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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1928
Page
8
Eight thousand couples in Berlin are legally separated annually, a figure that doubles pre war levels. The jump reflects widespread societal disruption and changing marital norms in the postwar period.
The piece surveys chemistry's vast impact from nitrogen fixation to synthetic dyes and rayon, noting the US lead in chemical manufacturing, Mellon Institute research, and industrial applications. It credits chemists with medical and industrial progress and foresees a growing role for substitutes as natural stores dwindle.
Diet and health column answers readers on calories and dieting. It covers counting calories, milk diets, and dangerous tonics, plus notes on plain sodas, ice creams, and snacks with caloric estimates. It lists how to obtain pamphlets, and marks notable birthdays of Col. Henry S Graves Julia Arthur Edgar W Howe and Rear Admiral Ralph Earle.
Abe Martin muses on the small share of people who rise above mediocrity in golf and in all callings. He laments the lack of fancy shovels and emphasizes the value of solid, reliable horses whether in politics business or family life.
Yesterday and today anniversaries recalling key events from 1721 to 1926 plus a note on a German aviator and a British official birthday. Highlights include Greenland mission start, New Orleans hospital act, Kilauea lava lake, and figures like Jesse B. Thomas Oscar Straus and Sir Ronald Lindeau.
The report notes Brazil’s national holiday commemorating discovery, a Bahamas shipwreck death toll of 170 from seventy five years ago, and the Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville ending Confederate victory sixty five years past. Delegates arrive for a two week Girl Scout conference in Budapest, and the American Alumni Council opens its fifteenth annual conference at the University of Minnesota to discuss grads’ roles.
William C. Deming criticizes the Brookhart bill aimed at placing all pre March 8 1927 prohibition bureau staff into the classified civil service without examination. He warns of chaos as old operatives, with varied records, could be deemed fit by the commissioner's sole opinion. The measure leaves the entire sift to the prohibition commissioner.
The speaker argues against snap judgments on civil service for prohibition officials. He warns the Brookhart bill would undermine open competition and risk congressional criticism for breaking faith with thousands awaiting appointment. He questions the feasibility of a single officer separating a large workforce and emphasizes the need for a year to assess the commission's work.
Cattlemen in the area have begun a fight against large numbers of wild range horses roaming cattle districts. Horses, many broom tails from lapsed allotments, strip grass and water holes, threatening cattle. Indians on New Mexico reservations also hold thousands of these horses. a herd of over 1,000 was driven to El Paso from New Mexico by rangers to protect the range.
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