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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1923
Page
15
The World Tomorrow article by Jessie W. Hughan critiques school ethics after World War I. It notes obedience to rules dominates and minor offences like whispering and tardiness are overemphasized while theft and lack of patriotism are deemed truly disgraceful.
A speaker denounces wealthy individuals who fund liquor access and threaten constitutional order. He warns that danger comes from rich elites who wield power to dodge laws and undermine government, not from any single political faction. The piece frames corruption as class-based and warns of a social divide.
A compact roundup lists notable anniversaries and birthdays. Names include Turgenev, Bibb, Edward VII, Major General Funston, Verdun’s fall, Cregier, Lincoln Memorial dedication, America's Unknown Soldier, Sir William Horwood, Roy auxiliary archbishop, John Willison, Charles Donnelly, Lewis Burton, and James A Reed with dates and places tied to origin and age.
The item catalogs a birth anniversary for William Henry Porues, a note on Alabama politics, and mentions the West Virginia Public Times Association convention in Charleston. It also references the Commerce Commission hearing in New York, a transit electrification project, and World War era ceremonies. The piece closes with a nod to early college football in 1879 when Yale and Harvard fielded without scoring.
A string of humorous yet oddball Cleveland items features bets on Henry Ford politics as The Dearborn Independent option, a lady voter tale, a Kiwans Club contest winging toward Elyria, and Peter Witt elected to the city council. Also notes on a New York stenographers union and playful Mischiefs from East Avenue.
A fragmentary quote shows a speaker belittling women as the best things and mocking gender roles with cartoonish dialect about seating and control. The line reflects dated attitudes and gender stereotypes from an era of casual sexism.
The East Broad street branch of the Standard Shoe store was closed by creditors following two years of operation. The Amherst fire department answered a blaze threatening the village business district and the council received a 356 check in thanks.
A vintage ad touts a home made cough mixture cheaper than pharmacy remedies. It claims the formula soothes chest congestion and catarrh, with Parmint as the key ingredient, promising rapid relief and improved ear symptoms.
A conversation with Captain Keken discusses future transport shifts from ocean liners to dirigibles and airplanes. He predicts air travel will surpass ships in efficiency within a decade and that US leadership will grow, with aircraft forming the world’s largest industry within twenty-five years.
A medley of verse and biography notes highlights Thomas Parnell’s line about love and womanly perception, followed by a biographical sketch of Dr Lewis detailing his tenure as headmaster, education work in Europe, wartime service in Washington, and later roles with the U S chamber of commerce and Treasury. In Defiance, Josepa Toth pleads guilty in Mayor Marlatt’s court to keeping his children from school, with a five dollar fine suspended and costs of 36 690 ordered.
Dr William Mather Lewis assumes leadership of George Washington University the nation s only non sectarian co educational university in the capital With an enrollment over 5 000 he brings long service in education and the U S Chamber of Commerce to the presidency Born Howell Michigan March 24 1878 he studied at Lake Forest College Illinois and Illinois College later joining faculty at both institutions
London marriage report notes 91 year old North-Robe rt Brown and 85 year old Elizabeth Bolt tied the knot at Forest Gate. Both were frail and attended the ceremony in a restrained, halting service, marking a cautious union amid their advanced ages.
Willis B Booth travels to Paris to organize a conference of delegates from 38 nations to study reparations amid Secretary Hughes push. Booth, a New York financier and International Chamber of Commerce leader, began banking in 1903 at Optine then Guaranty Trust vice president since 1910. He holds numerous industrial interests and chairs multiple firms.
A man named Eugene M Pullen reports a successful nonoperative cure for a groin rupture after years of pain. He claims trusses failed but a method in an old raid of something cured him fully with no operation and lasting results. He offers full information by mail from Manasquan New Jersey.
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