Magnificent M. E. Church Opens with Mother’s Day Service
A large Elyria crowd attended the opening service in the new Elyria Magnificent M. E. Church auditorium though construction is unfinished. Rev. Dr. Edwin Kirby preached on Behold Thy Mother, linking motherly love to God’s love. A nearly 11,000 dollar building fund subscription was raised during the service. Dedication begins next Sunday with Bishop Henderson preaching at 10 45 A M and again in the evening continuing through May 24.
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Elyria
Methodist Episcopal Church
Edwin Kirby
Christ
Kirby
Henderson
Spelling Winners Named in County Tournament at La Grange
Wellington and Camden tied for first in the county spelling contest held Saturday in La Grange under County Superintendent E C Seale. Written results show firsts in each grade and high school with multiple towns winning awards.
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Wellington
Camden
LaGrange
E. C. Seale
Martha Sinerson
Amherst Village
Melya Snyder
Elyria Township
Jennia Machinski
la Grange Village
Avon Lake Village
Card Baumgardner
Wellington Village
Marjorrie Reisinger
Grafton Township
Lloyd Reinhardt
Camden Township
Penfield Township
Columbia Township
East Carlisle
Eaton Township
Avon Village
Amherst Township
Avon Lake Township
Cleveland Man New Assistant War Secretary
Col Leonard Porter Ayres vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company Cleveland Ohio has been assigned to active duty and ordered to the office of the assistant secretary of war effective May 17 The war department says Ayres will assist acting Secretary Davis in working out a comprehensive procurement program for the war department.
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Washington
Leonard Porter Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Cleveland
Ohio
War Department
Col. Ayres
Davis
Party of Four Found Drinking. Two Arrested on Oberlin Road
Police found four youths in a car on Oberlin road. William Orr faced disorderly conduct charges and Esther McLaughlin, intoxication. The others were not arrested. McLaughlin paid a $1 fine and costs this morning. Orr planned to appear in court later.
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Oberlin Road
William Orr
Esther McLaughlin
Nichols Block
Migs McLaughlin
Three Die in Auto Crash in Toledo and Other Weekend Wrecks
At Toledo Broadway crash killed Frank Meeman and injured Marie Meeman Claude Griffith and Tona Isabel when their car collided with H P Berdan's vehicle. In Columbus two died after an auto trolley collision and nine injured. In Tiffin Virgil Fox was struck by a speeding vehicle and seriously hurt. the driver fled.
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Toledo
Frank Meeman
Marie Meeman
Claude Griffith
Tona Isabel
Griffith
H. P. Berdan
Mrs. Meeman
Columbus
Mercy Hospital
Tiffin
Death of Mrs Joseph Alten in Avon
The sudden death of Mrs. Joseph Alten occurred early Sunday morning. She is survived by her husband Joseph M and children Virginia Philadelphia Albert Cora Bell Keyes Los Angeles Thelma Cleveland Edmund Geraldine Jackson Alberta Cleveland Bernard Joseph Pauline Gilbert at home. Funeral at St Marys Church Avon May 13 at 10 a.m. The deceased was the daughter of John Snyder.
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Joseph Alten
Joseph M
Virginia
Philadelphia
Albert
Cora Bell Keyes
Los Angeles
California
Thelma
Cleveland
Edmund
Geraldine Jackson
Alberta
Bernard
Joseph
Pauline
Gilbert
St. Mary's Church
Avon
John Snyder
Defense plan focuses on discrediting state's key witnesses
William D. Shepherd faces murder charges in the death of his millionaire ward William Nelson McClintock. The defense plans to attack the credibility of state witnesses, with Clarence Darrow to aid as an advisory witness and to discredit Dr. George Fosberg. The strategy targets co defendant Charles Farman and others, including witnesses from Minneapolis, asserting Farman as a dubious physician and leader of a hidden medical school.
