Bricker Relief Program Faces Supreme Test Today
In Columbus the Republican led Ohio Legislature pushes a quick decision on the 20 million relief plan. Key moves aim to ease real estate levy votes and allow borrowing from auto license funds to support poor relief, with adjournment and budget decisions hinging on passage.
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Bricker
Columbus, CO
House
House Finance Committee
Senate Taxation Committee
Ap Ebinguinring
Columbus
Welfare Department Emergency Fund
R. R. Bangham
R. Clinton
Cleveland Police Officers Speak on Traffic Safety in Oberlin
In Oberlin Ohio on May 10 several Cleveland Police Department members spoke at the Oberlin Exchange Club luncheon about promoting traffic safety through education. Captain Flanagan Gleckner and Milton Bowman of the Police Training School presented the lecture with an illustrated talk on defective vision and automobile accidents. Officers also addressed Oberlin High School pupils at their building upon request of Superintendent C E Wigton, aiming to benefit student safety awareness.
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Oberlin, O
Cleveland Police Department
Oberlin
Oberlin Exchange Club
Oberlin Rotary Club
Business Men's Club
Flanagan and
Gleckner
Bureau of Public Relations
Milton Bowman
Cleveland Police Training School
Meister
Police Department
Exchange Club
Cleveland Police
Oberlin High School
C. E. Wigton
Girl Scouts Court of Awards Honors 37 Girls
Girl Scouts of the Pine Cone Troop held their annual Court of Awards in the Industrial Arts building. Thirty five girls earned badges across homemaking, sports and games, and literature and dramatics with 315 badges awarded to 37 scouts and several first class award recipients named.
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Girl Scouts of the
Pine Cone
Industrial Arts
Bentley
T. Craig
Cerf
Arline Baldwin
Irene Bare
Betty Carson
Katherine Court
Joan Durand
Alice Fisher
Ada Fay Frost
Doris Harley
Ellen Haylor
Lois Jackson
Wendolyn Jackson
Johanna Kaufmann
Una Nilsson
Melba Portman
Katherine Sears
Elaine Spencer
Barbara Tanner
Patty Yocom
Petunia Plant Flat Offered by Wainwright Florist
Wainwright Florist offers a flat of petunia plants suitable for a porch box or flower bed. Phone 2727.
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Wainwright. Florist
Court of Awards Sees Troop Give Thanks for Captain
After the Court of Awards, refreshments were served and the girls of the troop express gratitude to Mrs George Dudley for making such a marvelous captain.
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George Dudley
Oberlin Summer Music School Returns for Ninth Year
The Oberlin Summer Music School organized by the School Music Department of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Oberlin Public Schools resumes this summer. Director Miss Hilda Magdsick leads experienced teachers and advanced students in programs for children.
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Oberlin
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Board of Education For Children
Hilda Magdsick
Conservatory
Advanced Conservatory
Grove Patterson to Speak at County 4-H Recognition Dinner
Grove Patterson editor of the Toledo Blade will address the Recognition dinner for the county 4-H Clubs Saturday evening at First Methodist church. Honors will be paid to seventy girl advisors and forty boy advisors. The county 4-H enrollment nears 1,000, with youth work vital to farmers.
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Grove Patterson
Toledo Blade
First Methodist Church
Collision injures two in Lorain and North Main crash
Two cars collided yesterday morning at the Lorain and North Main streets intersection. J. H. Hack of Ripton and a neighbor girl passenger were bruised and treated at Allen Hospital before going home. Frank Persons of Oberlin, driver of the other car, was uninjured.
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Lorain
North Main Streets
J. H. Hack
Ripton
Allen Hospital
Frank Persons
Oberlin
Nine lathes attend Union Missionary meeting at Litchfield
Nine lathes of the First Baptist church joined an all day Union Missionary Society meeting in Litchfield. Attendees included Mesdames Trick Chesbro Penis ton Farrar McDole Bahr Badger Whitney and Morris. Twenty Vine Rebekah lodge members joined a lodge initiation at Lodi. Dr and Mrs A Richards rushed to New York due to the death of her sister Mrs Nathan B Van Etten. Mrs Mary Drake is ill at her North Professor Street home.
