Plant of Ohio Cut Stone Co. Razed
A fire destroyed Plant number one of the Ohio Cut Stone company in South Amherst. Loss estimated at about 150000 with insurance. No salvage possible. about 25 workers out of work. Sparks endangered nearby homes but none burned. Fire under control by 10 p m after hydrant pressure problems hindered efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Amherst
Ohio Cut Stone Company
Ohio Stone Company
Amherst
Buckeye Street
C. R. Yansen
Cleveland
Ohio Cut Stolls Company
Southa
Buffalo
Objections At Public Hearing On Zoning Ordinance
Grievances were voiced at a public hearing on a zoning ordinance in Corinto Nicaragua. Residents from Middle Avenue South urged keeping frontage open for commercial use while council referred issues to the Building and Lands committee and planning commission for review before final passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Middle Avenue
Eighth Street
C.M. Williams
Will Durman
Mary K. Eshman
Sixteenth Street
Ht. T. Winkles
Building and Lands Committee
Planning Commission
G. O. Gloaser
Harry H. Packer Company
Outdoor Sign Board
Cleveland
Gloaser
Gerald Grime
Cincinnati
Cleveland Street
West River Street
Lodi Street
Sebold
Clark Street
Winckles Street
H. T. Winkles
Rolling Commission
Lorain druggist faces $10,000 graft over arsenic prescription
Evidence is heard in common pleas court under Judge W B Thompson in Lorain. Frances Paraska 16 accuses Rudolph Kubasak druggist of East 28th Street of making a prescription with an overdose of arsenic causing internal disorders. Paraska seeks 10000 damages and 50 for doctors fees. Kubasak denies. The trial may finish soon. Separately Henry Brodie sues Cleveland Electric Illuminating for 5000 over encroachment. case settled out of court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Pleas
W. B. Thompson
Lorain
Frances Paraska
Elyria Avenue
Rudolph Kubasak
Eas
28Th Street
Kubasak
Francca
Henry P. Brodie
Avon Lake Village
Cleveland Electric Wuminating Company
Thompson
Hrodle
111Minating Company
Monoplane Albatross Fails Endurance Record Try
In Fresno California on November 27 the monoplane Albatross landed at Helm about forty miles from Fresno after Lee Shoenhalr and John Gueguelmett failed to reach a new world's endurance record for sustained flight due to insufficient gasoline. They departed Fresno at 6 45 a m on Sunday.
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Fresno
Calif
Albatross
Lee Shoenhalr
John Gueguelmett
Two Hundred Apply to View Ohio Penitentiary Execution
Warden P E Thomas at Columbus reports more than two hundred applications from the public to witness the two executions scheduled for Friday night. The condemned are Charles Hoppe of Toledo, a child killer, and John Rucker of Cincinnati, who killed a policeman. Thomas said applications would be denied and a list of approved witnesses already exists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
P. E. Thomas
Charles Hoppe
Toledo
John Rucker
Cincinnati
Thomas
Chicago Schools Face Huge Deficit in 1927 Budget
Chicago faces a $12,000,000 operating deficit for the next three months as tax funds near exhaustion and next year’s levy delays. Teachers salaries, lighting and heating funds, and civil service payrolls are due with no funds in sight. Mayor Thompson’s anti British propaganda campaign is cited as a partial cause by Elmer Stevens, while H. Wallace Caldwell says efforts are ongoing to keep schools open, though up to half a million children could be affected by school closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Leas
Mayo
Thompson
Elmer T. Stevens
H. Wallace Caldwell
Mother of Brand Whitlock Near Death
Mrs. Marie Whitlock aged 84, mother of Brand Whitlock former ambassador to Belgium, was critically ill at her Urbana home after a heart attack. She has been in serious condition for a week. Mr and Mrs Whitlock, living in Cannes, France, have been notified and sailed Sunday for New York.
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Brand Whitlock
Urbana
Marie Whitlock
Belgium
Illness of King George Deepens in Buckingham Palace
Cape Town reports a message for the Prince of Wales to return to London. In London the seventh day of King George V illness is noted as a feverish cold worsening into pleurisy risk. Official bulletins say the king rests better but remains weak as about 800 people gather at palace gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
George
Buckingham Palace
Stanley Hewett
Daily Mail
Truck Crash Kills Toledo Youths at Railroad Crossing
In Toledo, Ohio, on November 27 two local youths, Joseph Katona aged 19 and Joseph Czick aged 17, died when an auto body truck carrying them to Cleveland collided with a Wheeling and Lake Erie locomotive at Woodville Street crossing. Katona was trapped in the cab and burned beyond recognition as flames engulfed the truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Toldo
Cleveland
Woodville Street
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Joseph Katona
Eli Katona
Joseph Czick
Martin Czick
Katona
Hills Provided For Coasting In Cascade Park
Frank Wilford chair of the Park board informs the city council that Cascade park will feature two coasting hills for winter sports with one straight run for tamer ride. He also joins the Ice skating ponds committee along with C. C. Stolzenburg and Dr. Agate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsha
Frank Wilford
Cascade Park
Attorney Wilford
Council
Board of Education
C. C. Stolzenburg
Agate
Oberlin Man Is Sued In Auto Accident
Myron H. Worcester of 99 Spring Street Oberlin is defendant in a common pleas suit filed by Fred J. Cameron of 117 Glenwood Street Elyria seeking 850 dollars for damages to a car after a crash on South Professor Street Oberlin October 20 Cameron blames Worcester. CHIL D SUFFOCATED. James Edward Munz aged one was found suffocated under bed clothing by his parents in Cincinnati. Fire department attempt to revive the child failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myron H. Worcester
Spring Street
Oberlin
Common Pleas Court
Fred. T. Cameron
Glenwood Street
Elytia
South Professor Street
Cameron
Worcester
Cincinnati
James Edward Munz
White Thanksgiving Forecast Closes In Midwest
Chicago dispatch reports a white Thanksgiving anticipated for large parts of the middlewest with rain and snow across the plains and central valleys to the lake region. Temperatures rise today in the central states then fall to below normal by Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Middlewest
Weather Bureau
Plains States
Central States
Eggs Kidnap South Akron Girl
Police launched a country wide search for two highwaymen who abducted and beat a South Akron girl after shooting her escort. Mary Striff 17? was released a short distance from the scene and her escort Russell K. Harris 33 was wounded in the left leg. The pair fled after dragging Striff from the car and stripping her finger of a diamond ring. Harris summoned help after reaching H. T. Gillen’s home.
