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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1931
Page
2
The state study praises a ten year welfare plan costing about 44 million dollars and endorses building a new institution for feeble minded delinquents at Grafton. The Grafton state farm is praised for crops and accessibility, with officials favoring future development in the area.
The paper notes a Junior Safety Patrol to be formed in three Elyria schools. Older boys will stand at street intersections near the schools to protect younger children. The writer praises the plan and cites observed help from Middle Avenue and Fourth Street for St Mary’s pupils.
President Hoover, after Congress adjourned, will take a ten day Caribbean cruise with three days allotted to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The trip will combine rest with relief work as he inspects recovery efforts after the 1928 hurricane and vacancy in the Virgin Islands administration, while drafting eight spring speeches and addressing focal issues during the voyage.
A striking tale from colonial roots to New York real estate follows John Wendel’s fur trade fortune passing to son John Gottlieb Wendel who, eccentric, mandates monastic lives for his six sisters. For decades they occupy a red brick Fifth Avenue mansion, a relic of an older era and a strong bid for individualism that modern life questions.
The Wendel fortune valued between 10,000,000 and 200,000,000 may be redistributed among New York charities. Miss Elin Wendel's death prompts reflection on wealth, legacy, and the idea that the family’s influence may vanish with time. The piece questions the value of motto and wealth in lasting human achievement.
George F. Baker Jr of New York, son of the famed banker, is noted as a financial figure in the making. The horoscope suggests knowledge and birth hour may guide studies toward mordicing or related pursuits, with success tied to informed study today.
A reflective March devotional. The text urges humble service, doing one's best, and finding satisfaction in duty. It contrasts sin’s wages with righteousness and seeks guidance through faith to follow the high road to happiness.
A collage noting anniversaries for explorers like David Livingstone and Seth Green, leaders such as William Jennings Bryan, and other notable births and deaths. Also marks Today in History events including the 1850 Continental Congress call, the Webster Parkman trial start, Tolstoi’s excommunication, and the Earl of Balfour’s death. Includes Today’s birthdays for J. J. Raskob, Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart, Rev. Charles Burton, and Judge Fran Evans.
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