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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1926
Page
3
Peerless Water Car Corporation opened what appears to be the largest automobile display room in the world. The new showroom on Euclid Avenue houses a full Peerless line on the main floor with ample space around each model and skating rink ambience in the building.
Nash Motor Company reports May production and sales reached a new high, up 44.3 percent over May 1925. E. H. McCarty notes the month marks the twenty first consecutive period of exceeding prior year figures despite 1925 being the largest year in history. Through May 31, shipments exceed January–May totals of last year by 14,419 cars, a pace surpassing last year’s full-year output.
Land Nash Motors built and shipped 101 402 cars in the period from September to May 7. Local social notes from Town Line North detail visits, family gatherings, and community events with numerous Amherst Lorain and Wellington residents attending meetings, church activities, and a club outing.
June 17 afternoon gathering at the home of Mrs L L Jordan hosted by the Ladies’ Society of the Community church. Also notes weekend visits by Miss Sarah Horton to Oberlin, and various local social visits including the Shafer family in Monroe and Wakeman, plus sheep incidents involving LeRoy Louns and Niel Jones visitations.
June 1 local WI C T U members met in the church for a Wednesday afternoon session with a large attendance and a fine program. Mrs Barnes of Wellington described experiences in Turkey, and Roy Phillips of Glendive spoke. a delicious lunch followed. Numerous Akron and Wellington residents visited at the home of B Herbert. guests included members from Akron and Sioux City with health notes on Mrs Garwood Gass.
The Hon. Vincent Massey, a cabinet member, is said to be Canada’s choice for the post of Minister to Washington. A plea to Washington accompanies the report, outlining potential diplomatic leadership for Canada. Elsewhere, a Dixie region threat is noted as sugarcane production faces national pressures.
A word puzzle page asks clues for running across word 12 and various word plays. It includes hints like a branch of arithmetic, a pulling action from a fixer position, and a triped animal, with a solemn word and a bread element as other clues.
An Agriculture Department bulletin reports cane fields in Northern and Western Florida and nearby states are afflicted by mosaic disease. Growers are urged to substitute another cane variety within a few years to prevent widespread infection across the South.
The Boston marriage column reports only sixty four couples filed intentions at City Hall on June 1, far below June 1 counts from 1925 and 1924. June brides and brooms filing trailed last year by about forty- two. A spelling reformer notes twenty one a- sound spellings in English.
The article notes the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will open fall concerts with Beethoven as a season centerpiece honoring the centenary of the Bregt master's death. It mentions a Paris dance hall introducing a mechanical metronome like device to beat time for orchestras. It also reports a reform proposal in Fascist Italy to suppress profane language.
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