twenty cubits allowing one to look over a great tall house.
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