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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1934
Page
4
A fragment notes celestial observations for Monday January 29 with morning and evening planetary listings and a full moon forecast. The text cites a sentiment about credit to another man and includes a literary allusion to Cortez observing the Pacific.
The narrative recalls Vasco Nunez Balboa returning to Darien on the Colombian coast after an exploration that yielded his discovery of the Pacific and his claim of territory for Castile. The tale frames Balboa as a penniless adventurer achieving immortal fame and notes later lore about a severed head ordered by his son-in-law, a detail tangled in schoolboy memory and Keats references.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Raven beginning in Philadelphia and finishing in New York at age 36 while near death from opium and drink. The poem first appeared in a newspaper after a magazine rejected it and paid only a few dollars.
In 1861 the United States Army Camel Corps with 83 camels at Camp Veree Texas joined a 125 head import batch begun in 1857. Planned for Southwest pack trains, the project waned after the war as Texas and locals grew wary of the camels startling livestock and interest faded.
The entry of Kansas in 1861 completed the Union as the 24th state. The motto To the Stars Through Difficulties reflects the era. The Sunflower is the official state flower accompanying the new state’s identity.
A concise list of prominent figures with birth years and roles: Thomas Paine an English buried radical revolutionary. Swedenborg a Swedish philosopher and church founder. William McKinley U.S. president. Romain Rolland French author. Ernest Lubitsch cinema director. Kenneth McKellar Tennessee senator. John D Rockefeller Jr. Mention of Swedenborg's belief and other preface notes.
Local readers are urged to try Natex at Muir's Original Cut Rate Drug Store after John Lapuphan of Copley Ohio reports a month of relief from years of indigestion gas dizziness and constipation. The ad claims Natex is triple strength and developed from nature’s roots and herbs with daily demonstrations at 413 Broad St.
The excerpt blends astrology like lines about birth and fortune with weather folklore and historical anecdotes. It mentions a 1874 birth tied to a father aged 36, a gar net birthstone, a weather forecasting by cricket chirps and storm petrels, and a note on Ephraim Bull’s 37 years of work on the Concord grape.
An advertisement from the Waterloo Gazette and Seneca Advertiser dated Nov 15 1826 quotes whisky at twenty eight cents per gallon as an excellent quality.
In distant regions including Siberia Greenland and the remote back woods of Brazil and South Africa, wizards long ago discovered ventriloquism secrets. The article notes ancient practitioners and hints at a widespread lore across continents.
The text notes imperforated Byrd issue stamps in six block sheets from New York City with first day on February 10. It cites 16 million perforated Byrd Little America stamps printed, stored in a BEP vault, and hints at a second printing. Washington announces a reprint of the cent Lincoln for his birthday. Cartier anniversary cacheted covers will be mailed from event sites with Collector's Magazine promotion. Dixie Flying Service baggage label described for central eastern US use.
A diarist recalls a January day in New York meeting Albert Keller Minnie Vesey and others at the Ritz and Karl Kitchens before visiting Mary Pickford Jane Tibbetts and a starry gathering with John McCormack Erskine and Damrosh.
John Hertz recalls two workmen outside his window discussing in blasphemous fashion a third worker who had just left. One man says he is a blankety blank and adds that he is not the best of them.
Describes Herald Square fading into a quiet triangle at night with memories of green owls on the coping, iron workers, presses, signaling wagons, and the late night snacks of James Gordor Bennett, as the area loses its old bustle and gains a tranquil feel near Trinity Church.
A personal nomination lauds Sinclair Lewis description in Work of Art as the best country hotel depiction. It emphasizes vivid setting and satirical tone, noting how the author names the place and atmosphere with memorable detail.
After his swift exit from Music Hall, Roxy is greeted with strong support from newspapermen and the guild. No other producer has earned such wholehearted acceptance in this field.
The article sketches Howard Chandler Christy, an Ohio-born painter, noting his steady routine and famous pipe. It recalls a past period of blindness and describes Fifth Avenue nocturnal ambience with moonlit cathedral imagery and distant organ music. Christy is portrayed as unchanged over 25 years, continuing his work until late afternoon.
A string of eccentric notes recalls Jacob Ruppert with vast private pensions, Hal Shelley’s travels by air, Yon Nicholson visiting his foster uncle Meredith Nicholson in Paraguay, Roy Howard’s late night newspaper route, Andrew Meyon’s hominy breakfast, playwright George Middleton’s dog and “angry stuff” on the typewriter, George Larrase’s Brown football past, and other idiosyncratic items.
A Bowery resident once feared for his brawl pace. He reduced drinking to a pint daily and now fights only once weekly, marking a shift in the rough neighborhood. The piece notes a lavender dash of color in the era and style of McNaught Syndicate reporting.
Nearly midnight and 10 below zero when a taximan sped to Hartford hospital to win a race with the stork. He failed. Mrs. Alberta Gamble and baby Joyce Elizabeth suffered no ill effects from the cold.
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