Ford Bid For Muscle Shoals Power Plant Lease
The article notes a 100 year lease bid by Henry Ford for the Muscle Shoals water power project on the Tennessee River Alabama. It contrasts Ford's offer with Alabama Power Company and highlights farmer and business support for Ford while Congress weighs the issue.
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United States
Tennessee River
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Wilson Dam
Fertilizer Trust
Congress
Henry Ford
Ford
Alabama Power Company
Medina County Truck Weight Limits Backed by Authorities
The county engineer and state highway department enforce truck load reductions on Medina County roads this season. The Medina Gazette backs the move and urges compliance, arguing road preservation and shared benefit from good roads justify short-term hardship for truck operators.
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State Highway Department
Medina County
Medina Gazette
Gazette
France to repay double plus interest on wartime loan
The note recalls a wartime loan when one dollar equaled five francs and claims France used funds to pay high wages and profits. It states the U S demands repayment at two and a half times the original value to balance the debt, prompting the question of whether France views Uncle Sam as a Shylock.
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France
America
Uncle Sam
Phrase from Boston Transcript Cartoon Note
A brief dialogue captures a girl asking her friend about loving an old time knight. The reply rejects the romantic image noting that sitting on an iron knee never appealed to her.
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Boston Transcript
Yesterdays in Ohio 1825 to 1887 highlights and obits
A compact bridge of dates and names recalls Ohio events from 1825 to 1887 including a Dayton fleet release, John Delamater death in Cleveland, Cincinnati temperance excitement, Grant reception, Fort Recovery gas strike, and notable birthdays of William Allan Neilson Mortimer E Cooley Nathan Matthews Frank Clark Norman Hapgood dips into the year by year recount with brief biographical notes.
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Dayton
New Orleans
John Delamater
Cleveland Medical College
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Exposition Hall
C. 8. Grant
Fort Recovery
Mercer County
Mad Anthony
Aristide Briand
Washington
Nantes
William Allan Neilson
Smith, College
Scotland
Mortimer E Cooley
University of Michigan
American Engineering Council
Canadiagua
N. Y
Nathan Matthews
Boston
Frank Clark
Congress
Florida
Eufaula
Ala
Norman Hapgood
Us&s
Denmark
Chicago
Conventions Opening Today Across Several States
Governor and council petitioned for as conventions open in Baton Rouge New Orleans and Birmingham. Rotary clubsMississippi Louisiana and Southern Pine Association of Ice Industries listed with Michigan plumbing and hearing contractors association. Alabama Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association noted.
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Baton Rogue
Rotary Clubs of
Mississippi
Louisiana
New Orleans
Southern Pine Association of Ice Industries
Plint
Mich
Michigan Association of Plumbing and Hearing Contractors
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association
Senator Chamberlain Addresses Baltimore Chamber on Tax Measures
Senator George H. Chamberlain spoke to the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce outlining the tax measures before the State Legislature and discussing their potential impact on the city and state finances.
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George H. Chamberlain
Chamber of Commerce
Komical Telegrams Sparkling Local Scribbles
A collection of humorous items and quick quips from Elyria humor pages. Jests about Ford factory Saturdays Willys, goldfish gifts, a Niagara Falls tightrope walk, and local clubs tax returns. Quips include Kennth Kosgrove never been kissed and Prohibition praised by Wayne Wheeler. Ruths Drug Store offers leather bill folds sale.
Ancient casket exhumed with well preserved boy body
Relatives in Elyria report a rusty iron casket unearthed by telephone line workers in Ashland Kentucky. The casket eight feet deep held a boy about three to four years old in remarkable preservation with a glass window over the head. It was moved to J W Mack Co morgue for disposition decisions and may have lain fifty years.
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Ashland Ky
Twentyfourth
Twenty-nith
Winchester
Greenup Armes
J. W. Mack Co
Chronicle-Telegram
Annular solar eclipse visible in America and events across states
Today many readers report an annular solar eclipse visible in America. A South Dakota primary will nominate candidates for fall elections. Nebraska stock breeders begin the Religious Education Association convention. Chicago openings noted and Gen Nelson A Miles to speak at Washington events marking the Meade memorial sod turning. Massachusetts legislature to hear case on Justice Edward P Pierce removal.
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Amerca
South Dakota
Nebraska
Religious Education Association
Chicago
Ioda
Nelson A Miles
Washington
National Memorial
General Meade
Massachusetts
Edward P Pierce
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Boot Legger Loaned, Man Faces Iowa Trip
ABE MARTIN reports Tell Binkley loaned his boot legger to Tipton Budd until he returns from Iowa. The delay caused Jake Bentley to wait long enough to be fined and sell his car.
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Tell Binkley
Tipton Budd
Iowa
Jake Bentley
Elyria Churches Prepare Easter Music Program
Twenty years ago Elyria churches were making strong efforts for Easter music with nightly practices. The Elyria Council Royal and Select Masters met at Masonic hall with seventy five members. Over one hundred attended from Cleveland council. Fifty juniors from the high school performed at the opera house before a crowded audience. The Singers Club of Cleveland gave a concert here with Sol Marcasin Gustave Bernike and Frank Sadlier assisting. Fred J. Reeve, scale supervisor on the B&O, was promoted to take charge of the department.
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Elyria
Elyria Council
Masonic Hall
M. H. Levagood
A. B. Taylor
James C. Smith
Cleveland Council
THE
Singers’ Club
Cleveland
Sol Marcassin
Gustave Bernike
Frank Sadlier
Fred J. Reeve
Fifteen Minutes Radio Lesson on Alternating Current Generators
Edward M. Davis explains marine radio power: an alternator on ships uses a rotating coil in a magnetic field. Diagram 2 shows a four pole generator with field coils, armature coils, and collector rings. The output varies from 116 to 600 volts and is fed to the radio transmitter.
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Land
Buried Body Found, Family Yard Suspected Site
C. S. Clark of the J W Mack Co. notes that fifty years ago it was common to bury children in home yards. He believes the square where the remains were found was once a family yard, explaining why the body was buried there and leaving the mystery unsolved unless a relative recalls the burial.
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C. S. Clark
J W Mack Co
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