American Plane Conquers the Atlantic Pathfinder to Rome from Santander
In Santander Spain on July 10 the American fliers Roger Williams and Lew A. Yancey launched the Pathfinder toward Rome, after refueling and a rest break following an ailing fuel reserve. They plan flight across Spain to Marseilles then Rome, aiming for about 1,000 miles. Crowds gathered as autographs were signed and a delegation of women gifted flowers. Williams and Yancey anticipate a seven hour crossing, with plans to showcase a new aircraft design for future direct flights to Rome.
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Santander
Spain
Roger Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Pathfinder
Rome
Old Orchard
Italy
Yellow Bird
Paris
Williams
Yancey
Alberica Field
Marseilles
Wous Williams
Here
Mediterranean
United Press
Maine
eEhip
Life of Mrs. Alex Schilleman in Elyria
The obituary notes Mrs. Alex Schilleman, born in Grafton to parents on a farm, married at 21, lived in Cleveland a year, then moved to Elyria where she resided ever since. A longtime Republican executive committee member, she led the City Women’s Republican Club for four years, served as Elyria Women’s Club vice president, and belonged to the Humane Society and the Ohio Society for the Protection of Song and Insect Eating Birds. She attends First Congregational Church and pursues pai1nec activities with a childhood aim of saleslady.
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Alex Schilleman
Grafton
Cleveland
Elyria
Lorain County
Republican Executive Committee
City Women's Republican Club
Elyria Women’s Club
The
Humane Society
Ohio Society For the Protection of
First Congregational Church
Three Soloists For Friday Concert At Ely Park
The City band under conductor Gerald M. Franks announces three soloists for Friday evening at Ely park. Mrs. Frank Makels from Lorain will sing, Joe Miller plays accordion, and James Davidson from Avon will perform on the xylophone. A new bandstand has been erected for summer concerts, with permission from the park board to be removed on September first.
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Ely Park
Gerald M. Frank
Frank Mackels
Lorain
Joe Miller
James Davidson
Avon
Park Board
Hear Claims On Millard Road Project
Hearing on claims for the Hill iard road is held this afternoon in the Board of County Commissioners office. Outcomes will affect the 100 foot right of way boulevard connecting Elyria and Hilliard road in Cuyahoga county. Damages claimed total 55000 to 60000, potentially slowing progress. Elyria has consented to the right of way. Avon Village consent expected but not yet received.
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Hilliard Road
Board of County Commissioners
Elyria
Cuyahoga County
City of
Avon Village
Harold M Bailey Believed Dead After Rocky River Search
Cleveland July 10 police and fire squads dragged the Rocky River below the Lorain road bridge for Harold M Bailey 24 an advertising salesman for Bryants Weeklies believed to have leaped to death from the bridge a note in the car said this day I decided to take my life by jumping off the Lorain avenue bridge his sister Eleanor 16 said he was in Rochester Ohio for a few days and his mother asked the investigation be abandoned a notebook carried the line we are but puppets controlled by fate and the note cited no motive for the act.
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Cleveland
Harold M. Bailey
Rochester
Rocky River
Lorain Road Bridge
Bailey
Eleanor
Ohio
Henrietta Bailey
Lieut
Gideon
Cleveland. O
Lorain Arenus
Bryants
Lorain Avenue
Bricklayer Falls to His Death in Copley High School
Phillip Heffier, 65, a Pittsburgh brick mason employed by Laird Construction Co., died after a fall while working on the new Copley high school. Hefell from a scaffold today, with Abhta Bala noted in the ledger.
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Copley
Phillip Heffier
Pittsburgh
Copley High School
Heffier
Laird Construction Co
Abhtabala
British admiralty ponders H-47 loss in Irish Sea collision
July 10 reports say the submarine H-47 sank after colliding with L-12 while returning from maneuvers in the Irish Sea. Twenty one or twenty two men were believed aboard. rescue efforts by naval vessels and planes were launched, but morale dampened as authorities warned few if any survivors remained.
