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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
6
A tank car exploded at Memphis causing a fierce blaze that leveled a block of tenement houses. At least fifteen Black workers were killed and fifty injured as gasoline vapors ignited, with the blast at 7:40 a.m. and fires causing substantial property damage.
Pittsfield residents share family events and visits including a January birth Dorothy Agnes to Mr and Mrs Walter Bullock and a January birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Ray Brasee. Community members attend oyster supper at Fred Dunham home in Oberlin and host week end visitors from Oberlin and Wellington.
Dated events include funeral services for Noah Hamlin with Rev Endly officiating and the death of B. S. Underhill formerly of LaForte. Social news mentions Poultry Show attendance by Thomas Croft, illnesses of Emily Welton and May Rhoads, visits by Mrs. Nora Worthington and Mrs. Alfred Hopkins, and Ladies Aid activities with Mrs. G. B. Reisinger. Also noted is Harold C. Dannell's Elyria High School graduation and an ad for children's white leggings at C. H. Merthe & Co.
The report notes Prof Loenshal at Oberlin advocates a German language class for women. It cites rising female workforce participation worldwide with 100 million women voters, British railways employing 10,000 female clerks, and married women increasingly entering business in Japan. It highlights heiresses Isabel Dodge and Mrs James Cromwell at Dodge plant leadership, and mentions 20 women chauffeurs to France for Devastated France aid, illustrating shifting gender roles and industrial power dynamics.
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