Elyria Poised For Metropolitan Growth After War Boom
Elyria shows rapid expansion with population rising from 24 253 in 1940 to 30 307 in 1950 and projected to 50 006 to 60 000 by 1975. Industrial employment grew from 39 stage to 12 060, with 87 factories and over 200 products. Housing permits climbed from 240 1931 1940 to 1 635 1941 1950, including record years 1947 and 1950. Majors like Eastern Heights Pasadena Allotment Cascade Colony and New Allotments Opened drive new housing while retail sales in 1948 outpaced 1939 by 3 1/2 times.
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Elyna
Ladislaus Legae and Associates
Gurde
Elyria
Uss
Eastern Heights
Pasadena
Cleveland Street
Gulf Road
Cascade Colony
West River Street
Bannon
Route 113
Eastgate
Broad Street
Garford Avenue
Poplar Street
Elyria Features Broad Industrial Expansion And Growth
Elyria sees rapid population and industry growth with planned additions and new plants. Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive Airbrake doubles capacity at about 2.5 million dollars. General Motors Brown-Lipe-Chapin adds 175 000 square feet costing 1.1 million. Western Automagic adds 180 000 square feet for 2.5 million. American Radiator and Standard Sanitary 1.1 million. Ohio Screw Products 100 000 plus. Troxel Manufacturing 0.5 million. R W Beckett builds 27 acres. American Brake Shoe expansion not planned. Non industrial growth includes a new Elyria Savings and Trust building 150 000, Chronicle Telegram building 400 000, Fisher Foods store 100 000.
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Elyria
Bendix-Westinghouse Automotive
Brown-Lipe-Chapin Division
General Motors Corporation
Western Automagic Machine Screw Company
Ant
American Radiator
Standard Sanitary Corporation
Ohio Screw Products
Troxel Manufacturing
R. W. Beckett Corporation
Cleveland Road
Bendix
Taylor Street
Cleveland Street
Ithe Elyria Savings and Trust
Chronicle-Telegram
Fisher Foods
Chronicle- Telegram
Public schools are worth all they cost as a civic duty
A historical message argues that free public schools cost much but are essential for liberty and prosperity. It urges visiting schools to understand them better than fault finding, and emphasizes universal education as the safeguard of free institutions. The piece claims various associations and officials did not author it, suggesting it came from local education leaders in 167.
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Board of Education
National Education Association
Ohio Education Association
United States
Clyde Hisseng
Ohio
Klyn@ Board of Education
Closing of Murray Ridge School Reopened After Protest
Weeks of student protest including a sit down strike pushed the Murray Ridge School in Flyrna Township to reopen. The township board voted August 7 to close after state funding delay, but by September 11, 1937, locals resumed classes two miles east of the lake.
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Board of Education
Murray Ridge
Flyrna Township
State Department
Heman
Biffile
Moses Eldred
Fale
Black River
Elyria Thrives on Sixteen Birthday Legacy of Early Settlement
Elyria, Lorain County’s seat, marks 16 years since incorporation as a village and growth from frontier stop to county hub. Early history notes Heman Fly and Justin Ely, tavern and inn operations, the first paper Lorain Gazette, a high school charter, and Elyria’s rise to city status in 1892 with a population around 30,000.
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Elyria
Ely Tad
Massachusetts
Ely
Baden Ashley
Win Bush
James Portor
Elyrie
Artemus Beebe
Scrinafield
Jlo
Celia Belfour
Heman Fly
Ohio
Cleveland
Tinweves
New England
Justin Ely
Springfield
Mass
Connecticut Western Reserve
Ringe 17
Black River
Ashley
of Elysians
Beneally
Elyrra
Nlliam H. Giles
Eaton Townfins
Justice of the Peace
Maren 17
West Roe
Giles
Mains Street
North Batonation
Church of Christ
Lorain Gazette
A . Park
F. Whitney
Lorain County
Kocrat
Elyvia
George H. Ely
Sharp
University of Michigan
Blackout Ends as Elyria Reopens White Way in 1936
A historic Elyria blackout lasting months ended on June 6 1936 when the Ohio Public Service Co. resolved the dispute between downtown property owners and cityholders over who would pay for keeping the White Way lit. A compromise split costs with downtown at per cent and other city properties at 40 per cent. The city battled shadowed streets starting January 2 1936, aiming to restore lighting before the G O B convention in Cleveland.
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Elyria
Cleveland
Ohio Public Service Co
Two Lorain County Men Serve as Ambassadors to France
Two former U S ambassadors from Lorain County, Myron T. Herrick and William Sharp, served as ambassadors to France. Herrick, born near Wellington, died in France at 75 after a storied career. Sharp, Elyria-born, built industry and politics before becoming ambassador, aiding McKinley era projects and Walker debt relief. Their ties to Lorain County and France spanned decades.
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United States
Herrick
France
Elyria
Wellington
William
Count of Graves Sherp
Mt. I Monte Cristo
I Gilead
Huntington
Central
South America
Mexico
Chile
Peru
Mark Hanna
Hanna
Harding
Gay l
Ship
Ohio
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
Sharp Strumental
Walker
Con
McKinley
Free World
Sharp
Wilson
Kerrick
Helhe
Taft
William Sharp
Lindbergh
Lorain
Jalsa
Local Bank 50th Anniversary Ad Gains National Notice
The Elyria Savings & Trust Co. celebrates fifty years with a national ad reproduced in The Chronicle Telegram. Chase National Bank of New York cites the Elyria bank’s opening on April 9, 1901, noting the local institution’s long service and the unexpected use of its anniversary ad in major industry magazines.
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Elyria Savings & Trust Co
Chronicle-Telegram
Thel
Chase National Bank of New York
Chronicle-Tele
Chase National Bank
Elyria
cover+ Savings & Banking Co
Chase Nationals Bank
American Banker
Dent R. J
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Metropolitan Center
Eastgate Allotment
Popular Homes
Janene
William H. Giles
Brighton
St. Louis Republican
Kansas
Oberlin College
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
J. F. and
G. E. Herrick
Cleveland Hardware Company
Clevelandity Council
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