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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1927
Page
6
A flood of small ads lists mowing machines, furniture like an oak dresser and bookcase, various lamps and appliances, and lower prices on household items. Legal notices include custody actions, property sidewalk paving orders, and road assessments with hearings scheduled in Lorain and nearby townships.
The Lorain County Commissioners schedule a hearing as ordered by the board. Obie Fousten Berger is the county clerk. The notice is dated June 25 and July.
Broad daily air times list varied programs across networks including ROE lateen 600 p m, baseball scores, orchestras led by Waldorf-Astoria and Goldman, and time signals. Notable acts include Willard Cavaliers, Gordon band from New York, Katherine La Shell contralto, and Eddie Elkins orchestra with multiple time slots across WEAF WEEL WJAK WOR WRC and BLUE NETWORK stations.
A Chicago program lists an Italian love song by the Cordaro Instrumental Trio with an on-air talk by Dr. W. H. Osgood about Abyssinia exploration at 4:09 poem segment and notes on station WrAA Dallas Zenith Symphony brief.
Radio program highlights for Sunday include WEAF connections at 6 20 p m EST from Capitol Theatre and later at 1 00 p m EST with American Singers. Other schedules feature WPG Atlantic City EST, Steel Pier Concert via WIZ at 1 90 p m EST Rory and His Gang and WBZ Springheld 7332 7 56 p m EST 194th Infantry Band.
Radio highlights list 1927 program credits from United Press. WEAF airs Goldman band and Martha opera with 7.3 pm est. Detroi program features Detroit Symphony 1 to 5 pm est. JZ 6 30 pm est Rory and his gang. WLUW Cincinnati Zoo Gardens concert 4 pm est.
Toledo street car workers ratified a one year contract with the Community Traction Co. The referendum ends strike talk and bars a wage increase while concessions on overtime and conditions were conceded. The word Fordize enters Russian usage as factories speed up. Cracksmen robbed a Philadelphia payroll of 6200.
A daytime break in at the Frank Mark Construction Company office saw thieves blow open two small safes and flee with a payroll sum of 6700 dollars. A watchman discovered the scene and alerted authorities.
Bishop Manning denounces divorce mills in Paris and New York as he sails to York to speak at a cathedral anniversary. He rejects a group proposing open minded consideration of unmarried unions saying compassion marriage would threaten birth and children.
The text notes a church conference in San Francisco and reports professors recommending its consideration. It cites a questionnaire circulated by a professor at a well known women's college asking young women questions about companionate marriage, with remarks about the impropriety of quoting them.
June 25 Tokyo reports enforcement of the Japanese ban on betting on horse races extends to ships and shores. Police boarded the Nippon Yuseo Hiralsha liner Yaio Maru in Yokohama May 16 and seized toy wooden horses passengers used for betting.
Letters from Mrs. Goldie Shoup of St Joseph Illinois and Mrs. J Storms of Paterson New Jersey extoll the Vegetable Compound. Each describes improved strength and health after use, noting prior run down conditions. The ad argues better health leads to happier homes and asks readers if they are on the road to better health.
Fragmented schedule details for the Akron to Medina Elyria route including times from Akron to Medina and return trips on Sundays and weekdays. Notes mention Reo and Studebaker vehicles, terminal stops at T. I. and East areas, and fares around $2.08 round trip with various daily departure times and lines in 1925.
A town tale describes two church minded brothers and a joke about who will weigh the coal if one joins. It notes quirky local customs like windmill announcements in Holland for birthdays, deals, and marriages, with the miller halting the mill and directing the wheel.
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