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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1929
Page
4
Berlin officials report 10 killed and 166 injured in May Day disturbances with 13 women and 25 policemen among the injured. About 1,000 arrested as authorities raid the north end addresses while police patrols double in affected districts. Normal work resumed as the blood path areas are cleared and barricades removed in Neukölln and the north end.
Obituaries for Esther Hammer Lydia Williams Fenlen Gleason and Wm Hamilton note multiple family survivors and funeral details. Also mentions Norweb cruise death and a Masonic lodge service. An unrelated medical advertisement for leg healing appears at article end.
Baird announced a half hour concert before the big Bungling Brothers and Sorepaush Circus at the Y M C A on Friday evening. The band may serenade Homer Rodeheaver at a recital in the Methodist Church. Circus atmosphere grows as final preparations finish and the program is released by Robert T. Moore, the Y M C A’s physical director in charge.
Rev Edwin Kirby clarified a citywide misunderstanding about Homer Rodenheaver concert tickets. He said all reserved seats are taken but about three hundred other seats remain available for tomorrow evening at the Methodist church.
City officials launch investigation into a raid described as staged by state agents and deputy sheriffs. The complainant says officers cursed his wife and him, leaving her ill at home, and requests an immediate inquiry. City Solicitor Wesley Grills of Lorain will travel to Columbus to speak with Gov. Cooper.
From 1926 to 1928 Burton served on regional government committees for Cleveland and chaired the Citizens' committee. He was elected in 1928 as a representative from Cuyahoga County in the Eighty-eighth Ohio General Assembly and led the ticket of 16 representatives. He also joined the East Cleveland Board of Education in 1928. Captain Richard De Shield, Bermuda navigator, died aged 902 with 25 grandchildren and 35 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
Oklahoma City police matron Mrs. Rose Foster says mornings in the women’s jail ward resemble beauty parlor hours as inmates spend time applying lipstick and organizing vanity cases, reflecting vanity and routine amid confinement.
A Broad Street collision occurred when an auto driven by Roy Miller of Spring Valley backed into street car No. 36. The auto’s rear was badly crushed. Motorman H. McCullough operated the street car.
In Soten Jugoslavia a farmer's son Anton Seld and Theresa Schwarzer wed with 550 guests, who stayed a week for a feast turned eating marathon. An 80 gypsy orchestra played as guests gorged on 86 suckling pigs, 4 bullocks, calves, 400 chickens, 200 geese, 200 turkeys, 440 gallons beer and 44 gallons gin.
In Cambridge Harvard professor L C Graton forecasts mining depths near two miles as science advances. He cites current mines at 7300 feet could reach about 10000 feet someday and dismisses a British plan for 12 mile holes as impractical. In Columbus Indiana Henry Monroe, township assessor, tries celery to curb tobacco chewing with his jaw needing exercise.
Oberlin reports a Rod and Gun Club gathering in American Legion rooms with 107 served supper, comedy, acrobatics, and a plan to rebuild the quarry road and stock the pond with fish. Members from Elyria Cleveland Ripton Lorain Wellington attend. coon hunt planned for May 19. prizes awarded by fishing-supply firms. Some obituary and university notes follow.
About one hundred members from nearly every county post attended the Lorain County Council banquet at the Methodist church in Wellington. Mrs. Charles Marcy of Conneaut urged the Legion and Auxiliary to defend laws and support veterans, orphans, and hospitalized ex servicemen, while urging citizens to back the Legion program.
Churchward of Elyria announced state president rere for district meeting. Mrs. Goodhue of Cleveland arrived for the district convention, guest of Mrs. Blanch Sutlis. Twenty Cleveland and twenty-five Medina members attended. she spoke in morning and afternoon sessions. Baptist note: Rev. Harold T. Nelson and Miss Rachel Shively will lead services at the Wellington church. Nelson, linked to the Scopes Trial era attorney, is Bible Hour veteran. Shively among Cleveland’s leading pianists. several musical numbers planned. Sunday School attendance has doubled in six months. Wellington church held a business meeting. petition circulates to close on Wednesday afternoons in summer from May 15 to Sept 15.
A cyclone swept through southeastern areas causing major damage and injuries. Five people were injured in several locations including Frankston and Jefferson Bullard reported damage elsewhere in Dagmar Fort Smith Brinkley Ark Leadwood and Flat River Mo. One person died in Brinkley four injured in Fort Smith with minor injuries at Dagmar. Oklahoma towns Hichita and Morris reported four injuries and extensive property damage from a mile wide tornado path. Cyclonic winds also struck near Herrin Illinois damaging crops.
Legal notice states Loula F. Ehlers has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Lulu Alice Ehlers, deceased of Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio. Appointment by probate judge A. H. CG. Wilcox of Sale County, on the 2nd day of April in 16 May 20 16.
The document proposes steps to improve coal usage data and adoption of smoke abatement codes. It calls for obtaining comparative figures on coal uses, gathering locomotive coal data with railroads, issuing consumer circulars, studying commercial stokers for Ohio coal suitability, classifying coals by recommended用途, and educating retailers to match sales to proper coal uses.
Prosecutor Cunningham revealed that Little and Cole used decoy girls at Lancaster parties while posing as phonograph salesmen in February. Nine girls, largely high school students, are linked to the investigation as affidavits allege wine was served at various parties. Gov Myers Cooper criticized the agents and acting Prohibition Commissioner Beetham suspended them pending his return.
Umberto Pucciani a 39 year old real estate broker from Birmingham WNY wedlock with Lillian Bowden 30 of Elyria before a Justice of the Peace Antonio Epitano 37 laborer from Lorain officiated the ceremony with Anna Maria Smilaldi 28 Lorain also wed before a Justice of the Peace
Prices for butter eggs poultry and produce vary by region with quotes listed for Ohio New York Florida Alabama and North Carolina. Hogs cattle calves sheep and beets show mixed movements as buyers adjust. Chicago and Toledo grain futures provide supplementary benchmarks.
Resigns leadership as Toledo livestock market shows mixed results with hogs higher by 25 cents, heavies 11.25 to 11.50, mediums 11.50 to 11.70, Yorkers around 10.03 to 11.60, good pigs 10.50 to 11. Cattle light demand steady, calves and sheep and lambs noted as light trading and slow. An unrelated handbag ad and Rodeheaver concert details also appear. listing concert at First Methodist church 8:18 p.m. admission 50 cents.
A Battle Creek physician says constipation causes much misery and introduces Rexall Orderlie tablets. The tablet attracts water to loosen dry waste for a gentle natural movement without habit formation. Chew at night and wake up improved. 24 for 25e at Rexall Drug Stores.
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