Western and Midwestern dry laws face new moves
Prohibition dominates state actions as Illinois debates a probe into the Lillian de King case and questions Congress on controlling liquor sales. Michigan amends the life for a pint statute while Missouri considers repealing the McCawley Act. Wisconsin moves toward a April 2 referendum to repeal prohibition, amid federal reform talk. East coast debates continue with New York adjourning on enforcement bills and Massachusetts wrestling with future referendums.
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Middle West
Illinois
Lillian de King
Aurora
Congress
Michigan
Missouri
House of Representatives
Wisconsin
General Assembly
New York
Massachusetts
Lorain County Names Temporary Commissioner for Ditch Hearing
Common Pleas Judge W B Thompson appointed Leon Evans of Lorain as temporary County Commissioner to act on the board during a Sheffield Ditch improvement hearing. The move follows Thomas Peebles, then a county commissioner and a township member, becoming unable to act after the November 26 1927 petition filing.
Akron man Jim Armitage Builds Signs Around Elyria
At 21, Jim Armitage began in the sign business, later courting his future wife. He moved from Akron to Cleveland and then to Elyria in 1907, where he has since been erecting signs across town. He lives at 322 Eyepace Street with six children.
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Akron
Jim Armitage
Armitage
Cleveland
Elyria
Eyepace Street
Muggs McGinnis Debuts In Chronicle Telegram Comic
Chronicle Telegram announces a new comic strip Muggs McGinnis by Wally Bishop starting Monday April 11. It follows Muggs and his gang in boyhood adventures with thrills, fights, disappointments, and the dog as a central companion.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Muggs McGinnis
Wally Bishop
Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Peck
Muggs
Amherst Bank Returned To Stockholders
The Amherst Savings and Banking Company will be returned to private hands Monday after state supervision. Judge A R Webber said the bank has absorbed all liabilities and stockholders bore a loss of about 105000. Blair praised stockholders for a 120 a share assessment to recapitalize at 50900 with a new 10000 surplus. The bank holds about 220000 cash and will resume normal business under directors and stockholders.
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Amherst Savings and Banking Company
E. H. Blair
A. R. Webber
Blair
Common Pleas Court
Amherst
J. J. Smythe
Webber
Miller Suggests Sunday Tour Through Medina Wooster Mansfield Bucyrus
Henry Miller of the Lorain County Automobile Club maps a Sunday driving tour for locals. The route passes Elyria Medina Wooster Mansfield Bucyrus then via routes 4 20 or 69 back to Elyria. Also announced free motion pictures for boys at the Bucyrus Y M C A at 2 pm Saturday.
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Henry Miller
Lorain County Automobile Club
Medina
Wooster
Mansfield
Bacyrus
Miller
Elyria
That City
Bucyrus
Bellevue
Norwalk
Biyria Y. M. C
Witt decries graft and indifference in Cleveland talk
Peter Witt spoke at Wurst Hall under City Club, attacking graft and political indifference, slamming tariffs as an international swindle. He contrasted Cleveland’s past under Tom Johnson with current city corruption and land scandals, urging greater public engagement.
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Cleveland
Peter Witt
Elyria
Witt
Tom Johnson
Johnson
United States
House Passes FUE Bills and Adjourns
In Columbus Ohio on March 29 the Ohio House adjourned after five minor measures. The Daniels bill standardizes school motor buses, passing 74 to 33 with a provision that buses be bright orange. The Creesy bill creates a municipal court for Conneaut in Ashtabula county, approved 112 to 0. Other acts include canal lands sales in Fairfield county, road and street dedication rules, and a plan to cooperate with railroads on rights of way. A joint resolution proposes a public education manual on character training for schools, to be drafted for consideration by the next legislature.
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House
Conneaut
Ashtabula County
C. L. Sims
Fairfield County
Buckeye Lake
Little Walnut Creek
Cramer
W. H. Fossan
Columbiana County
State Director of Education
Ohio
Heavy vote in Chamber of Commerce director election
Votes totaled 270 by noon with expected final turnout over 300 as 399 members vote. Results not announced until the chamber membership dinner Tuesday evening after the 3 p.m. close.
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Heavy Vote Inc. of
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Famous Endurance Driver Sets Tuesday Start For Four Day Drive
Larg Cole, famed endurance driver, begins a four day drive Tuesday at 12 15 pm in Elyria. He will be handcuffed to the wheel and starve for fuel, eating only bread and milk, while touring Elyria and nearby towns. He will also bend steel bars and perform strength feats in front of the courthouse before departure. Cole, known as the Iron Man Driver, has staged endurance runs for nine years, drawing crowds as he travels the country. He avoids alcohol coffee and tea, sleeps four to five hours daily, and relies on milk bread and ice cream to sustain him during the test.
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Larg” Cole
Elyria
Chronicle-Telegram
Bouse
Cole
Sarg
Canadian Northwest Mounted Police
Royal Canadian Flying Corps
Authors of gas tax increase measure clash with auto clubs
A group of ruralist lawmakers charged that automobile clubs statewide are browbeating Governor Cooper to block the one cent gas tax increase. Representatives Dallas Sullivan and L R Bostwick, co authors of the bill, asked how clubs can ignore assembly committees and sway the governor against the people’s wishes. They said clubs seek to force users of the roads to pay.
