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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1929
Page
15
The article reflects on the Big Six meet at Oberlin praising athletes for their strong healthy physiques. It contrasts college athletics with lifelong health, noting many ex-athletes decline activity after graduation and highlighting Gates Home for Crippled Children to show value of physical resilience and lasting health.
A county newspaper urges ongoing highway safety work after noting 390 railroad grade crossings were removed from the Federal Highways system in 1928. The Public Roads Bureau totals show 4,291 crossings eliminated from 1917 to 1928, with Wisconsin leading in 1928 removals and Texas tops for 1917–28. The piece ends with a sly jab about industry and "a few first-class enemies."
Reader questions on goiter causes and iodine treatment, with medical guidance from Dr. Peters. The column explains thyroid location, exophthalmic goiter signs, iodine dosing, and dietary sources, noting iodine should be prescribed by a doctor and giving pamphlet details.
Ruby the rhinoceros, the Cincinnati zoo’s sole rhino for four decades, has died. Valued at $20,000, she drew crowds, especially children, who named her in a contest.
The operatic star Marian Talley contemplates retirement and purchasing a farm, reflecting on days past when charm and song were left to conjecture and fearing she may never sing again.
Today's anniversaries recall Gen Nathaniel Greene born in Warwick Rhode Island in 1742 and Cornelius Vanderbilt founder of the Vanderbilt fortune born on Staten Island New York in 1794. Greene died in Savannah Georgia in 1786. Vanderbilt built a vast shipping and railroad legacy on the American East Coast.
Diced in New York City, Jan 1817, George W Johnson governor of Kentucky at the Civil War outbreak, served as private in the Confederate army. Born near Georgetown, Ky, killed at Shiloh on April 9, 1862. 1818 Amelia J Bloomer reformer born at Homer, WN, advocate of the Bloomer costume.
A compilation notes deaths and notable births or events linked to dates. Includes Julia Ward Howe and Charles Francis Adams with birthplaces and death years, Jay Gould, John Calvin, Peter Stuyvesant, and Peter the Great. Also lists historical anniversaries and a health ad segment about piles fissure and fistula treatment.
Engineer born in LaFayette Indiana at age 59 and Shepherd T. Franz prominent psychologist at the University of California Los Angeles born in Jersey City New Jersey at age 55 are named as notable figures with their birthplaces and ages.
Today's horoscope notes a more sensitive disposition and a retiring mood that might be misunderstood. It cites sound judgment, potential learning, and a need for patience as key themes guiding the day.
A fragment notes that manners prevail but feelings appear dispassionate. It says Sierra generally follows this day and that friends are not plentiful.
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