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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
7
Dense ad page listing help wanted, real estate, rentals, and houshold services. Includes promissory terms, telephonic charge cautions, and scattered addresses such as 451 Barcyr on and 1493 b. 436 St. Cleveland with items from Miller & Billings Realty to Osbourne Century Block and Marsh & Glover 24 Century Block.
Real estate notices advertise multiple properties including a 12 room house on two acres for $1000 down, new houses on Cleveland Street with gas and furnace, several six room bungalows, suburban homes near the car line, and bargain lots in Eastern Heights with improvements. Listings show agents BAUS & MORGAN and GUST KOLINSKI, with addresses and phone numbers. Legal notices include a divorce petition in Lorain County Court by Sophia Henskee against a Buffalo resident, with hearing set after May 17, 1920.
Rey J. Bronson, matchmaker, announced the Sandusky Business Men's Athletic Association boxing card for Wednesday night at Athletic Hall. Main bout Billy Mercer of Cleveland versus Billy Weeks of Springfield in ten rounds at 150 pounds. Semi final Dave Taylor of Elyria faces Bob Binckley of Toledo in ten rounds at 138 pounds. Curtain lighter Kid Miller of Cleveland faces Ray Braunstein of Sandusky at 110 pounds with Charles E. Large refereeing.
After back to back losses to Ohio State and Ohio Wesleyan Oberlin meets Wooster in local season opener. Wooster fields a competitive but not strong squad and Oberlin won both meetings last season making this game appear evenly matched.
The Court House Rats traveled to Oberlin Thursday afternoon and defeated the college team 2 to 0. Schroeder held the collegians to three scattered hits while Elyria scored both runs in the third inning on a series of bunts.
American League games Cleveland at Detroit on wet grounds. Boston defeated New York 4 to 2 and 3 to 0 with rain shortening a Brooklyn game. National League reports St. Louis at Chicago and Cincinnati at Pittsburgh hit by wet grounds. Philadelphia beat Washington 9 to 6. American Association Louisville at Toledo and Indianapolis at Columbus were affected by rain, while Milwaukee beat Minneapolis 4 to 0 and St Paul defeated Kansas City 8 to 1. College baseball Western Reserve vs Pittsburg in Pittsburg was rained out with other rain affected contests including Fordham 4 Dartmouth 3 Yale 7 Johns Hopkins 6 Vermont 1 West Virginia 0 and Ohio Northern vs Defiance called off.
Philadelphia May 1 heavy rain disrupted opening events at the University of Pennsylvania relay carnival but fair weather was forecast for today. The cream of American college athletes and Oxford Cambridge stars are entered, with 41 events on the closing day. The two mile college relay championship of America features Oxford Cambridge runners against the fastest half-milers in the United States.
Cambridge May 1 weather forecast and clear skies promise favorable conditions for the triangular regatta on the Charles River basin this evening. The Harvard Princeton and Pennsylvania varsity crews race over a mile and seven-eighths course in the early part of the evening.
New York report recounts Capt Claude R Collings proposal to join Ruth Phillips of Kansas City in a Mars mission via a Goddard style rocket. He outlines feasibility questions, speed, oxygen needs, and risks while defending the imaginative leap to astronautics.
Approval of 1,000,000 and 500,000 for school building contracts. Electric show set for May 20. Mrs Elizabeth Thomas, 63, longtime resident, died. Police search fails for missing Anna Byara, 16. Johnny Klesch meets Taylor in Massillon boxing May 6. Civil Service halts city health staff pay awaiting eligibility lists. Gingham and overall dance held. Mrs P B Blair donates blood in Bellefontaine. Alex Hart and Jimmy Katz box in Norwalk May 5. Mayor Graft warns street protests barred. indoor meetings allowed. Lakeview Park nearing completion with bathhouse. Rabies outbreak feared. several dogs under surveillance. State examiners audit city books for six weeks. H R Rogers appointed manager of Citizens’ Gas & Electric Co. Nickle Plate train crash near drawbridge causes delays. Hugh Hogan loses eye from BB gun. hospitalized. Emergency vessels leave for cargo, awaiting seaport designation.
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