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Columbus
Cooper
Dallas Sullivan
L. R. Bostwick
General Assembly
Myers V. Cooper
Elyria Declares May 10 Gala Day for Health Parade
Friday May 10 will be a gala day in Elyria with all county schools taking part in one of the largest Health Day programs ever held by the county school system. The event closes the Blue Ribbon health contest for 1928 29 and showcases what students can do in float making. Every school in the county is expected to participate in this countywide celebration as it winds into a parade.
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Elyria
Good Friday Observed Across Roman Catholic Churches
Good Friday rituals united Catholics and Protestants with Masses, Tenebrae offices, and cantatas as churches closed for pilgrimages. In Rome the indult ceremony at St. Peter's featured Cardinal Fruhwirth using a rod, while a Holy Cross procession drew visitors and pilgrims for the Pope's jubilee year. Pope Pius abstained from public audiences, devoting the day to meditation and prayer.
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Pontius Pilate
Rome
St. Peter’s
St. John Lateran
St. Mary Major
St. Paul's
St. Peter's
Fruhwirth
Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem
Pius
Mexican rebels claim fleet of 23 planes in latest surprise
Gen. J G Escobar, rebel chief, reports a fleet of five airplanes with synchronized machine guns and six Curtiss bombers forming part of a planned federal assault. He says the air force will rain death on Gen. Calles's troops, and notes a red federal plane that killed civilians at Torreon and Jiminez was shot down near Jiminez after entering a trap.
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Juarez
Mex
J. G. Escobar
P. E. Calles
Escobar
Torreon
Jiminez
Cemetery work advances with sale of Brookdale lots likely by May
Work on Brookdale cemetery on Oberlin road progresses rapidly this spring with shrubs and trees to be planted before lot sales, expected in April or by May 1. A temporary wooden bridge is being built over the creek and a new roadway at Murray Ridge entrance. Also reported is the theft of a 30x500-20 tire from an auto parked in the courthouse yard belonging to Henry Sandrock of 214 Wolf Court.
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Brookdale Cemetery
Oberlin Road
John N. Eldt
Murray Ridge
Court House
Henry Sandrock
Wolf Court
Cadman to Write Daily for Chronicle Telegram
Beginning Monday April first the Chronicle Telegram will publish daily articles by Rev Dr Parkes Cadman radio minister of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The feature Everyday Questions will invite reader letters and permit readers to pose problems to him for response.
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Chronicle Telegram
5. Parkes Cadman
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Parkes Cadman
Cadman
Chronicle - Telegram
Change the War Department Name to National Defense
Rep B Carroll Reece of Tennessee urged renaming the War Department to National Defense or a more accurate title. He argued much of the department’s work is nonmilitary and that Kellogg peace treaty adoption means the U S cannot wage war but can defend itself, so the current term is misleading.
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Washington
War Department
National Defense Department
B. Carroll Reece
Tenn
House
Executive Department
Reece
United States
Boys Have Fine Time On Trip Home from National Capital
Thirty Elyria boys on the annual YMCA trip to Washington sent a wire from Waynesboro Pennsylvania describing a windy day and a warm welcome. They toured Annapolis Gettysburg Arlington Cemetery and Smithsonian and viewed Lindberghs plane. The group left Waynesboro at 8 am and planned to stay in Greensburg before returning to Elyria tomorrow. Grass fires in Elyria prompted hose company responses between Foster Spruce and Gulf road near city limits.
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Washington
Elyria
Annapolis
Maryland
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Hoover
Arlington Cemetery
Fort Myers
Bureau of Engraving
Washington's Monument
Pan-American Building
Red Cross
Corcoran Art Gallery
Franciscan Monastery
Smithsonian Museum
Charles A. Lindbergh
Waynesboro
Greensburg
Foster
Spruce
Gulf Road
City Limita
Chicago Pastor Shot During Parish Garden Attack
The Rev. C. A. Eisenwick, pastor at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, was shot in the head and critically wounded while tending the parish garden. Police captured Gaetano Menna, 46, after a brief chase. he said to retaliate over his son’s arrest for looting the parish poor box.
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Chicago
C. A. Eisenwick
Holy Ghost Catholic
Ersenwick
Hem
Pollis
Gaetano Menna
Eisenwick
Menna
Five Suits Filed Against B and O Railroad Injury Case
Five members of the Albert Eglin family filed common pleas court actions against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad seeking a total of 14 235 dollars. They allege the crossing collision at Medina County State Route occurred after they stopped and looked both ways, with obscured tracks by high banks and no warning from the locomotive. Claims list Mary 8 2900 Thomas 1 2500 Albert father 2985 Helen 5 2500 Hilda 7 2900.
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Medina County
Common Pleas Court
Baltimore and Ohio Ailroad
Albert Eglin
B. ‘and O. Railroad
Helen Eglin
Hilda Eglin
Flames Destroy Dwelling On Cook Road
North Olmsted March 23 a two story frame dwelling owned by Archie Barnard on Cook Road near the Lorain County line was nearly destroyed by fire early this morning. A brigade of fifteen firefighters and the North Olmsted chemical squad fought for an hour and a half as the second story and attic burned away. The house contents were saved and the roof blaze started from shingles ignited by sparks from the chimney. A neighbor alerted the family after seeing the roof ablaze. The fire response was aided by favorable wind conditions and rapid alarm response.
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Lewis Lamb
North Olmsted
Archie Barnard
Cook Road
Lorain
North Olmsted Chemical Fire Squad
Barnard
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