Mayor Appeals PNA I APA over Lorain brickmasons at Grafton dormitory
Lorain mayor James A Hewitt announced that Lorain brickmasons will get an equal share on the State reformatory farm dormitory project at Grafton township. He cited a direct memo from State Welfare Director Hale H Griswold and a night letter to end discrimination. The dormitory for 369 prisoners costs about fifty thousand dollars and is near North Eaton on the Avon Belden road.
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Lorain
State Reformatory Farm
Grafton Township
James A. Hewitt
State Welfare
Hale H. Griswold
Elyria
Griswold
Union
Charles L. Sherwood
Elsha
Reformatory
North Eaton
Avon Belden
Highest Paid Woman Dies in Pact in Wallingford
Anna Ayres a top earner last reported at a 100000 yearly salary is found dead in a Wallingford hotel with a married man Gavriord a 21 year old bookkeeper believed to have shot her before killing himself authorities suspect a death pact no notes found Ayres, once married to a former Amherst College professor, left three children and had recently written How to Be a Success in Business.
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Wallingford
Conn
Anna Ayres
New England
James J. Corrigan
William Gerlord
Ease Hartford
Ayres
Amherst College
Gavrlord
Ernest Arres
Amherst
Alexander Meiklejohn
Arres Fh
New Haven Corse
United States
Garlord
Lyons Career Spanned Newspapers and Radio Hobby
J. Lyons started as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Dispatch at 21 and worked for the Philadelphia Record and other papers in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Lorain before becoming editor of the Elyria Evening Telegram about 20 years ago. He later moved into insurance and has been in that business for about a decade. Lyons is married with two children and lives at 356 Seventh Street. His hobby is radio.
Railway Co Is Sued For 20000 In Cleveland Case
Suit for 29090 filed in common pleas court by Alen Ducker father of Eleanor Lucker a Lake Avenue School child who was killed January 11 1929 after being struck by a Cleveland Southwestern Railway and Light Company street car at the Lake Avenue School. Petition charges the car failed to slow as the girl appeared on the tracks.
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Cleveland Southwestern Railway and Light Company
Common Pleas Court
Alen Ducker
Eleanor Lucker
Lake Avenue
Cleveland Southwestern
Damage suit over arrest seeks 25000 in Lorain court
A jury in Lorain County Common Pleas will decide this afternoon if Peerless Oil owes Louis Cooper of Home Furniture 25000 for an August 25 1927 arrest on four counts of passing bad checks. Cooper alleges the arrest damaged his credit business and reputation while the defense contends his character was already poor. Evidence closed after witnesses including bank officials and a dentist testified to Cooper s lack of credibility.
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Common Pleas
W. B. Thompson
Peerless Oil Company
Louis Cooper
Home Furniture Company
Cooper
Grand
Peerless Qill Company
Les DeLford
Peerless Ou
Giles Ray
Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company
A. BD. Cameron
Lorain
Cleveland Trust Company
A. B. Taylor
Lorain County Savings and Trust Company
L J. Bernstein
Cleveland
Metro-Realty Corporation
George Wieland
Cooner
A. T. Glew
Cooners
S. D. Shaw
Western Reserve Finance Company
W. J. Bartett
Treasury pushes sites for two modern narcotic farms
Washington reports preliminary work to select locations for two 55 million dollar federal narcotic farms to ease prison crowding. One site in the Southeast and one in the Southwest with bids received for site purchase and construction. Public Health Service estimates about 153,000 addicts eligible.Congress to consider over 10 million for development. Most addicts east of Colorado and four of five are men in eastern cities.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
Treasury, Justice
War Department
Public Health Service
Congress
Special Narcotic Board
Mellon
Colorado
Three Month Probe Aims at War Department Savings
Washington Oct 16 The army general staff works to trim military costs under Hoover’s call for economy in military and naval budgets. A $500 million annual pure military spend is analyzed for obsolescence and longer funding, with Nov 1 a deadline for budget-ready recommendations. Possible reductions include shrinking regular army and reassigning roles to National Guard and air corps, plus reconsidering coastal and field artillery roles.
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Washington
Army General Staff
Hoover
War Department
Good
General Staff
National Guard
Citizens Military
Air Corps
Hoover Telegraph Farewell to MacDonald in U S Visit
President Hoover telegraphed a farewell to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald noting the warm reception of his visit as a symbol of friendship between the United States and Great Britain. The message came from Washington on October 16.
