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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1922
Page
7
The American Legion launches a drive to provide employment for discharged soldiers facing joblessness. Estimating 500000 to 750000 veterans without work, the appeal urges businesses to honor earlier promises and help veterans rejoin the workforce during tough times. Get in touch with the legion to match men to openings.
Lorain County Jews have raised fourteen thousand dollars for a common fund to aid starving Russians. The appeal urges donations to Mr. Arnold E. Deutsch of the A. E. Deutsch real estate organization, arguing Jewish philanthropy benefits many and faces prejudice.
A compact recall of 1818 to 1919 events touching Ohio figures and places. Buell born near Marietta died in Kentucky. Vinton County formed. Rufus King death. 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry mustered out. Ohio troops welcomed in Hoboken. Plus dated notes on Cardinal Bourne and others born or noted.
Mi Careme celebrations huge today with statements from P C Larkin sailings and Geddes speaking at UC Charter Day exercises in California. International secretaries meet in Paris on Genoa conference. North Dakota Nonpartisan League holds state convention adding Townley plan debate. Local notices list various conventions and civic events from Des Moines to Philadelphia and Savannah.
Local column quips about Elyria police jokes, council cautions on jitneys, and county overloading laws. The piece laments gossip on the Lorain Portity pitch, a Chicago divorce anecdote, a New York trip, and a French menu gag in a restaurant.
Thirty years ago the Oberlin College Glee Club performed at the opera house to a large audience. Seth Griffin of Elyria planned to rebuild the race track at the Tri State fair grounds in Toledo. Fay Manufacturing rented space to assemble bicycles and tricycles for children and cripples. A monkey brought from Honduras toppled a lamp in Wooster’s drugstore and nearly caused a fire. Ladies of St Mary’s church held St Patrick's day entertainment and cleared $100. A H Smith sold his West Avenue home to A Gillmore. Rh M Birdsall was complimented for singing and reading at John G Wooley temperance meetings. A plan existed to build an electric line from Elyria to Randall’s Grove via Lorain. Charles Tattersall married Nellie V Langton with Rev W A Spinney officiating. In Turkey punishment by stranding and throwing criminals into the sea was noted.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Othine double strength from their druggist to remove freckles and improve complexion. It notes March sun and wind increase freckles and promises money back if it fails to work.
An instructional piece by Edward M. Davis on electromotive force and primary batteries. It explains how chemical action in cells creates current, describes zinc copper dry cells, their voltage, and limitations, and previews coverage of secondary batteries. It notes a well producing asphalt in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma.
Read as a historical note, the text claims a higher proportion of men to women in personal crisis reports in the United States, and notes marketing preferences and poison as a common method among women.
Advertises Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy to arouse the liver and improve digestion. Promotes relief from indigestion, bad taste, coated tongue, and low energy with a nightly dose of one or two tablets. Listed prices are 15 and 30 cents.
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