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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1924
Page
9
May 28 report from South Ridge covers prayer services at Frank McDonald home and Danbury area social visits. Residents from Amherst Elyria Oberlin and Cleveland visited neighbors and relatives, with church events, a hospital trip for Moses Eppley, and upcoming society meetings and officer elections.
May 28 Rev and Mrs Robert Andrews and child ren visit relatives in the area. Rev and Mrs Ryan spent Friday visiting friends in Cleveland. Rev Wise and family of Indiana vacationing with Mr and Mrs A J Hulse. R P Vaughn and wife and Mrs Fields of Elyria call on town. Joseph Pratt and family visit. Flora Knight visits Mrs George Lang. Elver Grills and family and Mrs Lucy Grills of Oberlin attend a sale at Lewis Mercantile Co third floor.
A crude scrapbook named Lockem Slivver seeks prizefight work by showing editors clippings about crime and street scuffles. Editors read the pages yet deny him fights until a kind editor uncovers the bias in the scrapbook’s stories.
Dr Henry Drury Hatfield once rode 20 miles in a storm to aid a mountaineer’s wife with pneumonia. When asked for payment the man offered a cow, but Hatfield ended up accepting cash after the man walked home with the cow and Hatfield realized the true value. A London party anecdote follows about a new rich wife admitting she discards dirty jewels, unlike the labor leader’s wife.
Local market list shows produce and nuts with weights and prices including cucumbers lettuce potatoes carrots mushrooms peas and a variety of nuts and fruit. Prices range from 25 to 35 per unit or per pound, with items such as head lettuce 1 lb green beans 1 lb and bananas by the 8 lb bundle.
The U S S Shenandoah, nicknamed the Leviathan of the air, is fit and ready following repairs to a battered nose. In its first post repair trial pilots reported satisfaction as engineers improved its design while the dirigible rested in Lakehurst New Jersey.
John Wilday becomes obsessed with a gem he steals, only to learn the Kohinoor is a worthless Woolworth novelty. The case reveals a cheap diamond scam and ends with a 30 day sentence and a $1000 fine. Irony and jewelry lore color the Canton tale.
Mrs. Thornton Lee Brown of Joplin Missouri has organized hundreds of women’s clubs in two years as national organizer of Democratic Women’s Clubs for the Democratic National Committee She adopted a plan modeled on church society and civic clubs with a focus on morality in government.
Experts say the U S coast guard cannot deter a serious invasion if the navy falters and that 15 of 25 harbor defenses are only cared for by detachments. Key posts such as Philadelphia Wilmington Charleston Savannah Key West Mobile and San Diego are undermaintained. Forts retain 12 inch guns while modern ships bear 16 inch guns, rendering defenses obsolete.
Viscount Takaaki Kato of the Kenseikai becomes a leading Japanese critic of the United States, a stance rooted in views since the Versailles peace conference. The article notes not to confuse him with the late Harriman delegate at the Washington arms talks, while mixed in are fragmented grocery ads and prices.
A Hungarian peasant sees a knocked-kneed newborn as a changeling and prays for its return. American union cigar makers won the eight hour day in 1886. Cotton has long been England’s staple. The sailfish is the fastest denizen of the sea. Try an ad in the Chronicle Telegram want columns.
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