Athens Fire Destroys Three City Blocks in Downtown
A fierce blaze in Athens Georgia destroyed three full city blocks in the downtown area. Fire crews battled for over five hours, aided by outside departments, with property damage pegged at around four million dollars and no loss of life reported. The fire began shortly before midnight, likely sparked by gasoline drum explosions at the Max Joseph building on Wall Street, spreading rapidly and devastating both sides of Wall Street toward Broad and College avenues before containment at daybreak. A second major fire in New Haven Connecticut leveled Mendel and Freedman department store on Chapel Street, causing about 1.06 million dollars in damage in zero temperature over three hours. The blaze also damaged adjacent structures and numerous warehouses and wholesale firms. the cause remained undetermined as of the forenoon report.
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Athens
Max Joseph
Wall Street
Denny Motor Company
Broad
Michael Brothers
Clayton Streets
Rything
College Avenue
New Haven
Conn
Mendel and Freedman
Chapel Street
H. M. Bullard Company
Ince
Chaytes S.monnsen Company
Hessericky Company
C. S. Marsick Co
Chatfield Paper Company
Elyria to Buy Site for City Schools Athletic Field
Elyria High School plans to purchase about eighteen acres on Middle Avenue south of Maple Street near the Green Line car barns for an athletic field. The $7,500 tract, owned by Frank Squire, is praised for level ground and drainage. Alumni pledged up to $2,500 for initial fit-out, with potential future school construction on the site.
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Elyria
Elyria High School
Board of Education
P. M. Stevens
Middle Avenue
Maple Street
Frank Squire
C. W. Savage
Oberlin
S & Imove
Funeral Services For Mrs. W. B. Colson Held In Elyria
A short service was conducted this morning at Russell Hearne Funeral Parlors for Mrs. W. B. Colson who died Sunday. At 8 15 the body was transported to Conneaut Ohio for the complete funeral and burial rites to follow at her home town.
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Elyria
Jan
Russel Hearne
W. B. Colson
Conneaut
Reduced Fares for Farmers During Big Farm Week at Capital
Elyria January 25 A large delegation of Lorain county farmers plans a Columbus trip next week under Lorain County Farm Bureau announcement. Central Passenger Association offers round trip half fare to Columbus for Farmers Week at Ohio State University January 31 to February 4. Obtain identification by writing Howard Rogers, County Agricultural agent, Turner Building Elyria Ohio. Eligible attendees may bring dependents.
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Capital
Elyria
Lorain County
Columbus
Farm Bureau
Central Passenger Association
Ohio
Toledo Yeggs Stage Jewelry Store Heist
Four bendites robbed Daniels Jewelry Store in Toledo at gunpoint seizing more than $30,000 in jewelry. Bandits bound proprietors and customers, waited while they unlocked the safe, then fled in a fast car. Police have only a vague description of the thieves.
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Toledo
Bendites
Daniels Jewelry
Coal men cheated the people claim senator says
Washington Jan 25 Senator Calder republican New York testified before the senate committee on his bill for federal regulation of the coal industry. He said the American people were fleeced by the coal trade last year. The claim was expressed during the hearing.
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Washington
Calder
New York
Senate
Masonic Club Opens New Lodge Rooms in Elyria
Elyria residents read of the Masonic Club opening its new club rooms in Masonic Temple with Spanish Leather Karpen furniture and billiard tables. A banquet on the sixth floor lodge rooms is planned and about five hundred guests are expected, with heat supplied for the occasion.
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Elyria
Masonic Club
Masonic Temple
Goughton Funeral Wednesday Afternoon
Elyria notices the death of Mrs. Rhoda Boughton in her 80th year. She leaves eleven children, two predeceased, and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 PM at her daughter's 419 East River Street home, conducted by Rev. W. L. Burner.
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Elyria
Rhoda Boughton
Edward
Rez
Mis
T. J. Stores
J. D. Squires
Lucius Boughton
Grandma Boughton
East River Street
W. L. Burner
Niagara County Board Warns Against Water Power Disruption
The Niagara County board of supervisors told the federal power commission that any attempt to interrupt Niagara River water power would cause inconveniences to business entrepreneurs nationwide during hearings on Niagara river power disposition.