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First Baptist Church
Union Missionary Society of the Lorain Association
Litchfield
Mesdames Trick
Chesbro
Peniston
Farrar
McDole
Bahr Badger
Whitney
Morris
Vine Rebekah Lodge
Lodi
A. Richards
New York
Nathan B. van Etten
Mary Drake
North Professor Street
Death Record Mrs Mary Cushion Fry Wellington Oh
Mrs Mary Cushion Fry 51 died at her Penfield home after a lingering illness. She leaves husband William two children Margaret and Gerald two brothers Hobart Cush ion of Indianapolis and Winfield Cushion of Cleveland. She was Wellington High School class of 1904 and attended Oberlin School of Commerce. Funeral arrangements by Keith Andrews are pending.
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Wellington
Mary Cushion Fry
Penfield
William
Margaret
Gerald
Hobart Cushion
Indianapolis
Ind
Winfield Cushion
Cleveland
Australia Seeks Settlers In Northwest Territory
Australia launches a campaign to develop and settle the Northern Territory with tax exemptions, road plans, and land-use incentives. The report also covers political debates on retirement funds, anti injunction measures, centralized purchasing, and conservation proposals.
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Australia
Northwest Territory
Canberra
Northern Territory
Weather Study Leaps Forward at Cambridge Station
Harvard weather station led by Charles F. Brooks shows radio balloon soundings expanding beyond Harvard’s early experiments. The US weather bureau, military services, and several nations now use radiosondes, with orders and imports driving rapid production and global adoption.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Weather Station
Charles F. Brooks
Blue Hill Observatory
Harvard University
Harvard
Brooks
United States
U S. Weather Bureau
Congress
Army
Navy
China
Japan
England
India
Germany
May 14 To 20 Give A Job Week Here’s How To Do It
A local notice invites readers to participate in Give A Job Week May 14 to 20. It asks residents with work to describe tasks to be done, offering to send a competent person to complete them and to call Elyria 2549 for arrangements.
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Elyria
Pension Checks Mailed On The First Of Each Month
State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson announced that old age pension checks for Lorain County will be mailed on the first of each month starting June 17, provided funds are available. May checks totaling about $26,000 cover 1,350 pensioners in Lorain County.
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Rain County
Joseph T Ferguson
Ferguson
Lorain County
Straw Hats Debut Set for May 20 in Elyria
The executive committee of the Elyria Chamber of Commerce merchants division designated May 20 as Straw Hat Day. Stores will feature displays to introduce Elyria men to the 1939 straw hat styles for summer.
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Elyria
Merchants’ Division
American Foot Size Grows Across Nation
Portland report notes feet enlarging among both genders as outdoor activity like golf keeps people on their feet. Jesse Adler, director of the National Shoe Retailers Association, cites growing feet but says overall body proportion may not increase. He predicts future generations will be physically larger.
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Portland
Ore
Jesse Adler
New York
National Shoe Retailers Association
Adler
Shoe Retailers
America
Sightless Orchestra Formed Near Kenton
An orchestra of sightless men led by Cecil Hites of Roundhead forms near Kenton and will debut soon before touring the state, showcasing music as their focus.
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Kenton
Cecil Hites
Roundhead
Give A Job Week Observed In Elyria By Local Groups
Answering the call for Give A Job Week Elyria will see support from the Ohio State Reemployment Service and several focal organizations. Chamber of Commerce members and the local American Legion post pledged cooperation to provide employment, with the service noting March April and May placement increases and a Maine hotel summer job as an example. The local office at 322 Broad Street operates 8 am to 5 pm weekdays and until noon Saturdays with registrations taken daily.
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House
Bricker
W. B. Bixler
Judiciary Committee
Bixler
J. H. McGregor
Senate
Highway Department
Frank Whittemore
State Conservation Council
Roosevelt
Ohio
Paradise
Reiners
Ohio River
Elyria
Ohio State Reemployment Service
Hay W. Luethl
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Taan
Maine
Broad Street
Fire Confined To Hotel Kitchen At The Brown
Three Elyria fires occurred this morning with minor damage. The Brown Hotel kitchen fire started from a range and spread through wall pockets but was contained by firemen who opened an exterior wall to extinguish burning studding. A sedan interior burned in a two car garage at 1618 Lake avenue and two patrolmen moved a coupe to safety. A third fire near 449 Fifteenth street caused slight damage to an automobile from a flooded carburetor and scorched ignition wires.
