Rioters Burn Down Customs House Amid City Turmoil
Rioters set fire to a customs house as clashes flare across the city. Refugees crowd streets toward suburbs while smoke darkens the waterfront and heavy fighting continues in waterfront districts.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1921
Page
9
Rioters set fire to a customs house as clashes flare across the city. Refugees crowd streets toward suburbs while smoke darkens the waterfront and heavy fighting continues in waterfront districts.
Mrs. Wallace Strait Schultz formerly the Princess Troubetskoy of Russia, famed as France’s Red Cross nurse, claims her marriage to Captain Schultz was a mistake and plans to sue for divorce in San Francisco. Schultz allegedly accused her of having a husband shortly after marrying. she asserts his knowledge of her prior spouse’s death in action.
Norwalk reports Richard McMann, Wakeman pool room proprietor, robbed of 50 dollars. Edison contributes to a Milan fund. Erieco hosts annual Sunday school convention in Milan on June 5. Otto Smith, 27, injured by a 22 caliber gunshot. hospital relapse. A F P Gehring of Oberlin becomes Monroeville schools superintendent. Marriages listed include Fred Koch Bandusky and Marie Sprow Monroeville.
An advertisement for Peterson's Ointment claims a full refund if it fails to cure conditions including eczema running sores ulcers and itchy skin. A testimonial from F. E. Root of Buffalo New York cites 11 years of leg sores and successful treatment without amputation. Mail orders filled by Peterson Ointment Co Inc Buffalo New York.
Walter Lindsey becomes manager of BL & Fink Furniture in Willard after Carl Sage is killed when the store elevator collapses. Barter Trever, 78, Civil War veteran and former businessman, dies at Lima. A barber cyclist is fatally injured after a bicycle crash with a car. Secretary W J Bascom of Hur- appears in fragmented report.
Belmont county farmers unite to form a livestock shipping company with bases in Flushing Barnesville and Belmont. Cattle from these towns will be shipped by the new cooperative to markets.
The ad claims Howard's Buttermilk Cream transforms dull lifeless complexions and smooths rough hands and arms with no shine or grease. It promises quick disappearance of wrinkles puffiness and sun wind damage and urges purchase at drug or toilet counters or to send 10 cents for a trial package.
The Lorain County Mortgage and Title Co. seeks to increase capital stock from 100000 to 590000. Secretary and manager George H Chamberlain says the move signals prosperity for Elyria institutions as the firm prepares for more business. Directors include leading Elyria and Lorain businessmen. Additional stock offered first to existing stockholders.
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June 2 Bert Brown, a farmer from Sandusky township, was attacked by an angry bull and suffered painful injuries while tending his farm.
The report notes hundreds of ministers are among graduates and pins the college’s demise on absent transportation facilities. It states the town lies six miles from a railroad, highlighting isolation as a key factor.
C. Kennard, head of poultry nutrition investigations at the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry in Indianapolis, will head the poultry department at the Ohio Experiment Station after July first. He succeeds W. J. Buss who resigned, while no head for the animal industry department has been chosen yet. The consolidation of nutrition and animal industry was delayed by Carmichael court action until the Court of Appeals allowed the board of control to establish the new department.
Franklin college, 103 years old in Harrison county, will no longer be part of the village public school system. It offered last year due to funds. The village may lease its main building and gym for a $15,000 debt, with the high school using facilities, while the college focused on ministry courses.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported favorably the nomination of Jacob Gould Schurman of New York as minister to China. Senator Johnson, who had objected, was absent during the committee action.
Cincinnati businessman R J Drennan was robbed at gunpoint yesterday within a half block of Newark Ohio police station. He lost 67 dollars before the thief escaped.
Adolph Shields of Clarksburg West Virginia reports relief from Saint Vitus Dance symptoms after using Nerv Worth Two bottles improved his nervous condition and stomach trouble noting the medicine acts quickly and offers a refund if the first bottle fails Sold by leading druggists Salad and recommended by C W Phillips
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