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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1939
Page
14
Fourth grade students at Edison School watch an experimental rat on a bread and milk diet after a month on bread and coffee. The two rats arrived from Cleveland last month. one weighed 82 grams and gained 11 grams, the other 77 grams and gained 85 grams to 162 grams. The children hope the first rat shows similar progress on its new diet.
Elyria’s earliest shoppers enjoy a classroom store at the Allen School. For two months pupils stocked shelves with crates boxes and cartons making a well organized mock grocery. They use a toy cash register and money then take purchases to a playhouse home. The project teaches shopping manners and orderly behavior.
Twenty lambs competed in Willows annual Lamb Derby as five lambs were run at a time by young boys. The event originated in 1933 by Charles Raglin of the Sons of the Legion to lift spirits and has become a fixed yearly town tradition.
In Midland Texas bones of a prehistoric mammoth believed to be 6 000 to 8 000 years old were found while digging a stock tank 16 miles from town. A road machine pulled by a tractor exposed a tooth tail vertebrae and leg bones at eight feet depth. Geologists consult UT geology division to gauge further exploration.
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