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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1934
Page
3
The article cites a housing shortage across cities with millions in substandard housing. It notes 370 000 to 500 000 new homes built in earlier decades, a drop to under 30 000 in 1953, widespread overcrowding, and aging homes. It forecasts a building upturn and higher costs, urging owners to build and repair while bargains persist.
Dr Zook, retiring U S commissioner of education, says federal contributions to public education this year run into hundreds of millions. About 31.5 million came from the Federal Relief Administration, with a 75 million revolving fund set by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Civil Works and Public Works administrations aided school repairs and new buildings, plus beautification. The money was to meet an emergency, not a permanent policy, and some funds aided unemployed teachers.
Foreign correspondents report a Germany law bans telephone talks in any language but German under public assemblies. Police sometimes cut conversations for infringement. Officials say there are always more than two listening. The story elsewhere is troubling rather than amusing.
Huey P. Long seizes control of Louisiana’s legislative process enacting a self-made program including income, cotton exchange, and newspaper ad taxes. He invades committee rooms, rewrites bills, and ensures passage, overpowering rivals and even guiding governors to prevent vetoes. The nation views the spectacle with shame and disgust.
Beetown Wisconsin station owner Erskine L Auel is praised as an honest man after refunding 59 cents to Weldell V Phillips of Milwaukee for 10 gallons of gasoline bought but only seven delivered. Phillips later learned the dealer traced him by car make and color and phone calls to sender details, underscoring Auel as a natural detective.
A scanned collage of morale, crime, economics, and humor items. It notes a counterfeiting seizure totaling £306049, Chicago World’s Fair attendance, measles cases, and a quirky mix of random anecdotes about emperors, milk income, milk, stamps, and a bank clerk’s social role. It also includes jokes about golf, a soldier’s dying words, and dental NRA code quips.
Today’s anniversaries list notable births and deaths across centuries including Royall Tyler born Boston Vermont jurist and playwright and William Makepeace Thackeray born in England. It notes John Frazee Paul Carus Tom L Johnson Samuel Stratton Frank Batt and others with dates. Also Today in History recalls Joan Paul Jones death in Paris and key events from 1870 1881 1914 1982.
A collection of practical tips and quips on domestic chores including starch sugar hints for laundry and ironing care with beeswax, door seals for refrigerators, safe apple cooking practices, roasting guidance, can label vigilance, and miscellaneous jokes about dentists, wealth, Santa Claus, cross words, and prize fighters.
Notable birthdays include Hermann Hagedorn J Pierrepont Moffat Hy Mayer Charles Evans Jr Chick Evans Dr Philipp Hawk Joe Mitchell Chapple Lupe Velez Lord Philip Snowden and others born in New York Rye Indianapolis Mexico and Iowa. The horoscope foresees independent self-willed yet lazy traits with potential pioneering success and risk of estrangement from relatives.
Wellington com reports Roeders Softball team led 9 wins 0 losses at end of first half. In the second half game against M E Church Inds, Roeders built a 5 0 lead before the Methodists rallied to tie and then win 9 to 4 with E Smith pitching. Carmen and Gilletta noted for Roeders.
Mrs Marion Laundon of South Main Street quietly marked her fourth birthday on a Sunday at home. The daughter of Wellington’s first postmaster and mother of the town’s first librarian, she remains active, enjoys crochet and reading, and led the audience in singing “America” during the dedication of her kind and generous heart.
Congressman Don W. Harter of Ohio's 14th District and Democratic renomination candidate will speak to Kiwanis members at the Herrick Auditorium Thursday evening at 6 30 with the topic Legislation Passed at the Last Session of Congress. Reservations via M A Rady.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the former president, attended Harvard's 25th class reunion exercises and received an honorary degree. The report notes Harvard’s lengthy honorary list and mentions Brazil’s vast water power potential, using only a fraction of its resources.
Relief commission delivers government surplus food to Wellington township families on relief rolls. Boxes of smoked meat and 20 pecks of potatoes were distributed immediately. Wellington briefs note visits to Rochester by Miss Betty Bayne and guests of local residents including Mrs. A R Warner and Mrs. Irwin Fisher from Cleveland. The Scott Anderson home on Hamilton Street gains a new shingle remodel and enhances the property. Dr. Robert Pierce of Norwalk buys a Pontiac-8 Coupe. Mrs. George Richardson and daughter Margaret visit the Vischer home in Cleveland.
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