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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1924
Page
6
The Moulton Candies canceled both Fourth of July and Sunday games due to field conditions at Cascade. A Sunday game is scheduled against the Patersons of Sandusky to be played in Sandusky. Players should meet at Cascade at two o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Today a busy schedule includes Queens County Jockey Club at Aqueduct Kentucky Jockey Club at Latonia Niagara Racing Association at Fort Erie Business Men's Racing Association at Chicago trotting Grand Circuit at Cleveland and the French and Canadian amateur golf championships opening at La Boulle.
Sporadic chaos surrounds the AL pennant race as rivals scramble for leads. Connie Mack bides time while Washington surges, drawing national attention and even Congress to the ballpark as fans hope for a pennant, with New York’s Yankees still a highlighted threat.
A condensed list of upcoming and ongoing sports events including rowing at Henley on the Thames, Pacific regattas in Tacoma and San Francisco, motorboat and yachting races in Oshkosh and Tacoma, boxing bouts in London and East Chicago, and track meet cards in Indianapolis and Atlanta, plus a note on racing meetings and amateur championships in Canada and the United States. A separate item notes thousands lose funds monthly to coin-box thefts, with a secret alarm system proposed to trigger at telephone exchanges when tampering occurs.
Only game in the city on the Fourth features Richwies against Avon-on-the-Lake at Riverview Park in the afternoon. A dark horse pitcher is tipped for Richwies as fans anticipate a battlesome clash and a large crowd is expected to witness the skirmish.
Mrs Roy Putt and three children travel with Rev Charles L Doyle to Tiffin Ohio for an indefinite visit and plan to visit Michigan relatives. Poultry Day at Wooster Experiment Station draws attendees from Columbia and Elyria areas. Several local families noted weekend visits, illnesses, and church activities including a Baptist ladies meeting on July 9 and a summer conference for ministers at Delaware.
The St. Louis team beat Cleveland 6 to 4, the Washington club defeated Boston 5 to 0, Detroit won 2 to 1 over Chicago, and Philadelphia lost to New York with a 1 to 0 score.
Sweden boasts of many important industries with vast iron and steel works sugar mills iron mines pulp and paper mills machine factories and the world's greatest match industry. Agriculture and dairying are run business-like and more than half the rural district is electrified.
Miss WM L Campbell hosts a birthday gathering at her home in Pittsfield with relatives and friends from Penfield Wellington and Elyria attending. The event included a luncheon and showcases for family members visiting from Lorain and Camden, with news of repairs and travel plans among attendees. A list of local vendors and groceries featured at the gathering appears among the community notices.
In LaGrange July 3 Mrs Be L Adams notes guests at Dr and Mrs Thomas Bickerstaph home and visits from Elyria and Washington DC. Reports of heavy rain causing crop and property damage near town plus a June wedding of Dewey Deforest Knowles to Ina Sanders at the Knowles home with Rev G M Knapp officiating and attendants Mrs Steger and H Steger.
An old advertisement touts Dr Casey's Marsh root Prescription 777 as a cure for backache moist palms puffy eyelids and eye specks. It claims early kidney trouble signs and promises the tonic benefits of roots and herbs, with C. W. Phillips and druggists guaranteeing the product in liquid or tablet form.
A fragmentary note mentions Mabel and pipes that could stretch toward the equator, suggesting a grand infrastructure project. The readable text is sparse, but implies a distant, ambitious pipe network tied to American cities and a poetic scale.
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