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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1927
Page
5
In Joliet a blind bandmaster led a group of blind musicians and a deaf conductor led a band of deaf men. The veteran hobo band from Jacksonville State Hospital performed seventeen concerts praised by conference readers. During the evening their leader Freak Ray Hall, 55, wandered away and police searched for him amid the excitement.
In St. Joseph's church Springfield Missouri on October 15 Miss Golda Baumgardner wed Steven Slauf son of Mr and Mrs Peter Slauf. The bride wore white silk crepe with veil and orange blossom wreath and carried yellow tea roses.
Miss Louise Slau sister of the groom attended the bride in Springfield wearing white and blue satin with a lilac corsage. Ross Baumgardner brother of the bride served as best man. A wedding breakfast followed at the bride’s sister’s home. Oct lists at the groom’s parents.
A vintage advertisement promotes VINCO as a laxative and stomach regulator made from herbs and roots. It claims no harsh effects, refunds money if no relief after the first 25¢ box, and urges readers to choose VINCO to stop bloating and indigestion.
Mrs Swartz visited on Station road in Cleveland. Mr and Mrs Knowles called on Mr and Mrs George Sweet in Elyria last Wednesday. Mrs Wimpenney of Elyria visited Mrs Knowles on The Grange party hosted by Mrs Steinmetz Saturday. Precibal to entertain Oct 29. Several visits across Lakewood Berea Olmsted and Elyma. Emily Morgan ill with pneumonia. Card party at Lindner tea rooms hosted by Mrs Lofrinier with twenty place settings.
West Baden Ind a Rochester N Y manufacturer urged a drastic calendar change before the United States chamber of commerce proposing an international conference. He asked whether the calendar should fix weekday dates by adding an extra Sabbath or make quarters equal with alternating 30 day months and a 31 day month and whether 13 equal months of four weeks should be set with a new month between June and July and whether Easter should be fixed on the Sunday after the current April eighth.
Eastum argues for a new calendar with 18 28 day periods by December 1929. He cites widespread corporate adoption and says January 1 should fall on a Sunday for a simplified system. The first suitable New Year’s Sunday would be 1933, with no eligible year until 1939.
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin a father and son lost fingers of their left hands in two separate injuries within half an hour. Arnold Thil was repairing a machine when his left hand was caught in a chain severing the index finger. En route to a doctor his father tried to repair the machine and caught his hands, losing the first and second fingers.
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