Today is the Day by Clark Kinnaird 1934 chronicle note
A compact, period style piece lists historical dates and events for June 19 across years. It includes Christian councils at Nice, the Savannah steamship’s Atlantic crossing, Knickerbockers baseball club history, the CSS Alabama raider action, and mentions of naval matters, reflecting a mid century newspaper feature tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Kinnaird
Key Central Press Association
Savannah
Liverpool
John Bowis
H. M
Kite
Sarah
Knickerbockers
New York
Hoboken
N. J
Abner Doubleday
Notable events glimpsed in history and science notes
A miscellany memoir style page notes U S damages from Britain in 1867 and Maximilian of Mexico, Marie Curie’s radium discovery, and notable natives born on a shared date. It also recalls Jupiter’s four moons visible with a telescope, a tale of a hangings dog, and Otis Tufts patenting the first passenger elevator in Boston with an early steam system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaise Pascal
Douglas Hatt
Britain
Haig
Henry H. Gibbon
Military Academy
Cavalry
James J. Walker
New York
Elbert Hubbard
William A. Brady
Otis Tufts
Boston
Fifth Avenue
Avon Lake Man Drowns While Fishing Avon Lake
Ernest Hawkswell aged 39 of Lakewood drowned when a fishing boat capsized in rough Lake Eris waters off Stop 66 after hours of fishing near the breakwater. Clarence Flumerfelt of Lakewood survived. Coast guardsmen could not reach the body at sea due to high waves. it washed ashore at about 7 p.m. He is survived by his wife and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avon Lake
Ernest Hawkswell
Lakewood
Clarence Flumerfelt
Lake Eris
Stop
Flumerfelt
Hawkswell
Coast
Lorain
Junior Team Tops Kohlmeyer Hardwares 9 to 5 on Local Diamond
The Junior Baseball team defeated Kohlmeyer Hardwares of Lorain 9 to 5 on the local diamond Sunday afternoon in front of a large crowd. Attended funeral reports note Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hinton, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Law, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hodge attended the funeral of their father Mr. Hinton at Findlay Sunday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kohlmeyer Hardwares
Kohlmeyer Hardware
Lorain
Dave Hinton
C. J. Law
Harry Hodge
Mr. Hinton
Findlay
Proud Horsfall baby daughter born at Lakewood hospital
Mr and Mrs Dave Horsfall are the proud parents of a baby daughter born Tuesday at Lakewood hospital. Mrs John Hertner and her son George left Saturday to attend a commencement exercises.
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Dave Horsfall
Lakewood Hospital
John Hertner
George
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Hertner
Anna Hertner
Amherst Receives Guests At Family Gathering
Amherst and South Amherst residents were guests of honor at multiple social events. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Winson chaired a May wedding reception with gifts and lunch for attendees from Elyria Cleveland and nearby towns. Other notices include Happy Hour club hosting towels making and refreshments, a William Bullock home picnic for 35 from several cities, and alumni gathering at Foresters Hall with Bob Worthington orchestra. Local church groups planned outings to Crooked Creek farm and a Good Will Industries trip to Lorain, plus various brief social updates from area residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Amherst
Howard Winson
Thomas Winson
A., Higgenhbotham
Jack
Wanda
Mildred
Ethel Winson
Richard Vinson
William Cook
Billy
Eleanor
Happy Hour
Betty Mori
Alfred Roll
John Mori
Ruth Krusch
Milda Kolzhauer
Lila Fpinpert
Florence Bedistine
Helen Katuna
Florence
Flora Schneider
Lois Spane
June Trompson
William Bullock
Detroit
Mich
Benton
LaGrange
Elyria
Cleveland
Lovain Amherst
South Amherst High School
Foresters’ Hall
Bob Worthington
Ladies’ Aid Society
Loral Methodist Church
Axttel and
Amherst
Good Will Industries
Lorain
Methodist Church
XN. G. Townsend
William Franklin
Camden
Hannah Jackson
Joseph Heathcote
George Aston
Isaac Stack
Sadie Willis
Elyria Gates Hospital
William Emery
Clarence White
David Davids
Oberlin Seminary
Congregational
Davids
Congregational Church
Former Trene Castle declines stage return for dog charity work
June 13 reports Trene Castle, now gray and devoted to the Deerfield shelter near Chicago, refusing offers to resume acting to manage her pet welfare cause Orphans of the Storm. The piece notes her private life, past as Irene Foote, and the shelter's role in finding homes for homeless city pets amid a broader cultural shift toward casual cabaret and bohemian dining.