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London
Admiralty
St. George’s Channel
New York-Liverpool
Irish Sea
Rodney
Thanet
Plymouth
Arran
Manuvers
A. V. Alexander
R. J. Gardner
Sydney Cleburne
Charles Bull
Arthur Sampson
St. David’s Head
Milford Haven
Lake Cities Invaded by “Soldiers” Insect Plague
Cleveland reports a mass invasion of harmless yet highly annoying mayflies nicknamed Canadian soldiers. Windy lake shore areas filled downtown with insects glittering under lights. auto radiators clogged as millions swarmed and dropped dead after brief surface activity. Larvae live underground for years before surfacing to mate and die within a day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ccleveland
Lake Shore
Grandstand collapse injures 114 at North Dakota fair
Fargo report notes 114 injured when a grandstand section gave way at the state fair causing noncritical injuries and several fractures. Rescue completed in ten minutes as hundreds fell into a pit. panic lasted moments and investigators begin examining the cause. In Columbus, Ohio, a motion to postpone Dr. James H. Snook trial from July 22 to September cites public mood and need for defense time. hearings set for tomorrow. Miss Theora Hix was killed in the related case after Snook, once a professor, confessed and later recanted.
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Fargo
N. D
Columbus
James H. Snook
Theora Hix
Ohio State University
Common Pleas Court
Snook
E. Q. Ricketts
John F. Seidel
M. S. Seyfert
John H. Berry
Athens
George W. Heffner
Circleville
Miss Hix
Love Nest
Search for drowned boy Ernest Wash continues in Black River
The body of ten year old Ernest Wash, drowned in the Black River, will be sought until recovered. Firemen police and Legion members, plus private helpers, conducted searches yesterday and today as the river dropped, raising hopes. Fifteen or more searchers scoured from a disposal plant downstream two miles, with more to go until surface emergence or snagged debris reveal the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Wash
Black River
James A. Hewitt
American Legion
Woman Hit by Auto Fractures Leg on Oberlin Road
Gladys McCullough aged 25 of 335 Oberlin Road was struck while crossing Oberlin road at West avenue and suffered a fractured leg Tuesday. She was with her mother Mrs H B McCullough when an auto driven by a Keokuk, Iowa man sideswiped her and knocked her to the pavement. The injured woman was taken to the Elyria Clinic and her condition was not serious.
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Oberlin Road
West Avenue
Gladys McCullough
Miss McCullough
H. B. McCullough
J. Buss
Keokuk
Iowa
Buss
Elyria Clinic
Boy Joins 4-H Clothing Club in Ridgeville
Merton Mason, 11, of Ridgeville, becomes the county's sole 4-H Clothing club member. He cited future independence and sartorial knowledge as reasons, telling Miss Wilma Bonar that he might prefer a cooking club if available, and noting his father Frank Mason is a deputy county granger.
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Merton Mason
Ridgeville
Wilma Bonar
Merton
Frank Mason
Auto Driver Fined $100 After Trial
Stewart Wilkins of 412 Fifteenth street was fined 100 dollars plus costs, and prohibited from operating an automobile for sixty days, after a police court trial lasting about three hours. He pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated following a collision with a street car on West Bridge street.
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Stewart Wilkins
Fifteenth Street
Wilkins
West Bridge Street
Report Thirty Killed In Landslide
London report says an exchange telegraph dispatch from Tokio states thirty people were killed when a landslide swept a Kagoshima fishing village into the sea. Heavy rains over the past week caused the slide.
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London
Exchange
Tokio
Kagoshima
Busy City Council Passes Eight Measures in 35 Minutes
A swift city council meeting approved eight ordinances and resolutions in under half an hour. The tentative 1930 budget totals 332000, up about 53000 from 1929, plus funds for the new sewage plant and reduced year-end balances. Public hearings were held, two sidewalk repair ordinances were adopted, Band concert funds and a health department auto purchase were authorized, the Hilliard road project received unanimous consent, and expenses for engineer A A Berger related to the sewage plant were approved.
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Solons
Broad Street
Cedar Street
Hast Avenue
Chestnut Street
Middle Avenue
West Avenue
Court Street
Gulf Road
Hayes Avenue
Health Department
Hilliard Road
Roosevelt Avenue
A. A. Berger
Cleveland
New York State
Canada
Liston to Be Paroled for Check Without Funds
Columbus reports the Ohio Board of Clemency has recommended parole for W. S. Liston, jailed since June 22, 1928 in Lorain County for passing bad checks. He drew local interest with a plan to build a chain of tourist hotel camps near Elyria, vanished after issuing several worthless checks, was captured, brought back, and sentenced.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Clemency
W. S. Liston
Lorain County
Liston
Oberlin Road
Elyria
Sudden Deaths From Weather Toll Reported in Ohio
Four drownings and two heat related deaths from yesterday's warm stormy weather across Ohio. Bridgeport men Charles Beegle age 30 and W O Smith age 32 electrocuted at Piney Fork substation near Steubenville when lightning struck the building. Joseph Connors of Wheeling unconscious but revived at Martins Ferry hospital. Durstin Phillips age 43 a Rising Sun farmer collapsed in a field from sunstroke. Drownings include Milan Wigus 18 at Big Springs, Donald Hartline 15 at Springfield Lake in Akron, William Faber 18 in Dayton at Cance Race West Carrollton.