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Brown
Broad Street
East Avenue
Elyria
W. N. Bates
Central Fire Station
George E. Walton
Francis Callahan
J. H. Knuff
1618 Lake Avenue
Arthur Holloway
Fifteenth Street
Bankers Gather For Lorain County Banquet
Bankers and bank workers from all parts of Lorain County will meet at the Elks Hall at 6:30 tonight for the eleventh annual banquet of the Lorain County Chapter of the American Institute of Banking. Principal speaker will be Dr Harold Stonier educational director of the American Institute of Banking and executive manager of the American Bankers Association.
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Lorain County
Elks’ Hall
American Institute of Banking
Harold Stonier
American Bankers Association
Death of 14-year-old in Marion infection case
In Marion Ohio on May 10 Pr Mary Ann Roecker 14 died from an infection that developed from a pimple authorities reported.
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Marion. O
Mary Ann Roecker
Court of Appeals upholds new trial in Braithwaite v Ward case
A circuit court ruling granting a new trial in Dorothy Braithwaite versus Dick Ward for 15000 for personal injuries from a traffic crash near Oberlin on April 25 1937 is affirmed by a court of appeals. The earlier verdict favored the defendant and a 2500 verdict was returned in Carrie Brassard v Harry Belford for injuries from a Route 18 crash near Wellington on November 28 1938.
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Dorothy Braithwaite
Dick Ward
Oberlin
Court of Appeals
Guy B. Findley
D A. Cook
Carrie Brassard
Cleveland
Harry Belford
Elyria
Wellington
Treasurer appoints Stetzelbergger as assistant
State Treasurer Don H. Ebright named Paul C. Stetzelbergger of Lakewood as his assistant today at a salary of 5000 dollars a year. The 39 year old has served as assistant treasurer of Cleveland since 1934.
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Columbus
Don H. Ebright
Paul C. Stetzelbergger
Lakewood
Cleveland
Missing Lorain girl sought in state wide radio alert
The sheriff's department authorized a state wide police radio broadcast to locate Maybelle Kohn 15 of 607 West 21st street Lorain missing since Friday at home. Juvenile authorities requested the search. She has blue eyes brown hair a gray coat light complexion and weighs about 112 pounds.
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Sheriff's Department
Maybelle Kohn
West 21St Street
Lorain
Unidentified Pedestrian Dies After Springfield Crash
An unidentified approximately 45 year old pedestrian died at Springfield City Hospital after being struck by a car near Beatty Ohio southwest of Springfield.
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Springfield
IUP
Springfield City Hospital
Beatty, O
Here
Sheffield Lake board approves two new school buses
The Sheffield Lake Board of Education voted to purchase two new school buses for the 1939-40 school year to replace two older buses now in service.
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Sheffield Lake Board of Education
Reversed organ positions in three year old Joyce Bowden
An X ray shows Joyce Bowden age three has situs inversus, a condition where all internal organs are reversed or transposed in position as diagnosed by doctors.
Elks Plan Golf Tours and May Birthdays
Elyria Elks meeting announced golf tournaments on June 7 at Spring Valley, July 19 at Cherry Ridge, and August 16 at Spring Valley with a dinner after each. The lodge will select its golf team for the state tournament from players in these events.
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Elyria Elks
Apri
Herbert Cummues
L. R. Warren
Oberlin
Walter S. Kohn
C. A. Persons
Spring Valley
Cherry Ridge
Elyria Lodge
O. J. Shafer
Jim Armatase
Charles Davis
J. Warden
C. C. Spence
Mose Wider
Ul. Kohn
Jim Armitage
C. A Persons
D. W. Kothe
Joe Otten
Ed Krebs
J. M. Marshal
Eagles Variety Show Caps Elyria Aerie Season
Elyria Aerie No. 431 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles hosts a 1938 39 season finale variety show Thursday at 9 45 p m with acts from Detroit Akron Cleveland Columbus and Elyria Joe Boddy acts as master of ceremonies The lodge year ends June 4 and officer elections are set for tomorrow from noon to 8 p m The next event is the May 25 lodge meeting with a large class initiation and Memorial service for members who died in the past year.
