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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1923
Page
15
On July 13 1923 the Executive Committee urged nonpartisan elections to keep courts free of party bias but the full Bar Association rejected the plan. The piece argues voters favor the Committees stance amid rising government role and partisan tensions affecting judicial fairness.
The piece argues that low wheat prices stem from underconsumption by a world unable to pay for bread. It warns that even with ample American grain, global poverty and famine will drag down prices, harming farmers while highlighting the link between national wealth and others' hardship.
A 1923 Harvest Moon collage questions Europe’s recovery and American farmer welfare. The speaker warns prosperity hinges on stable markets and global cooperation, urging action before it is too late while poking fun at political grandstanding and travel tales.
A compact roll of historical notes from 1843 to 1919 lists John Rowan’s death in Louisville, 1848 Oregon Congregational Association, 1866 Empress Carlotta’s departure, 1873 Don Carlos in Spain, 1890 John C Fremont’s death, 1896 Wilfrid Laurier’s Canada premiership, 1900 Tientsin bombardment, 1919 Pershing at Paris, plus today’s birthdays: Sidney Webb George Omwake Hoffman Philip and Ty Woolley.
Women in the region express anger as cherry crop prospects waver amid national politics. The text notes a year minus the Democratic convention and Henry Ford's involvement with a party on shifting loyalties.
Today Friday the thirteenth is seen as unlucky but some view it as lucky. It marks the sixtieth anniversary of New York's draft riots, a bloody city chapter. President Harding arrives in Seward after a Gulf crossing aboard Henderson. Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies begin their summer conference in East Northfield, Mass. Rainbow Division Veterans' Association reunion opens in Indianapolis with Gen Gouraud as guest.
Jim Armitage notes a family returning from vacation with small mishaps. Milk bottles moved, cellar light left on, and a porch look like a bowling alley. Fathers pride in a tan fades as bills arrive and plans shift to routine. Summer engagements are teased by the daughters.
A damaged passage presents poems about love and transience by Penny Bysshe Shelley. It interweaves themes of shattered lamps, fading music, and doomed nests with reflections on weathered hearts and mortality. Also included are stray notes about pheasant powder puffs, swan farms, and harvest details, forming a jumbled mix of literary and stray industrial mentions.
A writer reflects on the value of hitchhiking across the Berkshires and western New York. He recalls two tramps, Whitey and Old Pete, sharing hard luck tales and republican views on labor and society. The piece contrasts dignity and vice among migratory laborers and condemns perpetual loafers while affirming a worker’s country ethic.
Mr. Jenks of the American Surety Company reports a Midwest survey finding no real doom in business. He notes sound basic conditions, cautious activity, and no anticipated buyers' strike, with banks financing solid enterprise amid steady manufacturing and merchandising.
A 45 year old local summary notes wool prices from 44 to 47 cents per pound. It records injuries from a pony runaway involving Stella Cunningham, Grace Cunningham, and a girl Todd, plus county marriage licenses 308, with 25 by Dane, 696 births and 319 deaths in the year ending July 1. The old town clock was repaired and Cal Waggler’s Menetrels performed at the opera house as a Lake Shore railroad strike isolated the town.
Charles W Pugsley of Lincoln Nebraska resigns as assistant secretary of agriculture to become president of the South Dakota College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. Born 1878 in Woodbine Iowa, he is a Nebraska graduate and former state statistician and leader in farm extension work. He will assume his new duties September 30.
A vintage ad promotes Wendell's Pills Ambition Brand from C. W. Phillips. It claims to ease nervousness and tiredness caused by overwork or smoking, promising better vision in three days with a money back guarantee, and offers relief for nervous indigestion and sleeplessness.
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