New York Musings and Urban Vignettes 1932
A long, lively collage of New York culture and society notes from May 1932. The column wanders through Broadway crowds, fashion, nightlife, and celebrity names like Cyril Hume and Tony Wons, interwoven with fond recollections of Willis Sweatman and Isabella era impresarios, ending with local Elyria notices and social briefs. References to cab stands, flappers, and street scenes frame a broader literary travelogue of city life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ozark
Ann Pennington
Arthur Klein
Cyril Hume
Eddlih Foamne
Hol Wynn
Jack Pulaski
Havre
Peggy Joyce
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Buffalo
N. Y
George McManus
Spat
Tony Biddle
Kathleen
Richard Dix
Marion Sills
Fappers
Robert Milton
Broadway Tabernacle
Cunard
Lenny Bergman
Walter Dean Goldbeck
Dan Sayre Grogbeck
Tony Wons
Exhibition of Special Work at Elyria High School Friday
Elyria High School hosts an exhibition of special work Friday evening with displays in sewing machine shop wood and metal work mechanical drawing and related crafts. Local residents attend church events and social gatherings including the Nettie Fenech Webber club meeting at the Church of Christ and visits by area families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALPHA
Alpha Class
The
Baptist Church
Elyria
la Grange Road
Carlisle
Elyria High School
N. F. W. Club
Deane Burns
Richard King
Phillip Robson
East Avenue
Thea Nettie Fenech Webber
Church of Christ
Celebrates Eightieth Birthday of C H Pitkins of La Porte
Friends of C H Pitkins of La Porte celebrate his eighty years. The article notes he is “eighty years young” and shares well wishes from his circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Pitkins
la Porte
Mr. Pit
Kin Active in La Porte Methodist Choir and Local Affairs
Kin takes an active interest in the La Porte Methodist church choir and several local groups. A birthday dinner was held at J. W. Pitkin’s in Norwalk with guests from Wellington and Elyria. Paraside Rejoined: homecomings and social visits across Lorain, Grafton, and surrounding towns marked a busy weekend with church events, graduations, and community gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kin
Methodist Church
LaPorte
J. W. Pitkin
Norwalk
H. 8. White
Nou John
Wellington
Pitkin
la Porte
Birmingham Church Notes and Local Events
Attendance at morning services reached thirty eight at the Birmingham church. Rev. George T. Hanna preached on Practical Religion from Psalm 96. Sunday school followed. superintendent changes noted as Martin Bergin moves to Milan. Women’s Temperance Union to meet bi monthly Wednesday. Florence game: Birmingham 6 Florence 7 after eleven innings. Local notices include various visits, shoppers, and business trips among residents of Birmingham and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
George T. Hanna
Hanna
Martin Bergin
Milan
C. W. Lawrence
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Firemen
Florence
Birmingham School
Local Happenings and 4-H Club News in Columbia
May 26 report from Columbia lists visits by Hunter family and Squire families, student graduations at Olmsted Falls, illness notes including mumps and near pneumonia, and 4-H Club elected leaders Arthur Crocker Jr and officers with 12 members. Also mentions new farm purchase near Copopa and Decoration Day plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
C. H. Hunter
Geneva
Migs Nell Kabeli
W. R. Squrre
Earl Squire
Berea
C. H. Blei
Lakewood
W. R. Squire
Bleil
Bares Iays
Gertrude
Homer
Royalton High School
Thelma Akins
Fikes Bagley
Beres
Dorathy Lechner visits kin and local gatherings
Grafton May 26 Dorathy Lechner of Cleveland spent Sunday to Tuesday with her grandparents Mr and Mrs E W Reichard and joined neighbors for visits in Brownhelm Elyria and Belden. Attys Lilley Brown and Miss O Neal hosted guests in Amherst and Lakewood. The column lists numerous Sunday dinners, euchre prizes, and social calls across Grafton and nearby towns including Belden Cleve ward Lakewood Elyria and Penfield with many family connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Tulk
East Avenue
Elyria
James West
Wellington
N. W. Rowland
le Grange Road
Arthur Bailey
Gon Charlies
C. D. Webster
Mr. Webster
Traverse City
Michigan
Ralph Hopkins
Columbia
Charles B. Hopkins
Butternut Ridge Road
Grant Lincoln
Cleveland
F. Q. Gott
Paul Bungart
Floral Acres
Grafton Road
Ir Jennie Nead
Normia
Ida Bingham
Misa Marion Phelps
Washington, D. C
Arthur B. Phelps
Indian Hollow Road
Henry Louisberry
la Grange Road
Dewey Reynolds
George Hale
Phil Omahan