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Elyria Aerie
Order of Eagles
Detroit
Akron
Cleveland
Columbus
Elyria
Joe Boddy
Radio Equipment For Police Department Bid Drawn
Elyria's Service Director and Mayor, as the board of control, study two bid options from RCA and Link Co for two way radio gear within a $3300 limit. Purchases likely occur next week after final review. A room has been prepared for the central broadcasting unit.
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Elyria
I D. Faxon
Joseph Q Petro
Board of Control
R. C. A. and Link Co
Central Broadcasting Unit
Elderly Woman Injured After Fall At Home
Mrs. Eliza Hoeffel, 75, of 105 Water Street, was taken to Elyria Memorial Hospital after a 7 a.m. fall from her bed caused a severe head laceration. She has been ill for a year and resides with her son Ross Hoeffel.
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Eliza Hoeffel
Water Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Ross Hoeffel
Daisy Newberger Attacked by Dog on Bell Avenue
Daisy Newberger reported being bitten on the left leg by a dog yesterday at 4 15 p m while walking past 318 Bell Avenue. The incident was reported to police and involved a local address.
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Daisy Newberger
Bell Avenue
Toledo Market Prices for Wheat Corn and Hay
Prices show No 2 red wheat at 83 86c per bushel, No 2 yellow corn around 50 53c, No 2 white oats about 84c, and rye 36c. Track quotes list various grades. flour and feeds priced by the ton or barrel with standard items including spring patent flour and middlings.
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Toledo
Jala
Sheets Eluvateer Co
Montat
Mmil
St.ou
Financial market brief with mixed scores and steady prices
The report notes mixed price movements with several score figures such as 42 and 80 while prices remain unchanged. Centralized car lets index 226 appears alongside a tally of 3,479 cases reflecting steady market activity.
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Vhicagq
Livestock Receipts Mixed with Prices and Totals
Receipts show hogs, cattle, calves, sheep and lambs with varied weights and prices. Hogs range 180 to 300 pounds at 6 and 7 plus per hundredweight, cattle include steers heavy weights and cows with values around 300 to 600, calves mixed prime to common, and sheep and lambs quoted by class and quality with several price points.
Unsettled market notes and odd poultry prices Listed
The snippet lists various farm goods and prices including live poultry with heavy birds, leghorns, and ducks, plus potato prices by state and region. It also notes a legal matter about permission to wear headcloths in courts, requested by barristers in Palestine.
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Cleveland
Supreme
Palsestine
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Joint Relief Committee
Thomas Senate
Richard Clevenger
Mrs
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Phore
Union St
Girl Scouts
Sudro - Curtis Ambulance
Mrs. Mary Cushion Fry
Coshocton
Welfare Committee
Finance
Paul Ballard
Jackson
Sederis
The
Equitable Life Assurance Sect of the
N. Y
Max M. Phillips
H. R. Rorick CO
Second Stree Elyria
Helen Flynn
John E Flynn
Alex Ergy
Michigan
Ergy
Patricia Morrow
Avon
George N Stuber
C. C. Lord
Eppley Ditch
Elsna Township
Marian Opritz
Joseph Opritz
George Conrad Reid
Ada S. Reid
Anna Rusin
William B. Amidon
Samuel Street
Preston L. Coon
K. M. Overholt
Elyria Avenue
Route 57
Irene Gallagher
Broadway
John Fitzpatrick
Erie Avenue
Brighton
Harold Dieterick
Pittsburgh
Parenthood
Wanda Mae Hecock
Preston. Coon
Elks
Eagles
Bluebird
East River
Resar’s
Chicago
Costt
Cleveland Livestul Iy
Pennsylvania St
Idaho
Florida
LaGrange
Schwartz Road
Guernsey
Fordson Tractor
McCormick-Deering
John Deere
Jonna Deere
Ciipper
Frank E. Schwartz
Clayton H. Locy
Grafton
J. Lee Klinect
DR. Pennington
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