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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1931
Page
4
From Chicago comes a story about Francis X. Bushman once a matinee idol now doing "small time" with a minor stock company. The piece notes fortunes made in the film era, questions figures claimed, and warns about riches spent quickly and the risk of luxury harming judgment in the theatrical world.
In 1874 Cheng and Eng, famed Siamese twins, died in North Carolina at age 67. The 1917 note records the transfer of sovereignty of the Danish West Indies to the United States.
Mr and Mrs Albert Buck and daughter Marie of Milan visited the Wm Myers family. Horace Green and family from Sandusky visited the Ray Green household. Hina Robinshaw visits her sister Mrs Horace Green. Paul Huffaker returns from California and Arizona. Wm Myers and children with Ross Hales and Dorothy joined T M Sell in Berlin Heights. Annabelle Morrone of Cleveland visits Claire Goss. children with Lyman Hurst of Oberlin. Mrs John Caswell recovering from illness.
A city relief drive organized by O O Strohe and J W Brandt mobilizes industrial plants to donate food weekly. Mayor coordinates with central agencies. school nurses help identify the neediest families to receive groceries. The plan aims to ensure no one in Elyria goes hungry and expand donations to more factories.
The Michigan Supreme Court rules state law prohibiting high school students from joining fraternities or secret societies constitutional. The writer notes mixed impact of such groups, but the decision leaves school regulation of activities to local districts, and asserts the case settles a long debate without hardship to students.
In a critique of censorship, the piece argues fascist Italy delayed reporting Bolama air expedition deaths, claiming censorship taints the achievement by highlighting a partial failure while obscuring the broader success of transatlantic flight. It contends premature lifting favors the regime's image.
In New York a transplanted Midwesterner recalls awkward greetings and social misreads in theatre lobbies and at parties. He shares encounters with familiar faces turned stranger by success, the glamour of city life, and his own lingering edge of insecurity.
A breezy note imagines life in a small town where residents need not pay others to watch belongings. The speaker laments distant city ways while praising simple neighborly quiet and freedom from petty charges.
An odd pairing prompts a sharp remark about social standing and aloofness. The excerpt references Paul Whiteman and William Thaw, described as a Social Register figure and Pittsburgh millionaire, with a satirical voice claiming the speaker is one of God’s Frozen People about class and demeanor.
Today's history notes mark anniversaries for Benjamin Franklin born in Boston in 1706 and Charles Brockden Brown born in Philadelphia in 1771 among others. It also recalls Thaddeus Fairbanks born in Brimfield Massachusetts in 1796 and Anna M T Redfield born in Ontario in 1860. The Battle of Cowpens occurred in 1781.
Birth anniversaries noted for several prominent figures include Cora Wilson Stewart founder of Moonlight Schools born in Farmers Kentucky now 56, Robert Hutchins president of University of Chicago born in Brooklyn New York 32, Alvan Macauley Packard Motors president born Wheeling West Virginia 59, Joseph H Young Rio Grande Southern Railway president born Salt Lake City 67, Carl Laemmie German born moving picture producer 64, David Lloyd George former UK prime minister born 68.
The text describes a rugged nature favoring solitary study or meditation. It notes temperamental unevenness challenging friends who cannot see past the crust, and warns of misfortune in travel, advising contentment within a limited sphere of action.
Seismograph readings indicate rock formation deep beneath the surface and discuss floating mountains as a geological concept.
Ridgeville January 17 the P T A gathered in the school auditorium for the first post holiday meeting. Grades 7 and 8 performed music directed by Miss Ruth Christman, followed by the business session. Miss Josephine Wilco spoke on her trip abroad last summer and a lunch conclude the event.
Aviation experts testified that Charleston is ideally located as a proposed American terminus of a trans Atlantic air mail route and forms one end of the shortest air line across the United States with San Diego as the other terminus, fueling Charleston’s claim as the aerial crossroads of America.
Wise spending in 1931 drives January Clearance offers on musical instruments and home goods. Saxophones banjos violins drums and xylophones discounted 10 to 25 percent for cash next week. Boehm system clari net priced at 75 dollars and various pianos radios lamps and appliances advertised with limited quantities and wholesale-like prices.
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