Workers' Dream Almost Realized and Wall Collapse
Grand Rapids, Michigan. George McGowen, a laborer, warned his employers Charles and Freyd Parks about a concrete wall in an unfinished excavation. He had dreamed the wall would crush him. He resumed work, the wall collapsed, others escaped, and McGowen cried that he was dying as the danger became real.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
George McGowen
Charles
Freyd Parks
McGowen
Parks
Gowen Rescued After Collapse Injures Companion
A man named Gowen cried out as friends began digging him out from debris. After rescuers freed him, he was taken to a hospital where doctors reported serious injuries but expected recovery.
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Gowen
Spencer Baptist pastor honored on birthday in Spencer
The Spencer Baptist church gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kelffer’s home on a Thursday evening to honor Rev. Charles Hylen’s birthday. Guests enjoyed socializing and a large birthday cake prepared by Mrs. Clyde Kelffer and Mrs. Warner Gannett, followed by a purse gift for Rev. Hylen. Mr. and Mrs. Stantone are driving a new car. Glenn Firestone and two children stay with his parents Elmer and Mrs. Elmer Firestone. Esther Bowman assists at home.
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Spencer
Spencer Baptist Church
Charles Hylen
Clyde. Kelffer
Hylen
Clyde Kelffer
Warner Gannett
Clifton Breyley
Akron
Norman Breyley
Hassie
Oakley
North Street
Frank Wallam
Congress
Clara Brouse
Frank Ginn
Stentz
Washington Street
Henry Christy
Mall
Buster Weldrick
Helen Boone
Dorothy Keiffer
Medina
Don Stroup
Elyria
Martin Weidrick
Edna Jacobs
Oberlin Hospital
Marvin Ingraham
Anna Mae
Grant Hull
Walter Everhardt
John Beck
Massillon
L. J. Quade
Aaron Browand
Littlefield
Clarence Dague
C. B. Dague
Warren Fenstemaker
Sadia Gault
Martin Hoffman
Cleveland
Charlie Dague
Finley
Canton
P. J. Rowe
West Salem
Sherman Zehmer
Anna Bowen
Alva White
South Street
J. Nikle
Rudolph Sizetz
Quinn
Norman Bowen
Walter Bowen
Alfred Fuller
Lodi
Herman Funk
John
B. L. Myers
Simon Browand
South Main
Glenn Fidestone
Local residents host visitors and note several family updates
Mrs Walter Rook and children visited Elyria with Mrs Rook’s sister Mrs Geo Myers. Numerous neighbors and relatives travel between Elyria Medina Wadsworth and Penfield for weekends and hospital stays. Scarlet fever enters Breyley home. Eglin family returns home. Circle No 2 meets for sewing at M E church.
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Walter Rook
Burton
Doris
Joyce
Elyria
Kenneth Gross
Fisher
Columbiania
Lucy Gross
John Woods
Wadsworth
DeForest Garberck
Irish influence evident in social talk and fashion
The text notes Mrs. Martin Welderick and family moving to the Stedman Hunted farm with tenants for a year while Mr. Melvin Skelly of Akron joins them. It then quotes a speaker praising Irish fashions and behavior, claiming Irish girls wear first Paris styles, smoke in public places, master the black bottom, and drink whisky at home, concluding you can't beat the Irish.
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Martin Welderick
Melvin Skelly
Akron
Stedman
Paris
Irish Flapper Rivalry Supposed by Miss Barry
Miss Eileen Barry, sister of the late Irish poet Kevin Barry, arrives in Chicago to study American education methods and proclaims that Irish flappers will outpace American girls, declaring that American girls are slow.
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Chicago
Eileen Barry
Kevin Barry
Miss Barry
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Helps Indigestion Claim
A vintage advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the cure for indigestion caused by excess stomach acid. It promotes its instant neutralizing effect, tasteless alkalin water, and claims 59 years as a physician trusted standard. Available in 25 and 50 cent bottles, with the U S registered trademark since 1875.
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Phillips’ Mk
Magnesia
U. S
Charles H Phillips Chemical Company
Charles H. Phillips
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F. A. Smith & Bros
Elyria Block
Middle Ave
Kolinski & Standen
Elyria Savy & Trust
Waynedail
Heldmyer Hardware Co
Broad St
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Broad St. and
West Ave
Golgotha
E. W. Weber
Wayne
Grace Ev. Lutheran Church
St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church
Peggy Paige
Anchereo
Lancers
Blue Ross
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