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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1937
Page
6
The piece urges timely home and street cleaning as winter grime lingers into spring. It notes procrastination by households and business on tasks like washing, polishing, and yard work, and mulls the stale effect of soot and dull grounds. It ends by invoking civic pride to urge action.
Our pleasant trip to Wooster yesterday saw thousands of cars on the highways as Americans push to end winter by pleasure riding. The road surface shows many holes, highway upkeep remains costly, and signs clutter intersections. Egg prices range 21 to 31 cents per dozen while maple sap flows, promising a good farming season and higher prices. Farmers remodel homes and barns, suggesting rural prosperity despite traffic hazards and reform talks on the Supreme Court. Trailer homes attract buyers, while some farms show tidiness versus neglect, highlighting varied rural conditions.
Fragmentary OCR notes mix ancient beauty practices with timelines from Egypt and Persia, then jump to 19th and 20th century events. Mentions Darius and eye makeup, gold to silver ratios, Me n es Egypt, 3500 BC, labor riots near San Francisco, Beecher, a coal mine disaster, Rhineland, today’s birthdays, horoscopes, and tourism in Honolulu.
Readings from St Matthew 7 verses 24 28 and 20 emphasize hearing and doing the sayings of Jesus. The article notes Jesus spoke with authority, not like the scribes, based on personal experience and a direct connection with God. It contrasts humble authority with egotism as Jesus declares I am the light of the world and the Way the truth and the life.
A sequence of anniversaries recounts Simon Cameron born in Lancaster County Pa. died 1859, Robert J. Breckinridge born near Lexington Ky. died 1871, Alvan Clark born Ashfield Mass. died 1887, Edwin P. Whipple born Gloucester Mass. died 1886, Matthew C. Bauer born near Greenville S C died 1909, Oliver Wendell Holmes born Boston Mass. died 1935, Homer Davenport born Silverton Ore died 1912.
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