Fragmentary note hints at police pursuit and camp encounter
A fragmentary OCR reads like a report of a camp scene and a police search. Names and details are unclear but imply a pursuit connected to a boy and a telephone message.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
6
A fragmentary OCR reads like a report of a camp scene and a police search. Names and details are unclear but imply a pursuit connected to a boy and a telephone message.
Nine garden company units formed at McKinley School with captains and lieutenants leading efforts in tending, raking, and planting. The Home Garden association seeks vacant lots for homes with soil suitable for gardens and asks for leads via garden supervisor Ed Adams.
Fragmentary text shows garbled lines with phrases about secrets crying, a door, a pocket, and an elf deporting the country. Lacks clear events, names, places, or dates to anchor a full summary.
Secretary Daniel issued a broadside against advocates of a general staff for the navy. He accused them of trying to Prussianize the Navy Department and centralize control, arguing against structural changes and steering the discussion toward public decision.
Two children Day and Night explore a ship with a farmer watching. They roam the gang plank as a wagon unloads and a box of oranges spills, Day tastes orange peel and Night bites a sour orange. They seek water while a surprise awaits tomorrow.
The Ohio Experiment Station bulletin notes that well treated potatoes prove profitable despite high prices prompting reduced acreage. It forecasts continuing favorable returns if cultivation and handling are properly managed.
Ohio farmers should plant potatoes early and invest in manure or fertilizer. At the Ohio Experiment Station, land with no manure yields 120 bushels per acre, while fertilizer of 320 lb acid phosphate 200 lb muriate of potash and 160 lb nitrate of soda raises average to 172 bushels. Cost around $28 per acre amid $1 per bu prices, margins remain solid. Barn yard manure also yields similar gains. Market notes from Pittsburgh list cattle steers to cows, hogs, sheep, lambs, and calves with varying prices and receipts.
A vintage household column presents daily menus breakfast with oranges cereal coffee and buttered toast, lunch with vegetable soup croutons and pie, dinner featuring beef croquettes mashed potatoes creamed string beans white bread pickles peaches and cake. It includes tips on making beef croquets and circle salad, removing iodine stains, storing potatoes, removing lime from a kettle, softening butter, and winter garbage disposal.
New York May 17. Wall Street opens with prices showing little change as weekend developments and impending Supreme Court decisions prompt caution. Oil, food shares move little. American oils firm after a selling wave. Final values show narrow moves across major stocks and steady to firm commodities markets.
Cattle and hog prices edge higher or steady across Cleveland New York Chicago and Cincinnati markets with steers top around 13.25 in Chicago and 12.50 in Cincinnati while hogs range 12.50 to 14.60. Sheep and lambs show mixed shifts and farm product prices, butter and dairy quotes listed for Cleveland.
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