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Akron
South Akron
Mary Striff
Russell K. Harris
Miss Striff
Harris
H. T. Gillen
Ezra Meeker Near Death Trail Blazer of Northwest
Seattle news reports Ezra Meeker the 97 year old pioneer known for ox team days lies unconscious after a decline in health. A Frye Hotel bulletin says he may not live twenty four hours as grandson C L Templeton confirms the critically weakening condition. Born December 29 1830 in Butler County Ohio Meeker migrated to Oregon in 1852 and later retraced his route in 1875 then again in 1919.
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Seattle
Wash
Ezra Meeker
Northwest
Frye Hotel
C. L. Templeton
Meeker
Ford
Detroit
Buller County
Ohio
Oregon
Unusual Penalty Issued By Ohio Judge for Youth
James Gueckner Jr., 25, faces a $54 fine unless he completes a court ordered task by Municipal Judge Pater. He must write 1060 times "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" and 1000 times the ninth verse, 20th chapter of Leviticus. Gueckner was arraigned on a charge of beating his father after a quarrel at their home. The judge warned him to submit the manuscripts with no carbon copies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
James Gueckner, Jr
Pater
Bueckner
T Seir
City of Elyria sued over sidewalk hole injury
Hazel Boynton files a $3,500 damage suit in common pleas court against the City of Elyria Ed alleging a July 4, 1927, fall on a Bond street sidewalk hole nine by eleven by three inches. She says the stubbed foot twisted her ankle requiring four weeks in a plaster cast and caused knee swelling and pain. Medical costs and permanent injuries are claimed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsria
Common Pleas Court
Hazel Boynton
Bond Street
Jefferson
Madison Streets
Global storm devastates Europe with crops and ships hit
London reports 129 known dead as gales flood and wreck railways, ships, and telegraph lines across Britain and Europe. Dutch and Belgian areas face dykes breaches and floods while Mediterranean boats suffer heavy losses. In England 24 deaths and 14 drownings, multiple ships missing or wrecked, and Antwerp endures its worst storm in thirty years. Fire follows as oil rig is destroyed in Licking County, Ohio, by a blaze at the Fhet Ridge Oil and Gas unit near Newark.
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London
British Isles
Europe
Uist
Great Britain
Switzerland
Villars
Scotland
Wales
Belgium
Calloo
Antwerp
Mechlin
Holland
England
Cesarre
Algeria
Mediterranean
Jn Wiesbadeh
Dutea
Cahu
Fhet Ridge Oil and Gas Company
Newark
Ed Armstrong
Licking County
Homer Clay Sentenced to Five Years for Auto Theft
Homer Clay of Ironton was sentenced to five years in the state penitentiary by Judge Scarlett for automobile theft in Columbus Ohio. The decision was handed down today as the judge imposed the term after a trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Clay
Ironton
State
Scarlett
Pledges total 97040 final Elyria Community Chest drive
Elyria's 1929 Community Chest surpassed its $90,900 goal with $6,140 more, bringing the grand total to $97,040 after a final dinner at the YMCA. Industrial, ladies, and men’s teams posted strong totals, with Steel and Tubes leading industry at $3,376 and individual team leaders Doroth y Snyder and Charles Persons guiding top performances. The countdown, cheers, and a torn thermometer marked the campaign’s end and Elyria’s pledge to support “The Least of These.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Vision
W. B. Timms
Columbia Steel Company
Chronicle-Telegram
Steel and Tubes, Inc
Frank Vincent
Vincent
Myron Jones
Dorothy Snyder
George T. Snyder
National Tube Company
Oc Ane
Thess
Charles Persons
King Fauver
Elyria Community Chest
Colson Company
Fauver
American Legion
Peter Reese
Community Chest Orchestra
American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Ely Park
Community Chest
America
Reese
F. A. Smythe
H. Redington
Roy Miller
B. Gillis
F. L. Woodruff
B. Hannaford
E. F. Allen
Miss Burner
Ror Miller
Worth Fauver
Jack Siekinnen
Walter Kohn
Henry Ingersoll, Jr
W. H. Patton
Harvey C. Cheney
Dr. G. K. Moyer
W. B. Richmond
Fred Roth
American Lace Company
Columbia Steel, Company
Couch-Uthe Company
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Ohio Cut Stane CO
Hoover
Corinto
Nicaragua
Herbert Hoover
Adolfo Diaz
City OF
Furnpean
Central
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