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Washington
Niagara River
Board of Supervisors of
Niagara County
Federal Power Commission
Niagara’ River
Midyear Elyria High graduates twenty five students
Elyria public schools plan a midyear graduation for the first time. Twenty-five graduates will receive diplomas at the technical high school auditorium with Dr. W. H. McMaster of Mt Union College addressing them. The ceremony includes a high school orchestra and a grammar-to-high-school entrance for seventy five. Baccalaureate services at First Congregational Church featured Rev. Wm. Flammer delivering a message about the soul’s value over worldly wealth.
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Elyria
Ruth Arline Aussiker
Dorothy May Bell Wendle Angeline Blar
Joseph C. Conrad
Pyrle
Elva Cornish
Robert Charles Dunfor
Harold Clark Dunnell
Reginald Burdell Dwir
John B. Hancock
Julia Leela Hansman
Emeline Harris Ray Fugene Hollis Orlando Hunter Hurst
Fredd Marie Rothe
Barry E. Lawrence
Lorene Margaret Marsh
Gladys Edna MecCullong
Ruth Elizabeth Meyers
Margaret Maybury
Dorothy May Parton
Clara Lucy Ranika
Mildred Elizabeth Rich John Coventry Smith
Roy Silvanus
Vimepny
Homer R. McCollum
Mustocwill
Promotiona
First Congregational Church
Blytia High School
J. H. Grant
W. L. Burner
Stetson Endorsed by Lorain County Republican Executive Committee
Lorain County Republican Executive Committee in special session endorsed Attorney F A Stetson to succeed Henry A Dykeman as State Fire Marshal on the Lorain County Board of Election. Three candidates were considered, including Ross Fauver and George Stark, with Stetson securing the endorsement. The group also supported C T Routgahn for internal revenue collector and approved funds to rent a hall for a county meeting.
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H. A. Dykeman
Board OF Elections
Women ON Committee
Davis
Lorain County
Thal
H. A. Dykemen
Har
Ry L. Davis
Ohio
C. T. Routgahn
Mansfield
Internal Revenue
Gasoline Prices Fall Two Cents A Gallon
The Standard Oil company of Indiana announced a two cent cut in gasoline nationwide from Chicago. Station prices dropped from 29 to 27 cents a gallon and tank wagon prices from 27 to 26 cents. Kerosene also fell from 18.5 to 15.5 cents per gallon.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Auditor denies Schwab voucher charged to shipping board
In testimony before the Walsh committee, S A Schick Bethlehem Steel auditor denied any part of a 265000 October 1918 voucher for Charles M Schwab expenses was charged to ship construction. He said the voucher was charged to Bethlehem's profit and loss and not picked up by Emergency Fleet Corporation. Schick contradicted earlier claims by S WH Abadie that the item was Schwab's personal expense.
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New York
Charles M. Schwab
S. A. Schick
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Walsh Congressional Committee
Shipping Board
R. Schick
Bethlehem Corporation
Emergency First Corporation
WH Abadie
The
Schwab
Lorain Man to Face Murder Probe This Week
Elyria Jan 25 Prosecuting Attorney Webber said he will investigate the murder of Mrs. Mary Kosch by her husband Mike Kosch in Lorain Saturday night Witnesses are to appear at 9 am Kosch is jailed and guarded against self harm The current grand jury has heard 172 witnesses in about 60 cases and plans to report Thursday
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Elyria
Webber
Mary Kosch
Mike Kosch
Lorain
Kosch
Quarry Co asks change location of Quarry road
Elyria Ohio January 25 county commissioners received an application from Ohio Quarry Co to move Quarry road in Amherst township. Land on both sides and a valuable stone vein under the roadway justify the request. Company offers to relocate about sixty rods east and restore the site. Viewing set February 17 and hearing March 9 for objections.