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Chicago
Wiliam D. Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Millonaire
Clarence Darow
Fosberg
Darrow
Leopold-Loeb
Richard Loeb
Loeb
Mine Stegman 78 Hit By Auto At Street Corner
Mrs Justina Stegman aged 78 of 1409 Middle Avenue was seriously injured when she stepped into Middle Avenue and 15th Street and was struck by an auto driven by Lawrence Kelly of Norwalk. She suffered a bad fracture of her lower right leg and was taken to the hospital by Taylor's ambulance after witnesses described confusion at the crossing.
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Justina Stegman
Middle Avenue
15Th Street
Lawrence Kelly
Norwalk
Taylor
Autos collide and theft report highlight city brief
An auto belonging to H J Pelletier was badly damaged in a collision at Beebecourt and Cleveland street. The other driver fled. identity unknown. A woman reported a handbag stolen at the New York Central depot containing cash totaling 19.50. Four traffic violators were fined ten dollars each with most fines suspended. Mrs Harry Coates was injured in a separate road accident and taken to Memorial hospital. The Cleveland Illuminating Co. suit against Suburban Realty Co. and Guardian Title & Trust Co. is before Judge Wilcox's jury.
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H. J. Pelletiers
Beebecourt
Cleveland Street
Pelletier
William Knight
Grafton
New York Central
Harry Coates
East Nineteenth Street
Cleveland
Cleveland Road
Ridgeville
Memorial Hospital
Cleveland Illuminating Co
Suburban Realty Co
Guardian Title & Trust Co
Wilcos
Second Congregational Church Starts Drive For 60 000 Edifice
The Second Congregational Church opened a drive for a 60 000 dollar edifice under Rev. C. F. Wiseman. July 1 construction is planned after a morning goal of 10 000 dollars was reached, aided by a 1900 dollar gift and a 200 dollar contribution from a widow. The church, the sole Protestant church on the West Side, has strong Sunday School roots and 24 new members were admitted at Easter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Congregational Church
C. F. Wiseman
Operators Seek New Injunction Against Miners
Wheeling, May 11. Operators filed a bill in federal court seeking a new injunction to replace the current one against United Mine Workers and its leaders. The move targets John L. Lewis Philip Murray Van A. Butler Lee Hail Wm Roy G W Savage Frank Ledvinka John Xongue W T Roberts Joseph Angelo and others. Six defendants were served as counsel moved to overturn last Friday's modification of the existing injunction.
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Wheeling
W. Va
United Mine Worker
Hitchman Coal Company
John Mitchell
West I Vrginia-Pittsburgh Coal Company
International
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
van A. Butter
Lee Hail
Ohio
Wm. Roy
G. W. Savage
Frank Ledvinka
John Xongue
W. T. Roberts
Joseph Angelo
Cotton admits killing man during guitar playing in rooming house
Enderson Cotton 35, a Black man, is jailed on murder charges in Dayton Ohio after admitting he shot Charles Champion, another Black man, in a rooming house kitchen. Cotton briefly paused his guitar before firing one shot. Champion died at the scene as officers arrived.
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Dayton, O
Enderson Cotton
Negrots
Charles Champion
Cotton
Henderson
Mayor resigns as mayoralty not for a married woman
Mrs. Dora Whiston of Holloway resigns from the St Clairsville Ohio mayor's office saying the position is no place for a married woman and that an exacting old maid would clean up the town.
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ST. Clairsville
Dora Whiston
Holloway
Mother Deserts Infant In Taxi On Mother's Day
Dayton police seek Pearl Coucher 22 of Danville Kentucky on charge of child desertion after she left her fourteen month old child in a taxi on Mother's Day and gave the driver a note to drop it at an address. The taxi delivered the child to Joe Coucher, the former husband, who is away. He says the court gave custody to the mother but will care for the child. He suspects she came to Dayton to abandon the child with another man.
