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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1930
Page
3
Local veterans in the Elging Legion post boast membership from nearly every unit of the U S forces in World War I. The article highlights broad service across fronts and reflects the wartime contributions of former soldiers. The piece notes unity within the post and pride in collective military record.
Elyria post members served along Belgium France and in Italy and Iberia with Company G of the Sthelia National Guard 120 members 16 joined the Rainbow Division. Hundreds from Elyria and Lorain County helped form four regiments of the 83rd Division. Others served with the 112th Engineers recruited in Cleveland and ambulance units from Oberlin College and Lakeside. The 37th Division with an Elyria company had seen border duty on the Mexicana frontier.
The 83rd Division comprised conscripts and trained at Camp Sherman Ohio. The Ohio division deployed overseas in June 1918 with the 332nd Infantry to Italy and the 329th 330th and 331st regiments to France. Major Roy Hultz of Lorain captained Company B. Colonel James C. MacDermott of Wellington once commanded the 329th in France. Colonel J F Murbach of Elyria led Headquarters Company with Lorain county men in France.
Elyria vendors supplied all furnishings for the Ameorian Legion Memorial Home on Omo Street. Three city firms Glade Thomas Brown Furniture Company Bill Struck Furniture Company contributed, with Lewis Mercantile Company and Welsh Curtain and Rug store handling curtains and draperies for multiple rooms and the auditorium.
Charles A. Persons, head of the West Side Lumber and Coal Company, receives a distinguished honor as a prominent local business figure. The post highlights his leadership role and community impact within the West Side district.
Commander Persons heads Elyria Post No 1e with A R Agate Carl Wolf Edgar Herzog and others named as officers and committee heads The post races toward a 500 member goal by year end while current membership exceeds 300 The Elyria Legion proclaims itself the county s strongest ex servicemen organization.
Elyria Post holds first meeting in its new Ohio street home Tuesday evening with an entertainment program by Pete Dirlam Vincent Gray Eddie Krebs and Dorr Billings. More than 100 new members expected to be initiated. former members urged to report to join the class. Commander Charles A. Persons asks World War veterans not yet members to attend Tuesday to seek reinstatement.
London Jack, long serving at Waterloo Station, will retire soon with honorary retirement and full comforts. He will hand over duties to a younger colleague. the famous shelter dog has raised over $20,000 for needy railroad workers and families. His record for loyalty, rule observance and polite service is praised.
A West Indian chalice cup vine flower, claimed as the first produced in the United States, bloomed this fall at the New York botanical garden marking a significant horticultural milestone observed by staff and researchers.
Fragmentary text notes a factory work on providing machinery for cutting a very hard material, claimed to be the hardest material ever manufactured commercially by a mas. The readable words indicate a focus on steel cutting tools and industrial production at a factory site.
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