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Elyria
Ohio Quarry Co
Amherst Township
Two Mingh Cases In Common Pleas Court
Elyria January 25 The case of H. Bliss versus James Eglin was filed in the Common Pleas court on appeal from Wellington township Justice of the Peace docket. The rent claimed on land in Huntington township amounts to 80.72 dollars. Lorain County Savings & Trust Co. obtained a judgment of 2117.00 dollars against Wm White et al in Judge Redington’s court.
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Elyria
H. Bliss
James Eglin
Common Pleas Court
L. A. Johnson
Wellington Township
Huntington Township
Lorain County Savings & Trust Co
Wm Whitelaw
Redington
Tragic Coast to Coast Fires and State Bank Resignation
In Dayton Mrs. Noah Carroll 47 and daughter Katherine 17 perished when Mrs. Carroll tried to ignite a stove with gasoline in Thresher near Piqua. In Columbus Ira R. Pontius state superintendent of banks resigned to Governor Davis effective by February 1. In Newark Mrs Edna Emmerts of Zanesville robbed of purse containing $11 in a common pleas court room during an arraignment.
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Dayton
Noah Carroll
Katherine
Thresher
Piqua
Columbus
Ira R. Pontius
Banks
Davis
Newark
Edna Emmerts
Zanesville
Common Pleas
Resignations Demanded In Ohio School Scandal Case
LA GRANGE, Jan. 25. The La Grange school board dismissed Superintendent O. T. Jacobs after finding he maintained improper relations with Miss Helen M. Hutton, a 20 year old sixth grade instructor from Jeanette, Pa. Both were urged to resign and left service. The affair, tied to a prior hiring and a series of rumors, prompted a board meeting and the continuation note to Page 7.
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Elyria
la Grange
O. T. Jacobs
LaGrange
Helen M. Hutton
Jeanette
Jacobs
Hutton
Wellington
Russia Township
McKean
Miss Hutton
State Normal School
Kent
Hall of Learning
Abeetee
le Grangs
Mins Hutton
Protest Early School Hours In Elyria
A communication to the Elyria Board of Education requests starting first graders at 9 o clock instead of 9 30 in Miss Mantil's Garford room. Mothers say children need more rest. The board postponed action, cautioning impact on other schools and recalling a wartime trial that proved unsatisfactory.
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Elyria
Board of Education
Horse Shoe Inn 15 Destroyed by Fire
Elyria report: a fire destroyed the Horse Shoe Inn numbered 15 on January 25. No injuries reported as firefighters battled the blaze and secured the site. Official investigation underway to determine cause and assess damages.
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Horse Shoe Inn
Prices Down As Grocer Reports Cheaper Food
Elyria sees general grocery price cuts with examples from last week. A grocer notes Ten lbs sugar at 88 cents and two pounds navy beans for 20 cents, totaling 1.93, versus August last year when ten lbs sugar was 2.80 and beans 45 cents. Fire destroys the Wholller resort, causing property damage and many Elyrians suffer losses. cause unknown.
May Change Number of Senatorial District But Not the Territory
Elyria Jan 25 A joint resolution introduced in the senate would reduce the number of this senatorial district from 27 to 24 while keeping the counties the same. Lorain Medina Ashland and Richland counties remain included and would be unaffected if the legislation passes.
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Elyria
Senate
Lorain
Medina
Ashland
Richland
Rival Candidates Urging Friends To Vote For Third Man on Ballot
In Elyria on January 25 James Smith and A B Taylor with Dr C H Cushing named as candidates for president of the Chamber of Commerce. Taylor and Cushing say they cannot devote needed hours to run the chamber while Taylor attends Lorain County Bank and Trust matters and Cushing cites inability to care for city sick and chamber welfare. It is generally conceded that a man named Smith would be next president, since neither Taylor nor Cushing wish the honor.
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Elyria
James Smith
A.B Taylor
C. H. Cushing
Candeyites
Chamber of Commerce
Cushing
Taylor
Cosling
Smith
Chamber Commerce
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MT. Union College
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Edward Everett Hale
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Germany
Rev
Flammer
F. A. Stetson
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Clark
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