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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1924
Page
3
Charles P. Rakim, a trusted Kanawha County Jail inmate, reportedly walked out yesterday while serving a ten month sentence in federal court for a transportation related offense. The incident was under investigation and details remain limited.
An American wife of Brig. Gen Edward Spears writes the novel Jane: Qui Stranger under Mary Borgeeiee, claiming it exposes a misalliance in Begational society. English readers debate the book amid rumors of high Peace Conference circles and influential hosts.
ABE MARTIN mocks May poetry, arguing poets overstate the month’s charm. He satirizes May as a season of sunshine and sensuous imagery, contrasting rustic rural scenes and humorous misprints in a playful regional voice.
Daily market sheet shows Butter extra per lb at 40 cents and various produce items with prices and weights including Eggs firsts at 39 a dozen, Apples and Strawberries priced per crate, Beans and Cucumbers listed, Potatoes and Onions per crib, and other staples such as Cheese and Poultry with price quotes for the current period. The list features multiple items with unit prices and quantity indicators, reflecting a broad local produce market.
A pedestrian is bumped by a car and the driver checks the fender and asks about insurance. The vignette contrasts practical concern with a promoter of professional charm and a gossiping, talkative older man praising a busy lawyer.
An advertisement promotes Dave's Mentha-Pepsin as a universal stomach remedy. It claims rapid relief from indigestion, gastritis, and related distress, with a money back guarantee and large past sales in New Jersey. Doctoring claims include banishing catarrh of the stomach and reducing nervousness, headaches, and dizziness when the stomach is healthy.
About half the world’s cork comes from Portugal, while child labor appears in Chinese factories with eight year olds employed in production.
May 20 Huntington notes list visits and outings. Guests include Will Baum and family from Penfield with Mr. and Mrs. HI Solids. Mrs. Conrad Naegele and sons John and Antone at Ashland. Mrs. H L Reynolds of Elyria stayed with L D Gillette family. Funeral attendance covers Mrs Chas Regal in Akron and Mrs Polly Peete with Mrs Ricket at Daher's Crossing. Out-of-town mourners came from New London Elyria and Bellefontaine.
Satur day and Sunday visits by Solida and Crile families. Cleveland guests at Naegele home. Venezuela coffee production cited. Odds and ends include a Wisconsin woman taming wild partridges and a Chamberlain mail order offer for cough remedies and salve with prices and cautions.
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