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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1926
Page
12
Rotary and church groups meet weekly across Elyria with card clubs, picnics, and city society events. The Pallas family hold their fifth annual reunion at Oberlin Road, while births, birthdays, and marriage licenses mark local life. Notables include Hugh Gray touring with Walt Sear's orchestra and Charles Guth earning a chiropody degree.
Mr and Mrs James Eady of Detroit visit at the home of Mr and Mrs HOR Dimick of East Avenue. Charles W Mills and Herbert Hanna return to Mount Vernon after a week with Carl Mills. The Misses Emeka Baillome Ethel Zilch and Wilbur Hintz and Robert Kneizel attend a Toast at the lake. The Mills host Margaret Hanna and guests at Cleveland Street. The Kats ters entertain visitors from Lorain and Elyria at their Ver milion on the Lake cottage with Bridge as the highlight. Judy Hamaman visits Vermilion on the Lake. Miss Josephine Harper hosts friends on the Lake Shore. Gindyr Grace and Gertrade McCullough spend yesterday afternoon at Beaver Park. William T Herrick of the Marines Annapolis was weekend guest of the Mills.
Local notes list many residents and visitors from Elyria and nearby towns as they travel to New York, Philadelphia, and Michigan. The column records social visits, dances at Vermilion-On-The-Lake, theater matinees in Cleveland, and several weekend trips, with multiple families and individuals mentioned by name. The piece ends noting the Second Congregational Church picnic at Cascade Park.
Mrs. Mattie Chandler becomes the town’s first female mayor in a California town and takes office pledging no silly reforms. She says Richmond’s conduct is satisfactory and the younger generation’s actions are not a cause for alarm. She turns focus to more serious local matters.
Lincoln Illinois hosts an annual Watermelon Festival recalling the town’s naming in honor of the Civil War martyr Abraham Lincoln. The piece traces Lincoln’s life from a small county town named Postville, 35 miles northeast of Springfield, to county seat status in 1839 and a 1852 railroad arrival.
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A fragment recounts Lincoln assisting a town duo in naming a river village after the future president. Despite warnings that nothing named Lincoln would amount to much, the town bears his name. Lincoln, described as sallow and ungainly, buys two watermelons and performs a playful baptism ceremony with the red flesh in a humorous flourish.
William Grant Webster of Athens, Republican gubernatorial hopeful, toured the city last evening. His platform calls for strict enforcement of laws, simpler state government, strong education and welfare leadership, better roads, and retention of the primary law. Also advertised is the 8 room Prentiss home for sale at 315 Fifth St offered by W. E. Patton with office on 331 3rd Street.
A fragment notes Surinam in Dutch Guiana having the world’s smallest temperature range from 70.0F in summer to 77.5F in winter. It also mentions social laws of China and Denmark Iceland independence status, followed by an ad line for Banjo Mandolin and Guitar with contact details for Rust’s Vaudeville Agency and a claimed musical education offer.
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