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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1932
Page
6
Detroit June 25 Plymouth Motor Corp announces that May registrations show Plymouth accounts for 26.4 percent of all cars in the lowest price field among 29 states. On June 16 Plymouth produced 1 549 units, with about 8 000 more projected to ship this week. April registrations totaled 11.7 percent nationwide.
Chevrolet dealers sold 48 218 new passenger cars and trucks in May, near domestic production of 40 218 for the month. W S Knudsen, president and general manager, announced that sales rose through the month from 13 870 in the first ten days to 18 121 in the final period. He said the June influx will continue the rising sales curve as Chevrolet launches a large replacement campaign targeting over two million owners of low priced cars two and three years old.
The Pontiac Six and V-1 engines boast high power and speed with no loss of economy. A three jet carburetor system with graded jets precisely meters fuel for each speed, plus Pontiac economizer and heated fuel mix control to optimize performance and efficiency at varying speeds.
Report from New Orleans describes a demonstration of the Rockne Six reaching speeds above sixty miles per hour over long distances and various terrains. The test began in New Orleans and the car departed for the demonstration.
A jumble of weekend visits and guest appearances from Wallington to Cleveland and Nova Ohio. Local families including the Myers, Murmay, Day, Sweda, Rousseau, Ewell, Klein, Storrow, Tran, Landon and others are noted hosting or attending events and dinners. The piece closes with a note on how the common strawberry spreads through seed dispersal by birds, explaining its wide cultivation.
The six travelers work through a tense cipher using disk methods to decipher a coded message while Livingston remains a hidden threat. They pause for a swim to relieve stress, reminisce about Madison and past ties, then resume their stubborn pursuit of the solution before night falls.
A travelogue describes driving speeds on gravel and brick roads from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and Baton Rouge to Jackson, with 57 to 50 mph averages on 100 and 200 mile legs. The piece shifts to humorous reflections on credit, tailoring delays, and hotel clerks, ending with a wandering digression about Dunhill’s and clerks in dusters.
New York columnist recalls shifts in railway reservations and theater box office culture. He jokes about old clout in rail travel with giants like James J. Hill and E. H. Harriman, contrasts with modern attentive service, and notes how box office dynamics have changed with a tale of snagged two seats described in playful, self-mocking tone.
A long list of Sunday dinner and supper guests at the H D Bowen home includes A C Bowen and son Robert of Cleveland Clifford Bowen of Elyria Lloyd Garrett and daughter Arlene of Cleveland John Naegele and three daughters Lillie Nettie Dortha of here Mrs Ida Hawley and John Steve of Norwalk visited relatives. Also notes visits by Lloyd Garrett and Arlene from Cleveland to grandparents H D Bowen and others, plus various callers, reunions, and small town social notes.
Brighton 4-H members meet at the schoolhouse for a officers and leaders conference held in Elyria last week. The Sew-So club plans another meeting at the Brighton schoolhouse on Tuesday afternoon June 28 at 2 o clock. Local residents Mr and Mrs Charlies Mays and son Carl visited Cleveland relatives while others traveled.
Indigenous West peoples attributed thunder to giant birds whose wings beat to create sound and whose eyes shed lightning as flaming arrows. The myth links natural wonder to avian beings and their piercing gaze, explaining storm phenomena through supernatural birds.
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