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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1933
Page
4
A colonel complains about an old hunter bought on installments saying it won’t hold its head up. The dealer replies that is its pride and promises results once fully paid. Also a joke about onion sets planted upside down yields a cheeky corrective remark.
Readings from Peiping report a potential mass evacuation of about 1,000 Japanese residents from districts near the Japanese legation as Chinese mobs threaten. Japanese bombers circled the city while unidentified Chinese attacked a sentry outside the legation. no bombs fell. U S Consulate reported Japanese aircraft reconnoitering Tientsin amid widespread panic.
A reader questions whether Ohio gas tax revenues are properly spent, urging funds to stay with road projects. He suggests hiring unemployed workers at two dollars a day and using cash for road material to boost employment and economic activity. The letter is signed by Earle Woodruff from Oberlin New York, dated July 9 1926, and a second short obituary note for Emile Beliner is included.
Harold Brandt of Pittsfield, former league president, refused to sanction an affiliation with the Ohio Farmers League over foreclosure protests by the Farm and Home Protective League. He resigned as president as the local group voted to join the Ohio Farmers League, saying the original league's success justified continuing independently. He adds a new organization will aid those in distress as before, with no expected friction between groups. The article ends with a note that every Chinese loves tracing his family history.
The Day's News highlights a two hundred million dollar Radio City project in New York City backed by Rockefeller interests. It includes a 6200 seat music hall, broadcasting offices and shops promoting music. The piece urges parents to start children in music and notes a Majestic refrigerator valued at 8900 dollars.
The editorial notes the delay in filling the county commissioner vacancy after Chas. E. Tucker’s death. It warns of political pressure from Republican groups and others, urges a timely choice, and favors a candidate in prime physical condition with experience and training to handle heavy duties and large budgets. It questions候 W. J. Hillier due to age and stresses the need for vigor and availability.
The Pearl of the Adriatic loses its island status as a brick stone concrete road bridge five and a half miles long unites Venice with Italy. Since 1898 Venetians debated a mainland link. Mussolini ordered the project in 1931. The highway brings motor horns exhaust and new urban rhythms to gondola era.
A volatile scene unfolds when a husband, fresh from a rainy vacation, contemplates self harm with a gas oven. His wife admonishes him, while he jokes about charging death by own action and vows to return to work with a scorched face.
A lyrical fantasized dream outlines wealth and freedom from work. The speaker imagines daily life aboard yachts and in luxury locations such as the Thousand Islands and breezy highlands, sailing to Spain or Borneo, avoiding worries, and living free from city noise and politics.
Elyria officials say four council members Jude R. Jones William Stolzenburs George Goodman and Otis Koehn will lead Cascade Park cleanup with a footbridge over the river. A local brewing rep discusses possible weak liquor laws and free rides to Cleveland for Lorain County residents if the county goes dry.
Lorain officials will consider a recommendation to keep the municipal bathing beach on the waterworks property at Oberlin Avenue closed for the summer due to missing safety devices. Last year three persons were crowned at the city beach and lawsuits totaling 330,60o have been filed against the city.
Traffic on the Green Line halted for hours after a car collided with a truck loaded with asphalt on Oberlin Road. One female passenger sustained a minor injury in the May 21, 1923 Chronicle-Telegram report.
County commissioners announced after meeting with the state highway director that reconstruction of the Lake Road from Lorain to the Cuyahoga County line will proceed this summer. Oberlin College trustee Andrew H. Noah of Akron donated 6,000 to buy thousands of books for the college library. Oberlin College faculty approved a radical change to the cut system allowing unlimited excused cuts without credit loss. more than six unexcused cuts will reduce one credit hour.
London officials study using waste glass to form road surface blocks that would be nearly indestructible with corrugated texture to prevent skidding. The proposal envisions highways built from glass blocks, reflecting experimental era optimism in new materials and transport theory.
Today’s anniversaries list births and deaths of historical figures. William Bradford born in Ireland in 1663, died in New York in 1752. Stephen Girard born in France in 1750, died in Philadelphia in 1831. John Stuart Mill born in England in 1806, died in 1873. Rose H. Lathrop, linked to Nathaniel Hawthorne, born in 1851 in Lenox Massachusetts, died at Hawthorne in 18__.
A history page notes Christopher Columbus dies in Spain in 1506, living under poverty. It recalls the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration by Presbyterians of North Carolina and the 1932 transatlantic flight of Amelia Earhart.
Professor Allan Nevins of Columbia University, a recent Puntger prize recipient, is described as a historian born at Camp Point, Illinois, forty three years ago. The item notes his stature as a U S Senator Augustine connection remains unclear.
The text notes several figures with birthdays: Ergan of Connecticut born in Thompson, 59 years ago. Marion Butler former U S Senator from North Carolina and rural free delivery author born 70 years ago. Maj Gen B Frank Cheatham retired U S A born 66 years ago. Mrs Sigrid Unser Norwegian novelist and Nobel prize winner born 51 years ago.
The new General Electric Auto Radio scores with amazing tone and volume, a super heterodyne with automatic volume control, easy and quick installation, and a price tag of 34 dollars and 95 cents.
For over thirty years Day's Hardware has sold B. P. S best paint with pure white lead zinc oxide linseed oil and dryers. B. P. S outwears rivals and covers about 775 square feet per gallon per coat. Expect price increases. order now to save. Also selling used refrigerators from five dollars, used washing machines, and a cabinet gas range with regulator and auto lighter.
A fine line of tennis rackets at special prices new fresh balls rackets restrung like new and sporting goods and fishing tackle for the outdoors man and woman.
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