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Dayton
Pearl Coucher
Danville, Ky
Coucher
Joe Coucher
Canton
Kentucky
Two Killed in Plane Mishap in Salt Lake City
In Salt Lake City on May 11 funeral plans were set for A. Claron Nelson former Western Division Air Mail Service superintendent and World War veteran, and two 15 year old Salt Lake City youths Grant Christensen and Russell De Lage who died in a plane crash after takeoff. The craft went into a side-slip during ascent. In Knoxville, an unconscious unknown aviator was hospitalized after a crash nearby, condition grave.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
A. Claron Nelson
Western Division Air Mail Service
Here
Nelson
Grant Christensen
Russell de Lage
Knoxville
Tenn
Wont Extend Betting Probe Across Regions
Columbus May 11. Attorney General Crabbe says agitation against pari mutuel betting at Beulah Park will not be extended to Maple Heights Cleveland and Coney Island Cincinnati. Those opposing Beulah Park betting will pursue a general court ruling on the legality of the new pari mutuel system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Beulah Park
Maple Heights
Cleveland
Coney Island
Cincinnati
Crabbe
Supreme Court Rules for Southern Pacific in Troop Transport Suit
Southern Pacific Company wins in the Supreme Court, reversing a Court of Claims decision. The case sought 147,028 dollars in additional pay for transporting troops and discharged soldiers during the war period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Southern Pacific Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Court of Claims
Ohio Eyes Large State Forest Expansion Plan
Ohio seeks to enlarge its forestry program to acquire 500000 acres of idle land for reforestation and timber self sufficiency. State forester Edmund Secrest says current holdings total 12000 acres across 12 state forests and urges faster appropriation for broader acquisition and park use.
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Columbus
Ohio
Edmund Secrest
International News Service
Secrest
Hope Today to Release Bodies From Damaged Steamer
Major Donald H. Connolly said the steamer Norman lying 16 miles below Memphis would likely loosen enough to release victims' bodies late today. A patrol of fast motor boats will search the river as rescue divers proved impossible due to the Mississippi current. Government engineers began battering decks and walls after abandoning divers, hoping to free more remains.
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Memphis
Tenn
Donald H. Connolly
United States Engineers
Norman
Mississippi
Burns Cause Four Deaths in Two Explosions
At Lonuvan Ohio three people died and two others were in serious condition after coal oil explosions fueled by oil used to ignite kitchen fires. Victims include Mrs. Sarah Webb 45 Mrs. Asa Long 35 and daughter Helen 14. Floyd Webb and Virginia Long are in critical condition. In Cleveland two year old June Marie Heck died from burns when a celluloid comb caught fire from a stove and set her dress alight. Her father received a blood transfusion in a bid to save her.
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Lonuvan
Sarah Webb
Asa Long
Helen
Floyd Webb
Virginia Long
Cleveland
Marie Heck
Cragrin Falls
Richard H. Marshall Dies at Massillon State Hospital
Richard H. Marshall died at State Hospital Massillon on Saturday at noon aged forty eight. Survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Andrew Marshall of 567 Turner Street a daughter Blanche and three sisters and a brother. Funeral Tuesday at two from Sudro Funeral Home with Ray Williams of Lorain officiating burial in Ridge Lawn Cemetery.
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Richard H. Marshall
State Hospital
Massillon
Andrew Marshall
Turner Street
Blanche J
Sudro
Ray. Williams
Lorain
Ridgelawn
Mississippi governor says Ford suit not state attitude
NOT STATE S ATTITUDE JACKSON Miss May 11 Governor Whitfield declared that the 12 000 000 damage suit against the Ford Motor Company filed last week by the state revenue agent does not represent the attitude of the state government and citizens toward foreign capital London May 11 A famous American surgeon is in Rome conferring with Mussolini s personal physician Dr Bastinelli regarding a possible operation on the Italian premier
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Jackson
Miss
Whitfield
Ford Motor Company
State Revenue Agent
London
Rome
Mussolini
Bastinelli
Hindenburg arrives in Berlin amid huge, orderly welcome
President elect Paul von Hindenburg arrived in Berlin to a massive show of support with thousands of police guarding the route to Wilhelmstrasse. A half million spectators lined the march to the palace as dignitaries greeted him. no violence occurred, though earlier trouble in Oderburg left two dead.