Glen Arnold
Lorain
George Smith
Belden Art
Leonard Loudenburg
Glen Martin
la Grange
Ann Shattuck
Elmer Starkey
la Porte
Carlisle
Carlisle Township
East Carlisle
Cascade Park
Carlisle Center
Campbell's Grove
June Harrison
Kent State
Carrol Shepherd
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Shepherd
Guy Durkee
Grafton
Sam Dewhurst
Chestnut Ridge
H. L. Morgan
Max
LaPorte
Carl Diedrick
The
Butternat, Ridge Road
Mary Ladrack
M. E. Church
Henrietta High School
Russell Kubach
Louis Bingeau
Mena
Chester Hartel
Harold Heywood
O. A
Jesse Portman
Henrietta School
Kenneth House
Harley Davidson
Doris Prince
Grand Forest Park
Katherine Early
Amelia Parker
Ed Dalton
Oberlin
Katherine Helm
Elgrit
Chas. Schultz
Amherst
Lucy Wagner
Elmer Wagner
Eva Gantia
Vermilion
James J. McHale
Hagen
Coletta Stellar
Wm. Brill
Brownhelm
Myron
Paul Knott
C. W. Reid
Norwalk
John Robinson
Wm. Gurtiss
Harold Lee
Milan
Katherine Heimsath
Rose Heimsath
Rex Lees
Henrietta Hill
Harvey Heyman
Mildred
Lucille Snellenberger
A. J. Clemons
W. H. Truscott
Deiniven Lewis
Charles Garlock
Myra Edger
Mayme Church
Ed Moulder
Saturay
Dorothy Lechner
Apent
E. W. Reichard
Lakewood
Fred Ferguson
Clarence Gray
Beldin
Cecil Johnson
Bothgary Motors
Farm Club
Belden
Earl Durkes
Gilbert Behner
Berea
Merle Lehman
Tabor
Euchre
John Clark
A. L. Haury
Elmer Stall
Ed Brenner
Harvey Durkee
Wayne
Theron
C. D. Lehman
Pete Kolinski
Frank Hudson
Lehman Home
Geo. Burrer
Ellen Rice
Earl Rice
Henry Pfaiffer
Lit
L. D. Mennell
M. E. Graham
Will Ackerman
Chatham
Emma Scull
Eleanor
Mousseau
Carl Seckt
Lloyd
Walter Krebs
Wm. Schultz
Dorothy
Geo. Hecock
Blythe
C. H. Schultz
Wm. Wick
Gertrude
Ruth
Arlene
Herbert Wick
Gloria
Schults
Merle Denham
Truman Denham
Peafield
C. Draga
Merte
LaGrange
Memorial Hospital
Harold Bruce
Leonard Smith
Hlyria
J. B. Lilley
M. D. Johnson
Alta Johnson
Penfield
Virginia McFarland
Lodi
Jeanne Park
F. L. Chamberlain
Bay Village
Forever
W. P. Chamberlain
H. EB. Belden
Velma Lyner
Gee, Miller
William Buckingham
Buckingham
Olive Park
J. D. Mennell
Mrs. All. Wise
Ralph Miller
Penfield Junction
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George Bungle
Ommotion
Notail
George
NATO
Ming
Rae
49Th Street
6Th Avenue
Willis P. Sweatman
the Lambs
Willis
Willie
New Haven
Neuritis
Sth Avenue
Chinatown
West 41St Street
Cuba
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
William Chalkley
Billy
Thomas Pentland
Jean
Jeanette
Jack Abram
Oberlim Inn
Glen Mertin
William Pfieffer
B. J. Squire
Esther Squire
Harriet King
East Ayvenue
Williams Robertson
I. N. Haven
A. J. Carpenter
North Eaton
D. A. Burr
Walter Nevins
First Methodist Church
Arthur Eppley
Elgin
Albert Krebs
Mr. Diedrick
L. A
Forney
Richard Forney
Paradise Regained
Paradise
Marion Phelps
Donne Dickason
Lee Holcomb
Larain
Har Lea
George Goodyear
Miss Edna Goodyear
Just US
Just Us Hight
Ruth Blauvelt
Howard Goodyear
Alma Helen
Norman Erman
Edwin Schoenherr
Charles McDanials
William Farr
Oberlin Road
Hart Armbuster
M. W. Rowland
H. H. Gregg
Fred Porter
M. H
Wilmore Burnett
Meding
Misa Virginia Klaas
Vinta Grade
Baptist Mission Circle
Martha Alame
Evadna Longbon
Cora Mills
Jennie Cole
Harry Stinchcomb
Columbia High School
Russel Fish
William Madak
Robert van Arsdale
Paul Harrington
Walter Kobalke
Harold Harrington
Howard Gest
Russell Fish
Columbus
Acino Grange
Harold Halderman
Earl L. Lea
Anton Kowalski
Alfred Grills
Halderman
Ernest Rule
William Hathaway
A. Niading
Lois Nieding
Morgan
Léonard Prindle
J. J. Prindle
Ralph King
Oliver
Mry. Howell
Farmers’ Institute
Napoleon, Oho
Benj, Harris
Ridgeville
Ima Walker
Dorothy Walker
Agenea D’lioyrd
A. Taft
American Legion
Elytia
Epworth League
M. E
Methodist Parsonage
R. A
Bert Rothel
Freddie
Paeumonia
Fred Rothel
Geraldine Lee
Barnhill
New Philadelphia
Clarence van Arsdale
Calvin
Cuyahoga Falls
J. R. van Arsdale
J. R. VanAradala
Fannie Burton
Sam Horn
Wilmer Hilligoss
Roy Putt
Rey
Rudyard Kip- Mag
Lea
King
Caress Traina
Dorothy Latteman
George Dennison
Henrietta School House
Edwin Prince
John Bauman
Helmsath
Lucilla Ptarr
August Kubach
Evelyn
Paul
Earl
Will Johannsen
Olena
Albert Schneider
South Amherst
Ada Wood
Chas. Grenzebach
Theda
Wakeman
Sandusky
Frank Gerber
Monay
Lewis Franks
Joan J. Ladrack
Charles Garlack
Marf Ladrack
Sam Meredith
Lisbon
Ohio
John Echko
Andrew Echko
J. J. Ladrack
Hartman Halzhauer
Barbara Hilberg
Harry G. Ennes
K. E. Avery
Birmingham Town Hall
Helen Baxter
John Bechko
John J. Ladrack
Cleo Leinwebber
Lynn Bartter
Hoom-for-More
Japan
Australi
16Th & Middle
Broad St
Grass Seed
Wurzburg
Glo
General Electric
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