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Bulletex
Washington
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
Great Britain
Hoover
MacDonald
Land Purchase Permits Street Widening in City
The city will widen Fourth Street at East Avenue by purchasing a narrow land strip from the C. H. Iagner property. The ten foot widening reduces hazards at a busy intersection and secures space for a later bridge widening if traffic warrants. The left turn on green remains allowed as before.
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C. H. Iagner
Fourth Street
East Avenue
James A. Hewitt
Eastern Heights
Three Killed In Train Crash Near Nahor, Peterboro
Three railroad employees died and six were injured when two local freight trains collided near Nahor on the Peterboro branch of the Boston and Maine railroad. The cause of the wreck could not be immediately determined.
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TUE
Peterboro
N. N
Nahor
Boston and Maine
France and Italy cite own naval programs in five power talks
In Washington on October 16 observers warn that French and Italian insistence on their naval programs could block a five power naval agreement. Despite acceptance of London talks in January by Japan France and Italy officials see a serious obstacle from Franco Italian positions even as all five powers agreed to meet.
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France
Italy
Washington
London
Japan
Grand jury probes state Girls Industrial School cruelty
A county grand jury convened in a special session to investigate charges of cruelty immorality and drinking at the state Girls Industrial School. Prosecutor Winston Hill expects to hear about 100 participants and eight witnesses were subpoenaed. inquiry may last two weeks.
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Girls’ Industrial School
Delaware, D
State Penal and Correctional Institution
Winston Hill
Fmer
Credit Bureau Banquet Set for Tomorrow in Elyria
The Elyria Credit Rating Bureau hosts a dinner at Hotel Newell Thursday evening to elect a Board of Control and adopt regulations. A. C. Hudson of Akron joins as principal speaker, with a Kiwaais Quartette musical program. About 60 members expected to attend from 6:30 PM. Hudson, long in credit work, led Cleveland Retail Men's Credit Association departments before Akron. Local bureau recently chartered as an Ohio corporation.
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Board of Control
Elyria Credit Rating Bureau
Newell
A. C. Hudson
Akron Merchants’ Association
New Credit Bureau
William Struck
Kiwaais
Fire Destroys Barn On La Grange Road
Fire consumed a barn and its contents belonging to Edward Nubmi on La Grange road around 1 AM. Deputy sheriffs reported efforts to extinguish the blaze failed. Nubmi said he lost 30 tons of hay, eight tons of straw, a mower and horse rake, a wagon, a tractor, and about 500 dollars in tools. insurance covered some goods. Cause of the fire was undetermined.
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Edward Nubmi
la Grange Road
Nuhm
Arnolds win new trial affirmed by Ohio Supreme Court
The Wayne County Appeals Court ruling granting a new trial to Elias and Arthur Arnold for kidnapping 4 year old Melvin Horst of Orrville was affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court. The appellate court found error in admitting testimony from the playmate Turner Hanna, the prosecution's star witness.
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Columbus, O
Wayne County Appeals Court
Elias
Arthur Arnold
Melvin Horst
Orrville
State Supreme Court
Common Pleas Court
Arnolds
Melvin
Turner Hanna
Vermilion Crossing Elimination Heads to State Review
County commissioners said the plan to remove the double grade crossing of the Nickle Plate and Lake Shore railroads at Vermilion is now with the state highway department. They expect the highway director to favor elimination due to heavy Lake road traffic and rising deaths at the crossing. Also reported: Mrs. David Radcliff killed in Caldwell after auto strike. Mrs. Catherine Scheetz, 84, fatally injured in Baltic after a fall from a window.
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Nickle Plate
Lake Shore Electric
Vermilion-97- Lake
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Columbus Esterday
Lake Road
Baltic, O
Catherine Scheetz
New Bedford
Leimbach Sets New Potatoes Yield Record in Lorain County
Henry Leimbach of Brownheim Township broke his own record with 505.12 bushels per acre to qualify for the 400 Bushel Club for a second year. He used 25 bushels Michigan seed, 149 pounds fertilizer, planted rye then plowed under, sprayed 12 times, and cultivated twice. Nine inch rows and 30 inch spacing aided the harvest as others in Lorain County await final club qualifications.