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Ohio
Charles Beegle
W. O. Smith
Bridgeport
Piney Fork
Ohio Power Company
Steubenville
Joseph Connors
Wheeling
Martins Ferry Hospital
Durstin Phillips
Milan Wigus
Big Springs
Donald Hartline
Akron
Springfield Lake
William Faber
Dayton
West Carrollon
Governor Will Review Troops Camp Perry Ohio
Governor Myers Y. Cooper will arrive for a post inspection and review of Ohio National Guard units from Cleveland and Toledo and the 112th Medical Regiment of Columbus at Camp Perry. Brig. Gen. L. S. Connely leads plans for his entertainment with an official reception and athletic program.
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Camp Perry. O
Myers Y. Cooper
Tomorow
Ohio National Guard
Cleveland
Toledo
112Th Medical Regiment
Columbus
L. S. Connely
H. C. Brown
145Th Infantry
148Th Infantry
W. L. Marlin
Cleveland Vegiment
Southern Cross Arrives In London
The Southern Cross piloted by Capt. Charles B. Kingsford Smith landed at Croydon airdrome at 3 20 p m after completing a Australia to London flight from Rome with a 15 and a half day London record broken by about two days. Kingsford Smith was joined by Capt. C T Ulm and crewmembers T H McWilliams and H A Litchfield who previously flew across California to Australia.
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London
Southern Cross
Charles B. Kingsford Smith
Rome
Croydon
Bert Hinkier
Australia
Golf Foursome of County Officials Draws Attention
Insurance plans and comic chaos swirl as Lorain County Commissioners Thomas Peebles Charles Murray and clerk Frank Ellenberger with Deputy Bud Andruss prepare for a golf match at Spring Valley Country Club tomorrow at 1 30 pm. Even the caddie squad Dan Symons Lawrence Webber Jack Warden Bud Rowland adds to the lampooning amid veteran staff skepticism and local coverage plans by Chronicle Telegram.
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Charlies W. Lawrence
Spring Valley Country Club
Thomas Peebles
Charles Murray
Frank Ellenberger
Bud Andruss
Lorain County
Charlie Murray
County Court House
Tom Peebles
Caddie Force
Dan Symons
Lawrence Webber
Jack Warden
Bud Rowland
Ellenberger
Spring Valley
Girl Found Strapped To Mail Box After Abduction
In Biddeford Maine on July 10 17 year old Mary Anne Bisson was found unconscious strapped to a roadside mail box on Louden road five miles from Saco. She said two men abducted her yesterday forced her to a lake area where she was beaten after resisting. She recognized one assailant as a former schoolmate from Detroit who was visiting. She had been tied to the box for about six hours before farmer Henry Gonville found her. Miss Bisson has been active in local church affairs.
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Biddeford
Mary Anne Bisson
Louden Road
Saco
Detroit
Mich
Henry Gonville
Angeleno Aces Endurance Flight Toward 200 Hours
Culver City July 10 The Angeleno biplane pushes toward 200 hours aloft as Mendell and Reinhart, two hard boiled helpers, battle a worn motor in a 176th hour attempt to beat the Cleveland pair’s 174 hour record. They expect to hit 200 hours at 3 30 29 pm Pacific time.
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Culver City
Soren Mendell
R. M. “Pete” Reinhart
Byron Newcomb
Mitchell
Cleveland
Mendell
Reinhart
Angeleno
Texas
Army Balloon Corps
Federal Service
Mexican
Dallas
A. J. Reinhart
Paul Whittier
Slade Hulbert
Hulbert
Pacific Ocean
Man Held for Grand Jury in Fatal Car Crash
A. R. Ewell of Elvira was bound over to the grand jury under $15 bond on a charge of reckless driving after his car struck and killed a three year old girl on June 27 as she ran across the road. The charge was brought by Steve Demich of North Riére Rd, whose daughter died in the incident.
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Priver
A. R. Ewell
Elvira
Steve Demich
North Riére Rd
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Atlantic
Millard Road
Boy
4-H Clothing Club
Auto Driver
Olds
George Rhoads
Murray
Andruss
Eilenberger
Peebles
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