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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1920
Page
2
Mrs Frank A Lawrence hosted the birthday club at 603 Lodi Street for a refined luncheon with ten guests. The event showcased meticulous planning and will be followed by a gathering at Mrs John Smith's Stop 6 home on the Grafton line.
Local society notes list the Second Congregational ladies planning a masquerade afternoon next week at Erie street home of Mrs. E A Wells. Assistants Mrs John Liggett and Mrs A E Williams to help hostesses. attendance expected from members.
Rev. S Orosz of First Magyst Baptist Church of Cleveland spoke at Hassan Baptist Church last night about Austria and Hungary based on three and a half months of relief work. He described high prices, scarcity, and depopulated Budapest and Vienna, with travelers facing strict inspections and dire living costs. he noted potential migration if entry rules loosen.
The report notes severe wartime style price controls and rationing with milk and sugar priced per kilometer, claiming harsh penalties for protests. It describes seizures of farm products by Roumania, heavy lashings for dissent, tax burdens forcing people to surrender homes, and closed Protestant churches. Rev. Orosz appeals for aid to postwar sufferers, requesting food, money, and clothing.
A large Elyria audience welcomed William D. Kilpatrick of Detroit who spoke on Christian Science God's Law. He argued Jesus taught healing and regeneration through correct understanding of God, restoring the kingdom of heaven on earth for all people and urging that disciples could perform similar works today. He cited the Sermon on the Mount and the power to heal as central to the Christian science message.
Toledo police search for a woman bandit who last night held up a motor party near Toledo at Mominéetown and forced the car occupants to surrender $90. The bandit rode in an auto driven by a man. the attack followed tire puncture by a bullet.
In a discussion on Jesus commands from Mark chapter 16, the speaker asserts that Christian Science provides the present means to heal the sick through belief and spiritual practice. The text emphasizes that the signs promised by Jesus are now accessible to believers and the broader public.
In Olberlin October 14 friends learn Dr E B Haskell and his family arrived safely at their Samokey Bulgaria home. A Chicago based report that he was held by the Serbian government is false. Five day baggage delay caused by overloading luggage van and transfer in Agram. Dr Haskell sent family to Sofia while he waited in Belgrade.
The excerpt notes many annoyances tied to touring Europe today and remarks that a traveler can be a martyr, as Dr. Haskell says. It highlights frustration with travel while implying hardship in the journey.
NEW YORK Oct. 16 The world champion waffle eater title was claimed by Private Paul Francis Jones of the United States Marine Corps after he ate twenty six and a half waffles in thirty minutes in a contest with an Army representative at Grand Central Palace. An audience watched as Jones had rehearsed in the afternoon with a porterhouse steak with onions french fried potatoes asparagus doughnuts and coffee.
ObERLIN Oct 16 congressman Martin L. Davey Democratic incumbent for the house will address an open air campus meeting Saturday evening at eight o clock with several Democrats running for county offices.
Pat Sheehan aged 27 a worker and May McMasters aged 30 are linked to a Lorain incident. Details specify their ages and roles but the report gives limited specifics on events or outcomes.
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