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Henry Leimbach
Brownheim Township
Leimbach
Toledo State Hospital
Lorain County
E. B. Tussing
Ohio State University
Horton B. Alger
Michigan
Alger
Lembach
Ohio State University Agricultural Extension Service
Lorain
Woman Identifies Capone in Cicero 1926 Killings
Chicago reports state attorney’s office cites a 24 page statement from Mrs. Frank Biege alleging Al Capone killed McSwiggin and two companions in Cicero in 1926. The document, claimed to link Capone to the Valentine’s Day massacre and other murders, was obtained after a $25 payment amid threats on Biege’s life.
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Chicago
Scarface al’ Capone
Philadelphia
William H. McSwiggin
Cicero
McSwiggin
Frank Biege
Capone
Borgias
de Medicis
Ben Newark
Pat Roche
Swanson
Biege
Fined $500 For Transporting Liquor
Tony DePasquale pleaded guilty to transporting liquor and was fined 500 plus costs by Mayor James A. Hewitt after a two hour meditation on the charge. Frank Ross stays in custody on a 590 bond pending further investigation. In Western Heights police found four five gallon liquor cans in their car and one more given to a prospective customer. DePasquale had been previously arrested in Cleveland on a liquor charge and was out on bond.
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Cleveland Grouths
Tony DePasquale
James A. Hewitt
Frank Ross
Western Heights
Crehan
Brown
de Pasquale
Cleveland
Shell Oil to Take Over Peerless Company
Officials of the Shell Petroleum Corporation will be in Elyria tomorrow to complete preliminary transactions for transferring Peerless Oil to Shell. Shell offices are in Cleveland and St Louis. The takeover proposal has been under consideration by both boards for some time and a final agreement is tentatively reached. Peerless Oil has existed for about eight years.
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Shell Petroleum Corporation
Elyria
Peerless Oil Company
Shell Corporation
Cleveland
St. Louis
Hunt Father of Girl Who Died Suddenl
Two and a half year old girl died after suspected poisoning within a family. A ten month old child in the same household became seriously ill as police and sheriff’s deputies seek George Alfonso Glenn, 35, alleged estranged father, thought to be the poisoner. His wife Mrs Alza Barbara Glenn is in critical condition after a nervous breakdown.
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Sherif
George Alfonso Glenn
Alza Barbara Glenn
Elsina Memorial Hospital
Tre O
Ford Road Dump May Be Used for Elyrian Rubbish
Mayor James A. Hewitt said Elyrians may dump rubbish at the Ford road city dump amid rumors of a ban. Fire Chief Wallace N. Bates confirmed inquiries and noted a man is stationed there to manage conditions. a real estate complaint prompted council questions, but disposal remains allowed with a rule against dumping garbage in the area.
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Ford Road
James A. Hewitt
Wallace N. Bates
Bates
Lever
Vast Charitable Project Involving Coolidge Smith Rosenwald
New York reports say Calvin Coolidge Alfred E Smith and Julius Rosenwald met in Wall Street to plan disposal of Hubert’s estate, a sum estimated between 3 and 9 million dollars for public good. The talks aim to channel funds through a vast charitable project with formal announcement expected soon.
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United Press
NEW York
Calvin Coolidge
Alfred E. Smith
Julius Rosenwall
Wall Street
3Fr
Coolidge
Governor Smith
Conrad Hubert
Hubert
Northampton
Mass
Juliis Rosenwald
Thomas Potter Indicted In TanEDeal
City Clerk Fred W. Thomas and Councilman William E. Potter were indicted on charges of direct financial interest in a city playground contract. Bonds set at 3000 each, total 6000, with Thomas pleading not guilty before Judge Harrison W. Ewing. Also named were L. G. Schooley Sr. and Jr. in related prosecutions and Harmon G. Atwater in harboring charges.
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Cleveland
Fred W. Thomas
Thomas
Harrison W. Ewing
A. R. Thomas
William E. Potter
Potter
Liston G. Schooley
L. G. Schooler, Jr
Chaised Potter
Robert Bonowitz
Harmon G. Atwater
Chicago
Atwater
Bargains In Today's Want Ads
Bargains in today s want ads list items for sale including a furnace in good condition priced cash, a walnut radio cabinet with tube battery set and charger for 25 00, a Phoenix refrigerator at a reasonable price, various classifications 33 40 42 44, and a call to read many other bargains on the classified page.
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PU Luual Masons
State
Grafton
H. H. Griswold
Columbus
Ohio
Elsha Brick-Masoras
Grafton Farm
Andrew Hovan
Peter Ulrich
Army
Garner
John N. Garner
House
Teyl
Credit Bureau
Vermilion
Shell Corn
Peerless
Hunt
Tane-Deal
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