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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1926
Page
13
Huntersville North Carolina plans a public drive to obtain subscribers for a new seven day week dial service. After almost a year with only a long distance line in a local store residents form a committee to canvass support.
In St Louis the 150th independence celebration Exposition City takes shape on a 41 acre Forest Park tract. The Greater St Louis Exposition opens September 4 for 16 days and aims to draw over one million visitors. Major Miller backs the project as eight months of work yield a comprehensive pageant ahead of a potential annual exposition.
Promoters and physicians plan a massive exposition with a 75 foot high arch entrance 800 feet long. Presidents are modeled into statues for Presidents Plaza and pavilions for about a thousand booths rise ahead of a bright lighting system. An air route from Washington to Norfolk is to be marked with lighthouse style signals aiding pilots in thick weather.
Dr. W. W. Peet, longtime aid to Near East missions, resumes work as official ambassador of American Protestant churches to Christian churches in the Rear East after a brief furlough in America. Washington dispatch notes his nearly forty years of service and renewed role abroad.
Old Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street in New York faces demolition. Once a venue for Kossuth and Theodore Roosevelt as a boy, it later housed the Metropolitan Museum of Art, then a social hall and Salvation Army social work site. Built in 1840, the landmark's fate underscores a cityscape of change.
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