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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1928
Page
14
The passage notes a flood of bright uniforms worn by state and municipal officials including letter carriers postal and telegraph staff custom officers engineers and police. It also mentions many private societies sporting striking attire adding color to state occasions and hints at decorations tied to a historical theme.
Fragmentary text mentions a woman press group and a debate on smoking. It notes a black minister in a robe on a street, a woman wearing a frock, and Mrs Wilcox with a husband who is a minister. It hints at church tensions and distance between congregations due to marital work in the ministry.
The Presbyterian Home near Sidney Ohio launches a statewide effort to remove the poorhouse stigma from aged men and women lacking family care. The Dorothy Love home near Sidney is the first unit, housing thirty two women and three men, with plans for more homes as needs arise. Trustees seek a 750000 endowment to stabilize funding and open a second facility for urgent cases among eighty one applicants. Dr William Oxley Thompson directs the fundraising drive.
A close of the Chandos Arms at Edgware will sever a link to the highwayman Dick Turpin. The inn, dating back nearly 900 years, features an oak paneled room said to host Turpin and an underground passage to Canons, the former Duke of Chandos mansion two miles away.
Statisticians forecast divorces in Great Britain will reach about 5,000 this year, up from 2,509 in 1922, with a table showing rising marriage failures. London lawyer Holford Knight argued while scandal has less grip, social shifts will still push more separations, despite reforms like limits on publishing divorce details.
Advocates of simplified selling faced a severe jolt when Appleton announced the sale of Finnish translation rights to V Polchiakoff s biography of the last Czarina. The purchaser is Kustannusosakeyhtio Kninja.
Spain, with centuries of history and diverse peoples, possesses more decorations and insignia than any other nation. The nation awards numerous orders of chivalry such as Charles III, Isabel la Católica, and Alfonso XII, plus civil, military, naval, and aviation honors along with over 100 commemorative medals for key events and anniversaries.
The Rev Marie Burr Wilcox, a pioneering Nebraska Methodist minister, performed an unusual rite by baptizing her grandchild. Wilcox, one of three ordained women ministers in the state, was ordained eight years ago and serves as general secretary of the Inter.
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