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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1931
Page
4
A fragmentary description discusses a Black man serving as a presidential messenger and keeper of the timepieces in the White House. It sketches his years of service, travels abroad, and evolving duties from mounted messengers to modern staff. The voice reflects period attitudes and curiosity about race and official roles.
Leslie Fitch was brought home from Lakewood hospital Sunday after an illness and recent surgery. Mr and Mrs Arnold Burk and son Bobby along with Mr and Mrs Frank V Pickering spent New Year in Cleveland. Oma Barrett and Sherman Vedder, Gordon Paddock of Cleveland visited relatives. Y W A of the Baptist church will hold an all day meeting Wednesday at Mrs R A Host er s home. Mary Langthorpe of Elyria visited her sister Anna Gilbert. True Blue club of Baptist Sunday school to be entertained Saturday at George Jenkins home.
Cleveland notes steel operations at 30 percent capacity, up two points from the prior week. In San Francisco Pacific Telephone & Telegraph reports nine months to Sept 30 earnings of $0 per common share versus $0.06 per share for the same period in 1960. Dallas subsidiaries of Central and Southwest Utilities Co report September residential electric energy sales up 81 percent from September 1930.
Kennedy reports electric output in the Middle West Utilities system for the first nine months of 1931 rose 5.7 percent over the same period in 1930. Seaboard Public Services posts net earnings for the year ended September 3 up 6.9 percent from the prior year. Tulsa-Southwest notes rising grain and oil prices with forecasted one dollar crude oil and wheat. Boston shoes see third quarter production up 16 percent from 1930.
The governor's statement on Johnson's Congress representation policy shows the President admitting only loyal Republicans, aligning with the Union party line and expressing support for those who carried the country through the war.
The Elyria Sanitary Body, organized 64 years ago, appoints three commissioners under the ordinance to inspect districts east and west of Middle Avenue and north and south of Main Street. H. P. Beebe, R. M. Carter, and a third commissioner oversee zones and urge households to clean yards to prevent disease once frost ends.
Down Disguise Lewes Del This ancient town known for guiding merchant ships up the Delaware to Philadelphia moves ahead with plans for its 300th anniversary revealing a Dutch village appearance.
Demand for lower prices on necessaries pushes beer down from 25 cents per McGinity to two for 25 cents. A McGinity near the border is a schooner of remarkable size, reflecting the local market's bargaining spirit.
San Bernardino California prisoner Pop Morris, head chef at San Bernardino County jail, risks losing his share of a 90 acre ranch and $38,000 in cash as his citizenship status limits estate rights. Morris’s legal position centers on imprisonment affecting financial and property interests.
Riverside California Agricultural Commissioner A E Bottel forecast higher date prices in the sector after reports that recent rains damaged the date crop.
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