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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1926
Page
9
The article contends this year will see higher highway tourism and notes improvements in motor cars. It highlights the Cleveland Six automobile and its travel assurances, noting reduced fatigue and greater safety on trips.
An appliance-style summer service ad invites car owners to have major electrical work done. It promises a complete check of starting, ignition, timing, wiring, plugs, battery, and terminals with adjustments and tests. A flat charge of 3 is listed for the service.
A new approach allows proper oiling while the vehicle moves or sits. This eliminates concern over insufficient lubrication on long trips and throughout operation.
A massive driveaway event staged in Cleveland on Thursday May 24 saw about 164 Peerless cars driven by dealers from the Philhurst district. The caravan, organized by the Steel Automobile Company for Peerless Motor Car Corporation, attracted wide attention as police escorted the procession through downtown.
Pittsfield July 6 Thursday evening Miss Florize West birthday surprise at home with cream and cake. Ada Scherburns hosts Ladies Society of Community church Thursday afternoon with visitors from Wellington Oberlin and others. Visits from McCotter family and kin in Kipton and Danube. Ray Brasel hosts noted. Radio installed at Frank Hoot home. Memorial Hospital events and Oberlin mentions recur in local social roundup.
In Defiance Ohio a despondent man who had been divorced from his wife three weeks earlier shot himself on his ex wife’s doorstep, hoping she would grant reconciliation. He died at a nearby hospital. The incident follows a period of marital strife and prompted a community gathering with guests named in attendance.
Miss Maxine Dior returns from a two week visit with Mrs. Art Haines of Lakewood and Mrs. A. Jenkins of Cleveland. Numerous local residents and visitors are listed with trips to Elyria Vermilion Put-in-Bay Cleveland and Amherst. The piece closes with May unemployment figures from Britain.
George Virgil McLendon of Gordon Alabama will attend Emory University next September carrying his mother Mrs Virgil Melen dep McLendon who was vice president of the Houston County high School seniors at Columbia Alabama They both earned diplomas together and the mother who once tutored her son also aided his schooling despite travel each day. Lavena Seales Glascock County teacher announces candidacy for Georgia governor with a platform for roads schools teachers and crime curb. Dr Andrew Fr Montague, a striking Roosevelt double, declines a movie offer.
The vice president of Mercer University Montague was suggested for a Paramount film role. He sent a photographed reply but said duties at Mercer prevent him from accepting if chosen. The note references Roosevelt and a Georgia signer document sold in New York for £25.60, with Attorney General commentary on authenticity.
The attorney general considers legal steps to recover a Georgia paper once owned by the state from December 21 IST1. The will of Joseph Stanley of Chatham County, probated December 24 1871, recently surfaced in New York amid broadcasts it had been in state files as recently as 15 years ago.
A terse local notice cites the Maneingentary being scolded by the Rosenbach Company, an art house, over a Fourth of July project titled Toy Balloons and a stated amount of $25,400. Contact number 2729 is listed.
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