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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1934
Page
8
A stream of colorful asides recalls people and scenes from 1930s culture. Notable mentions include Ralph Barton, Jean Muir, Paul Whiteman, Rex Cole, Mark Twain, Will Hogg, E M Delafield, Ben Bernie, and various public figures, with playful notes on fashions, manners, and celebrity personas. The piece showcases witty blurbs rather than a single event.
Joan Dudley and her wealthy aunt travel with friends to Granitehead where Giles Armiger runs a bookshop and Scripps repairs shoes. A subtle romance unfolds as Giles weighs interfering with Joan’s engagement to Drew Hallam while Joan receives a small gift and contemplates a future amid old town ties and new wealth.
The piece lists June 23 as the 174th day of 1934 marked by Midsummer Eve and the first quarter Moon. It notes historic events tied to this date: Nero’s persecution begins in Rome, Robert the Bruce defeats Edward II at Bannockburn, and Henry Hodgson called Hudson is set adrift after mutiny.
A fragmented 18th century note recalls Robert Clive with 3200 troops routing 54,000 Suravnd Dow in India, establishing British rule. It also mentions the 1815 suicide of a clerk-turned-hero and the 1833 era of looming invention as the first typewriter emerges in 1874. Later items note Lieut Maugham’s 1924 cross continental flight in 21 hours 45 minutes. Names listed include Prince of Wales born 1844, and others: Irvin Cobh, Gottfried Leibniz, Charles Hilles, and Laur ie Erskine.
Sunday June 24 marks the Nativity of St John the Baptist, a major Roman Catholic feast. The celebration in Italy takes on a more carnival tone than Christmas Eve Epiphany eve traditions.
Albert M. Johnson a Chicago businessman famed for the Death Valley castle spoke in Elyria about his desert home built and furnished at a cost over a million dollars. He recounted rescuing a marooned car party, noted the castle draws about 2900 visitors monthly, and described Death Valley’s extreme heat and dryness with record temperatures and low rainfall.
The text recalls 1497 Cabot landing in North America and Columbus sailing for India, plus 1664 New Jersey granted to Berkeley and Carteret and notable nativities like Beecher and Dumas. It also notes Horatio Kitchener and Dempsey, then discusses solar time versus clock time and sun meridian alignment.
Austere factory office near Plymouth Motor Corporation’s 2250 operations hub links Factory Manager H Patterson to the assembly lines. Draft free ventilation with independently adjustable windows lets staff regulate air flow as cars move past perimeters and interlines. The system directs air currents into the car, with front and rear windows offering adjustable angles for passenger comfort.
Dearborn Mich June 23 Ford Motor Company announces a new type automobile radio receiver designed for all Ford V-8 cars. It offers home-like power activity and range, center dash controls, compact construction, bass compensation for lifelike sound, and will be sold exclusively through Ford dealers as extra equipment.
Readers note a mix of facts and trivia from the era. Chrysler Airflow and Chrysler Six owners praise ventilation as heat rises, while others discuss clock rates in summer, theater heating origins, Amerindian temperance roots, medieval views of consumption, and Abigail Adams as the first president’s wife to both wife and mother of a president and to travel abroad as an ambassador’s spouse.
Road notice outlines advised travel plans and detours across Ohio cities including Toledo Columbus Cleveland Youngstown Canton and more. It lists state routes highways and alternate paths via S R 102 58 42 82 14 18 21 and interstates with detours near Elmore Oberlin Ashland Mansfield Mt Vernon and Delaware.
A fragmented diary of entertainment figures and scenes. The writer rails at a typewriter, notes favorites like Fritzi Scheff and Doris Kenyon, proclaims Johnny Carson era voices, and muses on actors, directors, and venues. Mentions Charleston, Paris, and U.S. travel, with fleeting opinions on concerts, plays, and personal tastes.
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