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New York
Trene Castle
Deerfield
Chicago
Castle
Allons
Animal Cruel
Funeral tightens ties as friends honor Mrs. Rees
Mr. and Mrs John Hertner and others attended the funeral of Mrs. J. Rees at Lakewood on Friday. Briefs note a Junior baseball dance at the village hall and various weekend visits among local families including Eckstein, Weber, Pedersen, Seefried, Williams Emery, Schumaker, and Cappel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hertner
A. J. Hain
Was- Soner
Sidney
J. Rees
Lakewood
Village Hall
Frank Eckstein
Canton
Carl Weber
East Cleveland
Peter Weber
George Vaugin
Fostoria
Wayne Guthrie
Paul Lyons
Bellevue
Amid Midtown Oddities A Glimpse Of Shops And Jazz Fame
The piece notes Michigan Law School’s midtown rise and empty shops amid a modern avenue scene. It mentions Roy Fox rising in London as a successful musician from Abe Lyman’s era, and Buddy De Sylva’s Hawaiian nights at Vernon Country Club, with Tom Geraghty recalling rhymes about Azusa California and British success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Fox
Paul Whiteman
London
Britain
Abe Lyman
Hale Byers
Harry Richman
Buddy de Sylva
Vernon Country Club
Los Angeles
Brown
Buddy
Azusa
Calif
Tom Geraghty
Fragmentary notice hints at London stay and film plans
The text fragment references a person in London for a year as a major dome for Douglas Fairbank Geraghty and mentions Hollywood offers and producers’ interest. It also contains garbled phrases about sleep, a weekend, and unclear names, with references to a syndicate and Jay Price.
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London
Douglas Fairbank Geraghty
25 Studios
Lang
Hollywood
Ing
F Magnus
Hound
Geese Patrol Waterbury Factory Night Watchmen
Howard G. Rice in Waterbury uses two geese as night watchmen to scare burglars away from his factory. The birds have been assigned the role and are described as watchful guardians of the premises.
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Waterbury
Conn
Howard G. Rice
Rice
Hitch-hiking snake halts freight train near Heidenheimer
Rail road Engineer J. B. Pruitt and Fireman J. C. McCoy recount a hitch-hiking snake on a siding scene at Temple Texas. The snake crawled onto the cab and over the air‑vent area before sliding off as the locomotive bent a curve.
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Snake
Temple
Tex
J. B. Pruitt
J. C. McCoy
Heidenheimer
Pruitt
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Mars
Saturn
Mercury
Jupiter
Nice
Constantine
Alabama
Raphael Semmes
Maryland
Kearsarge
John A. Winslow
North Carolina
Cherbourg
France
U. S
Geneva Tribunal
Maximilian Hamburg
Mexico
United States
Mesgco
Benito Juarez
Mme
Marie Sklodowska Curis
Earth
England
Tom Gerrard
Tom
Daniel Burgess
Potter Drug & Chemical Corporation
Malden
Mass
Botamer Florist
High Street
Dry Cleaners
Joe Shotoski
East Avenue
Halt Ave
Mathew Zechman Holesale
Oneart
ROSE
Cuba
Tampello Cigars
Second Street
Young People’s League of St. John’s
Crooked Creek
Birmingham
Irene Foote
New Rock
Greenwich
Madam Bertilotti
Barney Gallant
Tiny Tim
Sofia
Michigan Law School
Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
Harlan F. Stone
U.S. Supreme Court
Newton D. Baker
Exerci
Wilson W. Cook
Elyria Automobile Club
Bankers
Hare
Jay Price
Copyrizgn Syndicate, Inc
Sinclair
Southland
Turkey
Greece
The
Goa
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