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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1922
Page
6
Oberlin college notes a basketball team finishing eight victories and four defeats in the season. Despite a modest ending, all losses were close in hard games against Miami and Michigan Aggies as the home schedule concluded.
Advertisements claim Dr Edwards, a noted Ohio physician for 17 years, prescribes a vegetable olive tablet to cleanse the liver and bowels. The copy promises improved digestion, skin, tongue coating, and energy, describing the tablets as a safe alternative to calomel and claiming thousands use them.
Captain Wheeler topped the scoring with a strong finish while Al averaged over four baskets per game and eight free throws. Nye Stallings Jones and Land contributed 34 baskets as forwards, Wood added 14, Marvin 6, and Waters 16, with a list of players scoring more than 10 points follows.
March 16 attendance figures compiled by Secretary Jones show only six states unrepresented among Lorain County Oberlin students. Fifteen countries are represented. Ohio leads with 761 students, Pennsylvania 152, New York 115, Illinois 111. Chinese students total 45 with 20 Japanese students among them, including seven girls and 15 Chinese young women in journalism, medicine, teaching, and music studies.
Oberlin officials report thirty students dismissed for poor work at the end of the semester, a higher total than last year’s first semester but similar to the previous second term. Dean Cole notes the sophomore year as the toughest and says completing it gives a good chance toward a degree.
Failures were distributed among Freshmen Sophomores Juniors and Seniors with counts across genders. University of Rochester reported 40 dropouts, suggesting Oberlin’s total was not the largest. Dean Cole noted Oberlin aimed to drop fewer students.
Dr Lynds Jones of Oberlin’s Department of Animal Ecology announces a summer field expedition. Sixteen students will travel by automobile starting March 16 from Oberlin, visiting Illinois Mississippi Iowa MacGregor southern Dakota Wyoming Yellowstone Idaho Salt Lake City Bryce Canyon Utah Arizona Nevada Southern California and a week of coastal camping near San Diego.
An advertisement urges readers to request a free trial of a “wonderful stimulating application” alleged to heal ruptures by tightening muscles and avoiding surgery. It targets men and women with hernias and features a coupon to request the trial, claiming success on large cases and warning of gangrene risks and lifelong supports.
Offbeat notice offers a free sample of a stimulating Rup ture treatment from a company at 14.A Main St Adams SY. It requests the recipient’s name and address to send the sample.
The program opens with faculty and guest speakers including Ernest C. Pye and Arthur Ryan of Anatolia College delivering lectures. The Lenten service series continues with addresses by T W Graham J A Youtz and replacements through March and April by Albert Parker Puch Theodore Soares and H L Willett.
Dr Wark of Colorado, named new postmaster general, is an uncle to Professor Victor Vo Lytle of the Conservatory. Lytle received a letter days ago forecasting the appointment.
Alain H Leo Taylor visits Nova March 16 to present a lecture at the Opera House raising funds for the local high school. Earlier talks by Taylor for the Alea Lyceum Bureau have drawn audiences. proceeds will support school needs. Other items include medical updates from Mrs Thurman Brown and Dr Parren Rawkins sharing hospital news from St Lukes Hospital in Cleveland.
Local residents and visitors gather for church events and family visits. Mr and Mrs Charles Miller and daughter Betty travel from Columbia to see relatives. Mr and Mrs Frank Richards and daughter Virginian visit Lakewood. Mrs Emma Chospeas ing dies at Benton Harbor. funeral arrangements planned. Page lists many social calls and class activities with neighbors in Akron, Sullivan, Ashland, Elyria, and Savannah.
A noted skin specialist touts Mentho Sulphur for unsightly eruptions rashes and blotches. Improvement starts the next day as a germ destroying sulfur preparation dries eczema and soothes skin when applied like cold cream. Obtain a small jar from any good druggist.
The note mentions Miller visiting Geo Richards in Cleveland and Mia Dean Kieffer with her daughter returning to New London after a visit with B S Richards and family. It ends with a quip about trivial Kurdish Tavoree and a playful line about divorcing his wife three times.
Rev Charles W Flint named chancellor of Syracuse University continuing a lineage of Methodist preachers as he takes on leadership roles in higher education.
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