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Impressions of Europe From Elyria Woman's Trip
Mrs William H Conrad nee Mary Riley former Elyrian spoke to Elyria Kiwanis at Hotel Billinghurst about her extensive 1936 European trip with her husband architect examining government housing projects. She described Paris Zurich Milan Rome Innsbruck and Germany noting housing programs, social classes, Fascist influence, antiwar sentiment, and everyday life including transport rules and cultural contrasts.
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Hotel
Billinghurst
William H. Conrad
Mary Riley
Elyrian
Europe
L. C. Ziegler
Kiwanian
Lorain
Carroll L. Turmai
Alliance
Asaph R. Jones
France
Paris
Italy
Germany
Raspail and
Montparnasses
Strassbourg
Continent
England
Champs Elysees
Chartres
Beauvais
Fontainebleau
Versailles
Zurich
Switzerland
Herr Herter
Lucerne
Guiseppe Terragni
Como
Milan
Rome
Florence
Signorina
Pensione Ponte Vecchio
Mussolini
Renstime
Forum
Maxentius
Maesolini
Coliseum
Vittorio Emmanuel
Asia Minor
Africa
Romulus
Caesar
Persia
Nile
Innsbruck
Austria
Tyrol
Herman Pirchner
Hitler
Mittenwald
Garmitsch - Partinkirchen
Munich
Stuttgart
Nuremburg
Berlin
Frankfort
Cologne
Dusseldorf
America
Cleveland
United States
Conrad
Max Taut