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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1929
Page
8
March 20 1929 editorial on Alabama flood devastation and the public response. It notes thousands stranded and homeless, relief efforts by the American Red Cross, air drops of supplies, National Guard aid, and widespread charitable giving. It emphasizes human humility before nature and the duty to assist the needy during disaster.
The Daytona Beach speed test that cost Lee Bible and a cameraman their lives is debated as a tragedy that also drives learning. Proponents say extreme testing reveals stress on engines, oils, and parts, guiding safer, higher performance designs while noting historic parallels like Lindbergh’s risky, pioneering flight that opened the way for greater achievements.
Readers discuss whether the saying room for argument truly implies space for dispute or a chance to push back. The line reflects linguistic nuance and public interpretation in everyday speech.
A puzzling remark raises questions about perception and capability. The phrase highlights a tongue in cheek critique of human and machine thinking boundaries, illustrating how objects like a tire might seem to “know” when a jack is forgotten.
A health column discusses ulcer diet management, noting initial restriction to milk and cream, gradual reintroduction of soft cooked foods, and the risk of scurvy from lacking fresh fruits. Emphasis on thoroughly chewing, individualized plans, and early incorporation of vitamin C rich foods while avoiding indigestible items.
Abe Martin remarks on Trotzky in Berlin with a folksy line about a Safe Bad and a jab at a lengthy cure for neuritis. The fragment notes the author John F. Dille Co. and hints at a humor column's style.
A list of historical figures tied to anniversaries includes Gen. Edmund P. Gaitnes born in Virginia in 1777 and dying in 1849 in New Orleans, Gen. Neal Dow born in Portland in 1810, John McCrosker the first American Cardinal born in Brooklyn and died 1885 in New York, and others such as the Duke of Reichstadt born Paris 1811, Henrik Ibsen born 1828, Charles W. Eliot born Boston 1834, David H. Greer born Wheeling 1844, Lucy Myers Mitchell born Persia 1845, with various death dates and locations.
Great Britain declared a blockade of the entire Atlantic coast with a notable exception yet to be specified. The move signals heightened naval enforcement and potential disruption to maritime traffic during the ongoing conflict era.
Captain Robert Dollar, famed Pacific Coast lumber and steamship magnate, born in Falkirk Scotland eighty five years ago. English novelist William J Locke born sixty six years ago. Thomas Cochran of J P Morgan & Co born in St Paul Minnesota fifty eight years ago.
The reading notes a person born on this day tends to be visionary but lacks initiative and concentration. Being on a cusp between two signs, careful study of both is needed to find the path to success, with outcomes hinging on the birthplace birth hour aspects.
James Montgomery Beck, born Philadelphia 1861, lawyer, solicitor general, congressman-elect in 1927. He held multiple posts, practiced in New York, praised press freedom and warned against censorship of radio and motion pictures as threats to democracy. He notes two new media of expression with vast democratic potential.
The speaker warns that popular institutions depend on an educated electorate and criticizes the common-school system for only reaching the threshold of governance. They urge using new forms of activity to improve humanity, defend free speech and press as core to freedom of thought, and resist emancipating one form of thought while oppressing another.
New York dispatch notes corporations seek senior college men for immediate hires after June graduation. W. C. Bowen of IT&T visits multiple East and West campuses including Cornell Yale Princeton Lehigh Carnegie Tech Dartmouth Harvard MIT Penn Chicago Illinois Wisconsin. He plans to hire about forty, interviewing hundreds with about one in twenty five found suitable.
A note contrasts Australia’s population a century ago with today. It states about 30,000 people then, described as three quarters convicts, versus a current population exceeding 6,000,000. It presents a stark growth in residents over time.
In Sofia a mill owner Grigori Hadalich gunned down his wife and her lover, then killed himself. He hid in the garden after telling his wife he would be away on business for several days, ending a suspected eternal triangle.
A young magistrate named Vasilev arrived on the scene within hours. Hadzitch, after waiting, left his hiding place and entered the house through a window he had unfastened from the inside. With only three bullets he killed the magistrate, his wife, and himself.
Norfolk police logged unusual thefts when a tobacco tin was pilfered of pens valued at 12 cents, and on the same day a red dray wagon was reported missing its left shaft in a separate theft.
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