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Berlin
Paul Hindenburg
Luther
Vor Seckt
Terrstrasse
Hindenburg
Wilhelmstrasse Palace
Oscar von Hindenburg
Col. von Feldmann
Brandenburg
Oderburg
Rites Tonight for Samuel Magrath 88 in Canton
Samuel Magrath 88 died at his home 921 East Avenue Saturday after a brief illness. He leaves a wife, a brother Joseph Magrath of Linwood Kansas and a sister Mrs Rev Anthony Freyberger of Washaw Indiana. He belonged to Elshia Commandery No 60 Masons Knights of Pythias Canton and First Christian Church. Services are 7:30 p.m. at his East Avenue home and 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Christian Church Canton with Rev Welsheimer officiating. Burial at Westlawn cemetery.
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Samuel Magrath
East Avenue
Joseph MaGrath
Linwood
Kansas
Anthony Freyberger
Washaw
Indiana
Elshia
Knights of Pythias of
Canton
First Christian Church of
W. L. Burner
First Christian Church
Welsheimer
Westlawn Cemetery
State Convention of Religious Education Meet Planned
Arthur T. Arnold of the State Council of Religious Education will meet local organizers in this city at the Y M C A on Tuesday May 12 at 7 30 p m to finalize plans for the upcoming State Convention in June. No injuries reported after the freighter Mohican fire leads to scuttling near Jacksonville.
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Arthur T. Arnold
State Council of Religious Education
Jacksonville
Fia
Clyde Steamship Company
Mohican
Tulsa
Tampa
Jockey Benjamin Marinelli In Unchanged Condition
New York May 11 The condition of jockey Benjamin Marinelli was reported unchanged at Mary Immaculate hospital after a fractured skull from a jam at the Jamaica track Friday. He has not regained consciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Benjamin Marinelli
Mary Immaculate Hospital
Jamaica
Chiropractor Odier Charged in Diptheria Linked Death
Odier a chiropractor of Rittman pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in common pleas court over Irene Blough who died after a weeks long treatment and a later diphtheria diagnosis. County Health Officer C D Barrett led the case with grand jury evidence. Odier posted a $1000 bond and no trial date was set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth
C.d.barrett
Odier
Crabbe Denies Intervention for Gas Consumers
Attorney General Crabbe told Governor Donehey he cannot intervene for smaller municipalities in the Logan Gas Company case before the State Utilities Commission. He said the department is the commission's legal adviser and will not take an adversary stance in either the gas or telephone rate cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Crabbe
Donehey
Logan Gas Company
State Utilities Commission
Obie Bell Telephone Company
Rotary Club Meeting Notes and Baby Meek Obituary
Tomorrow noon at the Congregational Church in Gates Room the Rotary Club meets with members and guests including wives. Director Camzo will discuss Our Boys and Gira. Betty Meek, infant daughter of Charles Meek, died at Memorial Hospital. funeral services were held the same day with Welsh funeral directors.
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Congregational Church
Gates Room
Rota
Camzo
Recreation Council
Cleveland
Gira
Baby Meek
Bies
Betty Meek
Charles Meek
North Qin: Street
Memorial Hospital
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M. E
WAR
Fernebes
Henry J
Wernekes
Jacob H. Hopkins
William Shoemaker
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Irwin Kuvert
Columbia Steel Company
Mit
Ano
William D. Shepherd
Stegman
Hinkson
John Barnum
C. A. Heiderich
J. L. Oppert
Ed Freidenstein
Justin Minnich
Lake Avenue
West Street
Tate Forests
Rickard Marshall
Massillor
Red Movement
Edith Hasel
Walter Johns
Rotarians
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