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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1926
Page
2
A forum defuses the eight meanings of highbrow showed in this month’s entry. The first definition portrays a cultured figure beyond a crude epithet while examples include a napkin user a jazz lover a marble buyer and a reader of Browning. An Aldous Huxley remark on tropical paintings sparks a mock debate.
The essay urges youth to seize opportunity while young, arguing against delaying ambition. Stevenson’s view supports exploring ideas, travel, and varied experiences such as attending revivals, reading metaphysics, and experiencing theatre, urging action over passive acceptance.
Two streetcar riding boys aged eleven and twelve fell off a moving car as a crowd urged lynching. An automobile rider warned the motorman and a brave officer kept the mob from attacking him. Investigation will decide fault amid mob violence reflections.
About 150 cities plan drives to gather 40 million dollars for community chests. Cleveland lists 24.6 million and claims donors from every family. Philadelphia follows with 3.2 million, Detroit and Los Angeles tie for third, a long list of cities begins drives next week. The piece notes 75 Americans earned a million dollars last year as the wealth leaders.
A compiled list notes Joseph Hopkinson born in Philadelphia and died there in 1812, John McIntosh born in Georgia in 1750 and later a Revolutionary general, and various 19th century events including Western Utah squatter government assembly, Charles Kemble’s death in London, and a 1876 Monmouth Junction train collision. The item also mentions births, the National Catholic Alumni Federation meet in Philadelphia, and a broad World Conference fundraising drive with many regional conference notes.
Centenarian notes mark the anniversary of George John McIntosh a Georgia commander in the Revolution. Western Reserve University Cleveland begins a 100th anniversary celebration. Toronto opens its Agricultural Winter Fair for a week. National Grange convention sessions held in Portland.
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Willam Ayres, a Democrat, is re elected to the Fifth Kansas Congressional District seat. He previously served in the 65th and 66th Congresses, spent two years out of politics, and returns amid Republican strength in the district. Born April 19, 1867 in Elizabethtown Illinois, educated at Wichita Kansas, and a lawyer by trade. He has long served as clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kansas and as prosecuting attorney for Sedgwick County. He resides in Wichita and is a member of the Christian church.
The article notes the forty year history record with a semi centennial celebration of the church organization. It mentions a well attended dance by the bivia Gun Cink serving venison and points to large attendance and visiting dignitaries including Grand Master Brean of Cleveland.
The fragment presents a war themed poem with archaisms and refrains about soldiers marching to battle and seeking peace. Imagery of iron regimens, Cromwellian vigor, and a quiet plea for end of conflict appears as a somber meditation on sacrifice and futility.
Transfers show Percie G Hills selling lots 28 and 147 on Cleveland Beach in Sheffield Lake for $10 each to James Lyle and Mary Mexitts. Other listed deeds include Zellab Scoville to Stowell Minkler, lot 33 in Avondaleade Elyria for $210, Erie County Banking Co to Leo Schafer, Vermilion River Park lot 18 for $10, Grand Realty Co to Max Werner, numerous lots in Lorain, and Daniels & Gritschad to Lorain for $10.
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