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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
10
Obed Miller chairs executive board meeting in Berlin selecting a sub committee for Penal Committee matters. The change aims to streamline oversight and set agenda items for upcoming sessions.
A Pittsburgh mother testifies she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before and after her baby's birth. She says it steadied her nerves, aided nursing, and she recommends the product to friends as a safe tonic made from medicinal roots and herbs.
A report discusses cooperative actions with other groups to visit state institutions at intervals. It notes the Van Bard trial and the Welfare Director’s demand that Delaware’s next matron be an Ohio wife and married, calling the rule absurd. The committee hopes to spur public demand for depoliticizing the Welfare Department.
July 26 a meeting of canvassers for the Chautauqua course tickets was held at the Business Car rooms. Mrs P G Worcester heads the southwest section J D Yocum the northwest Mrs W D Hobbs the northeast and MD Wocket the southeast. House to house canvassing proceeds as attendance is expected to exceed previous records due to attractions music and lectures. The tent will be on the old chapel site on the campus.
Seventy five Woodland avenue residents a picnic on Prof Chapin's lawn. A cafeteria supper followed with sandwiches meat loaf potato salad ice cream cake and coffee. The program featured pantomime and moving picture signs advertised a slate of local acts and upcoming shows at the Baxters. Local businesses offered sales and the town noted eight little girls performing on Woodland Avenue street scene.
A mixed local page reports on performances at the Apollo including a parody film The Coquette and musical acts by school groups and radio from Cleveland. Oberlin personals note visits from relatives in Elim street and nearby towns, a house sale on West College street, and upcoming Leauge of Women Voters events. The Jewels of the Farm club forms with 25 girls meeting biweekly to sew under Mrs. Bartholomew and helpers.
Raymond Coffman visited from Cleveland for the weekend with his wife at Mrs. Mary Dawley’s home, then returned. Myron Ross buys Clarence Easterwood’s small farm and plans fall possession. Ione Cole visits relatives in Berea. Numerous local families hosted guests and traveled to Ashland, Cleveland, and Chippewa Lake. Stone road west of the center progresses, with next Sunday’s Industrial Missions at Home and Abroad announced. A unique surprise party was noted.
Mrs E. E. Macs hosted a birthday event for her son Johnny Rose with guests arriving in the afternoon. After a surprise moment during a neighbor errand, games, refreshments, and gifts followed as relatives and friends from nearby towns attended including Olin Durkee Theodore Carpenter Wesley Carpenter Walter units Russell Cook and others.
George Allingham, 65, died after being crushed beneath debris while reading about his nephew James Kelly's lightning death. The Morris Steel Company boarding house at 72 Plum Street was wrecked, trapping Allingham and Mars Oswald, owner of the boarding house, with Arnold Broening rescued but injured. Firemen recovered Allingham’s body as the wall collapsed amid the crash.
A demure young woman wins a young man's heart by evoking memories of his mother in a witty modern magic tale. The performance blends charm and sentiment as memory and illusion sway romance.
A fragment describes a maiden captivating a man, the story contrasts romance with a symbolic Mexican flag and a nostalgic view of California’s cession to the United States. The text hints at cultural imagery and a love triangle set against historical themes.
The article notes the last performances of Anne Tike in Woman's Hate and Paul Rainey in Heart of the Jungle with a complete program change planned for tomorrow. West Virginia implements a two cent gasoline tax as the retail price rises from 24 to 26 cents per gallon in Charleston.
The new gasoline tax is becoming effective and is estimated to yield about $700,000 each year.
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