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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1929
Page
7
City Auditor Alex C Behrkeman observed Mary the cat basking on 567 Broad Street as passersby offered gentle touches and kind words. The scene drew several locals including Lee Wadsworth and Russell Rosenberry with his daughter Patricia, all showing ordinary acts of care.
La Grange reports a busy social week with visits from Miss Irene Foster on an Erie outing near Willoughby and Mrs. Reid Biggs of Penfield hosting a La Grange visitor. Mrs. Charles Basore and son Thomas joined Lorain relatives at the Underhill home while Mrs. Vernon Rundle and others attended a movie in Elyria.
A spread of social happenings includes visits by Edwin and Edwin Oodske of Newark to Mrs. W. C. Martin, picnics by The Gleaners of MRE church at the Sprague home, and August meeting plans for Mrs. Leigh Monosmith. Weddings occur with Maynard Hammer and Miss Treva Lewis joining in ceremony July 12, while Mrs. W. H. Knowles extends her Lakewood visit as her daughter recuperates. Community dinners, church events, and travel to Elyria and Michigan mark a busy period with numerous visitors and hostesses.
The Your Own Stock Company presents Lilac Time at the Rialto Theatre this week with a lavish romantic drama production featuring Jane Cowl and authentic costumes. Starting next Sunday they move to George Kellys The Show Off, a Pulitzer Prize winning American drama.
Four members of the original stage cast appear in the all talking version at the Capitol Theatre. Raymond Hackett portrays the brother attorney Myra Hampton is cast as the hard boiled chorus girl Adrienne D Ambricourt appears as the French maid and Mary Doran also stars in the Bayard Veiller murder drama.
Willard Mack returns to acting in his own talking picture The Voice of the City after a long break. Once a screen star, he spent six years writing and had not pursued stage acting, but when casting the detective Biff the role mirrored Mack, tempting him back to the screen.
Florence D Richard, state president of the Women Christian Temperance Union, announced Toledo WC T U chapter that the government has appropriated 50000 for a national poster advertising campaign. National enforcement agents, the Anti-Saloon League and the WC T U will jointly direct the campaign.
Doyle proves his innocence in the final scene, allowing Mack to portray a conscientious police officer at his best. The Voice of the City is a Cosmopolitan production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer now showing at the Rivoli Theatre.
Three Waillsboro youths, Thomas Bridge, Davis Riley, and Wesley Quimby, report sighting a huge serpent or fish at the Boquet river mouth. The incident revived local legend of the Lake Champlain sea serpent, long debated since Champlain’s 1609 account.
The Nevin bus line running Pittsburgh to Detroit via Youngstown was ordered to appear before the Public Utilities Commission to explain noncompliance with state bus regulations. A June 29 crash near Youngstown injured 22 passengers and two drivers on a Detroit bound bus. The report blames J A Irvine of the Pittsburgh terminal for the accident, saying he was inexperienced and unfamiliar with air brakes and the route.
Ned Nelson and his son Jim William, long time residents, have been reunited after 18 years apart. The son, Glenn, was seven when last seen by his father. He served in the navy for seven years. They learned they had been in the same vicinity several times in the past 18 years without knowing each other.
Kenosha Wisconsin Chief of Police Inhn T Sulluan issues an order praising courtesy by officers. The edict states courteous conduct will receive recognition on par with acts of bravery, aligning honors with unusual courage.
The Neh Alliance proposes a city curfew for youths, asking the council to enforce nightly curfews. The group submitted a petition urging a citywide limit on late hours for minors to curb disturbances and promote safety.
In Madras, Conservator Wimbush and party found a full sized tigress under a table in a veranda room during sunset. After misjudging the alarm as a large dog, he halted, retraced, and fired through a roof hole with a rifle, ending the encounter as villagers watched the dramatic scene unfold.
The Imperial Household Department will allocate 900600 yen to acquire land for a new Imperial Villa at Hatsugore mura Miuragun Kanagawa near Tokyo. The Imperial Family already has villas within driving distance, including a seaside villa near Kamakura where Emperor Taisho died and a villa at Lake Hakone in the Hakone mountains.
The article cites global church statistics with sixty thousand ministers and ninety four thousand nine hundred lay preachers worldwide, alongside twelve million members of the Methodist church.
Mrs Irene Slavin reports stop 14 A Mayfield Hall Cleveland Ohio that Konjola cured her indigestion nervousness and bodily pains after a two week treatment. The medicine is sold in Elyria Ohio at Phillips drug store and by major druggists in the area.
The Pittsburgher reports a New York to Pittsburgh passenger train derailed after colliding with three box cars left on the main track at Hillside near Derry. Engineer Ben Evans of Pittsburgh was crushed to death beneath his locomotive.
An overturned locomotive, a club car and four sleepers toppled in a crash. Passengers were severely shaken but no injuries were reported.
The United States produces matches with an annual value around twenty five million dollars. Industry output highlights the scale of daily manufacturing and domestic supply. Key firms and workers support a steady output across multiple states.
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