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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1932
Page
7
A 1932 Front Porch Campaign editorial argues citizens deserve leaders who address fundamental economic problems beyond prohibition views. It urges party leaders to study economics, energize discussion, and benefit the nation. Humorous jests about cops, hitchhikers, and a stock broker punctuate the era’s wit.
A compendium of anniversaries and birthdays notes figures from history. It records Marshall MacMahon and others born or died, 18th to 19th centuries figures,Today in history entries, and a list of contemporary birthdays including Dr Mary E Woolley and Carl E Milliken with brief identifiers.
In Elyria many tramps pass through this summer with record lodging requests at the police station and large freight car seems numbers. Local contractors struggle to hire reliable labor as the Murray Ridge school project seeks funding and land offers stall. Oberlin Church votes to deny chapel use by Oberlin College officials, a tight 66 to 63 margin.
European leaders urge steep cuts in German reparations and ask the United States to reduce its war debts. US officials vow to resist canceling obligations tied to Liberty bonds, urging a nonpartisan, nationwide discussion to settle debt and restore global trade confidence.
The editorial urges testing national sentiment on repealing the eighteenth amendment by a straight vote on the issue alone. It notes the primacy of economic concerns like bread over beer and cites a Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform stance against endorsing Roosevelt.
A miscellany of satirical quips and humorous observations. Topics include politics with a defeated candidate seeking a recount, kitchen independence, workplace zingers, religious and social anecdotes, youth reflections by the sea, and efficiency jokes. Notable lines poke at preachers, clerks, economizing, and urban excess.
Lorain County highways total only 52000 instead of 180000. One thousand Odd Fellows paraded through Elyria streets in the state convention grand street pageant. Painesville won next year’s convention host. The new steamer Harry Colby at American Shipbuilding docks was ruined by a 2000 fire likely started by a discarded cigarette, as it prepared for a float trip next week.
Britain totals 20000 tennis courts with hundreds more private facilities in London parks. The sport grows steadily this summer with equipment demand called phenomenal by dealers and a strong revenue picture from public courts in Birmingham. Grass courts decline as hard surfaces rise, while play times shorten due to showers.
In Granville New York two old friends Charles E. McFadden eighty one and F Aaron Goodspeed sixty nine died on the same day at Emma Laing Stevens Hospital. The men who had been friends for fifty years entered the hospital on the same day.
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