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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1937
Page
10
Senator Ashurst leads the challenge to the presidents court plan while Sen Burton Wheeler defies the White House. Nebraska’s Edward Burke staunchly supports New Deal reforms amid shifting loyalties in Washington and Montana politics.
Edward C. Yellowley head of the federal alcohol tax unit in Chicago was cited for contempt of court by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson. The incident centers on courtroom contempt findings against Yellowley in a federal proceeding.
Rome reports Dr Ferruccio Zanier rediscovered the secret varnish used on Cremona Stradivarius violins. He attributes tonal softness to a varnish based on ammoniac rubber resin, discarding oil and linking the craft to Gaspare da Salo and earlier varnish developments. The claim follows years of failed attempts to reproduce the famed instrument maker’s methods.
Carbonado, once a major western coal operation, is now a ghost town as water floods the 1,000-foot main slope of the Carbonado mine. The shaft, source of 10,000,000 tons of coal over 50 years, is likely blocked for good, ending a 25-mile tunnel network.
Directory of local churches with ministers and service times including First Methodist at Third and Court Streets and Princeton Avenue parsonage. Details show Sunday School times 9:30 to 10:30 and morning services at 10:45 or 10:30 with evening activities and midweek meetings. Also notes the Sunday School Church of God at 406 West Ave with English and German services and calendar exceptions for German services.
A long mixed schedule lists services across multiple churches and halls including Second Congregational Corner Lake Ave and West Street Dr A E Kemp pastor with Sunday School at 9 30 and service at 10 48, Christian Endeavor at 6, and other denominations at various times and locations including First Baptist Second Street and Middle Avenue Rev R W Neighbour pastor and German services at 9 45 and 6 45.
Located 35 miles southeast of Seattle the Carbonado mine opened by the big four railroad leaders and later owned by the University of California Stanford University and the Croker estate. The town once housed 2000 residents and supplied coal for ships and the Southern Pacific Railway. The mine’s last fatal accident claimed Donald Birkett who died when crushed by a mine car on the final shaft.
Pastor Rev R A White announces schedule for Jones Chapel on Seventeenth Street with Sunday services Sunday School at 9 30 A M morning service at 10 30 A M and Evening Service at 6 00 P M. Midweek meeting planned for Wednesday.
Rev. Juline Kish pastor at 206 West River Street conducts Sunday School at 10:00 AM Hungarian Service at 11:00 AM Young People's Service at 1:00 PM and Evening Service at 7:30 PM. The text also mentions King and Prager with unclear reference.
Local churches list service times and contact notes including Gospel Mission Holy Cross Shiloh Baptist Pilgrim Community Grace Lutheran In Christ First Church of Christ Scientist and others. Daily Bible studies and Sunday school times are noted along with pastors and street locations for community reference.
2567 Middle Ave. Rev. J. A. Watson, Pastor, 11:00 Church Service and 6:00 P M Epworth League. Evening Service at 7:30. Choir practice Friday at 207.
Bethany Baptist on Seventeenth Street announces services led by Rev. CG C Smith. Sunday school at 9:30, morning service at 11:00, evening service at 6:00, and Y P U at 6:00 with prayer service Wednesday at 7:20 PM.
Sir Edmund Davis of Chilham near Canterbury pledges five pounds to every baby born in the parish during Coronation year.
Visitors from distant realms converge on London for the coronation era. Among them the Sultan of Trengganu, ruler of Khat razarh in India, arrived recently at Victoria Station to witness the event.
Lancaster and York counties in Eastern Pennsylvania developed the American rifle to replace European designs. Daniel Boone used the new rifle on frontier exploits in Kentucky, and the weapon earned the name Kentucky Rifle from a Lancaster County gunsmith.
The Holzworth brothers who tended the water intake crib five miles off Cleveland Lake Erie end their eight month vigil after a living radio message informs them of their mother’s death. Their mother, 76, had long awaited their return as her husband had served as crib tender prior for 15 years.
Prof. W H Ewing of Muskingum College says one third of English words are mispronounced and 95 percent are everyday words. A speech-recording machine was installed by the college speech department for registering students to speak into.
Harold G. Coed recounts coronation customs tracing God Save the King to Solomon and notes Queen Victoria’s 1838 ceremony as unusually simple. It covers ceremony steps, hymns, oaths, regalia, and the crowd’s chorus, ending with Victoria’s long reign and death at 81.
London reports Sir Malcolm Campbell will not suspend speed attempts and shifts focus to high speed motor boating. He plans to test a new one man craft on Loch Lomond in June after 18 months of model testing and tank trials as he refuses to reveal the design.
A new electric prod device invented by Roy Mo Glaughlen of Pittsfield is used on balky cattle at the National Stockyards in St Louis. The broomstick mounted prod is praised by the MissourI Humane Society for easing animal management.
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