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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1920
Page
4
The Chronicle Telegram shows circulation notes and pricing details for Elyria and surrounding areas. It lists subscription costs by mail and in city delivery, plus rate terms and Associated Press copyright statements.
In Akron the carpenters and plumbers unions push to train apprentices, challenging the wage lure of unskilled jobs. The piece argues youth training in trade schools and apprenticeships is needed, noting many join other paths rather than learn a craft.
A memorial meeting is planned for next Monday May 24 at the First Congregational Church to honor Mr and Mrs E W Metcalf whose deaths leave their remains at Elyria cemetery. The program aims to celebrate their charity and temperance work with speakers including Howard H Russell and others. Also noted are obituaries of sleeping car inventor who died in Morristown New Jersey at a ripe age and Boise Penrose and Governor Sprawl in political notes.
Amherst residents and Miss Pearl Montgomery of Bedford Indiana were honored guests at a Spring Street gathering featuring games music and social time. A late hour luncheon followed served by Martha Heli.
Despondent over ill health James Black Af confessedly committed suicide by slashing his throat in Lorain. A local church inter church drive and retail price cuts are noted as separate items in the city report.
A stray cat kept in a vacant room for five days is rescued. Auditor Charles Patterson aims to borrow 850,000 to pay city employees unpaid for over a month. The city ordinance loan period expired and passed without Mayor Grall's approval. Patterson surveys banks for a willing lender.
A collage of humorous items and society notes recounts prowling curiosities from a druggist bottle joke to questions about actors and ancestors. It mocks fashion trends, cinema censorship, Ellis Island society, and local musings with satirical vignettes and short items.
A mosaic of humorous vignettes shows a Chicago man’s heaven joke at odds with city life, a prolonged country visit turning into a months stay, and Edith Wharton’s sharp maid interview. A grocery chat yields a playful miscue about choosing butter.
Commissioners Beal and Richmond return from Columbus reporting a $100,000 state highway appropriation for county road improvements. Funds will not be immediately available. towns and the county must provide their share and complete surveys and formal steps before work can begin.
Washington reports May 22 census figures for several cities with gains and percent increases. Jersey City New Jersey posts 297 864 up 11.2 percent. Lowell Massachusetts rises to 112 479 up 5.8 percent. Wakefield Massachusetts shows 13 010 up 14.1 percent. Bridgeton New Jersey reaches 14 223 up 0.8 percent. Tampa Florida lists 51 252 up 12.47 percent.
The Robinson Hancock Co offers a twenty percent discount from regular marked prices on all men’s suits for seven days only. Sale starts Saturday.
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