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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1930
Page
6
A fragmented timetable lists trains on the Norwalk division and Sandusky lines with departure times and routes. It mentions Western Express daily service from Cleveland to Detroit and various local freights, with scattered numbers and times.
Daily rail schedule shows multiple hourly departures from Elyria to Public Square Cleveland and return, with through connections to Medina Berea Lorain and Oberlin. Theatre car runs to Wellington on select nights, with connections to Norwalk Grafton North Amherst and Lorain. Large reliable cars claim comfort, no smoke or cinders, scenic river bluff views and Springs picnic grounds at 615 Garfield Bldg Oakland Ohio.
A telegraph report describes a smallpox panic in Zanesville, with a stampede of colored residents seeking quarantine escapes. In Columbus, the Ohio Supreme Court upholds municipal power to discharge civil service workers for nonpayment of debts. Mayor Jones of Toledo announces a nonpartisan bid for re election as he campaigns from the post office steps. A state commerce board meeting outlines supports for a constitutional amendment favoring commercial interests.
Debts and a mandamus case led to a circuit verdict that McKenzie was not entitled to reinstatement. the common pleas court order was reversed and the supreme court affirmed the circuit decision. Also notes a spirits association meeting in Cincinnati with potential new contracts and a possible continuation of the group. An unknown man was found dead on Erie tracks in Akron with bullet wounds, suspected murder or suicide, bearing the name Paul McGown. A Columbus Brewery banquet was interrupted by a serious elevator accident injuring two. one may be fatally hurt.
The article notes proposals to secure governor veto power and legislative discretion in taxation for Ohio corporations. It also mentions legal cases in Cleveland and nearby cities, including a grand jury decision on James O Donnell’s stepfather shooting, and a special grand jury to be convened in Hamilton. It records Johnson renominated for mayor, a $70,000 damages verdict in White Plains, and a Park Avenue tunnel death case.
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