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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1936
Page
6
Building Inspector Hart Dickasen issued permits this week for two home remodeling projects. C G Strean at 906 East Avenue will alter a one story house and garage, estimated at 2000 dollars. Dr J Birkbeck at 324 Stanford Avenue will add a sunroom, estimated at 3900 dollars.
Deputies arrested Dell Davis aged 47 last evening after a dispute with his brother in law. Davis allegedly cut him with a pocket knife during the argument. The warrant was sworn by his sister Mrs Margaret Fert of the same address Take and Meister Roads.
Davis is to be arraigned before Justice of the Peace Joseph Quetro on charges of disorderly conduct.
County commissioners awarded the purchase of two new Ford sedans for the sheriff's department to The Franklin Jones Motor Company of Wellington. The low bid was 632 dollars per car with a 62 trade in allowance for two old cars.
In London on St Helier's Avenue a new traffic signal system using invisible light rays operates via photo electric cells to detect vehicles and pedestrians crossing. The system aims to enhance safety on a mile long busy thoroughfare serving 4,000 houses and thousands of residents, with passing bodies breaking the rays to trigger signals.
An 1848 Toledo Whig committee account book shows the Rough and Ready Club renting horses and buggies for campaign trips to back Zachary Taylor. The club quickly subscribed 65 dollars in the first two years of Taylor’s administration. The book belonged to Frank Segur of Toledo, whose grandfather Dan Segur was secretary of the local Whig committee. Nearly all inhabitants of Finland are Lutherans.
Practical kitchen notes cover meat loaf flavoring with Worcestershire sauce and reheating effects. The text also gives pie crust fat ratios, apricot muffin methods, steamed chicken accompaniments, and a museum death case where James Reeve died from asphyxiation after a rats gnawed gas pipe, with investigation noted.
A survey of 166 pastors in 160 American cities finds two thirds advise against wives working while married and warn that long engagements and postponed marriages fuel social ills. Many urge temporary employment only and cap postponement at 18 months, while some favor waiting for the husband to support the home.
Service Director I D Faxon said he hoped to help residents by having men work off their water bills. He reported only seven responses to the bid, noting that many unemployed residents could have used the opportunity.
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