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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
9
EVELAND Its Tommy suffered stomach ache from eating ice cream and many Americans share the same issue. A cane shaped city image with a base 800 feet high was revealed as part of today’s public figures and data.
Report notes at Public Hall about a huge cone divided among every U S resident yielding thirty dishes per person. Ohio ranks fourth in heatc consumption at about eight percent of national output with Pennsylvania first New York second and Illinois third. Vanilla leads flavors at 56 percent, chocolate 10 and strawberry 8. Drug stores supply 30 percent confectionery 27.8 and hotels restaurants 3.
William Bennet was bitten after a fish jumped into his motor boat at the river mouth. He collapsed and grew blue in the face as his friends tried to help. He recovered after hospital treatment for wounds found to be poisonous. the fish is kept for inspection.
England sees a rapid rise in greyhound racing with eight meetings in various towns attracting about 400000 attendees weekly. In ten weeks the entertainment and bets taxes from the sport have totaled $500000 for the public treasury.
Ohio State University extension issues a revised 24 page bulletin on milk noting its value for tissue repair and growth and urging milk as a protective food. The piece highlights diphtheria inoculation efforts in Auburn Youngstown and New York, with clubs urged to support public health aims by 1930.
Officials of the American Child Health association announced results of a 1923 experiment showing diphtheria has been stamped out in several communities and could be ended nationwide in the United States by 1930 as part of a health campaign in New York.
Conviction of a London man for the seventh time on a charge of cutting off a girl's shaft prompts eminent British psychologists to urge non prison measures. They declare the impulse behind this form of crime requires new treatment rather than punishment.
Poorer families in Chicago hail a new school lunch program started by the school board. For one cent a child may eat all they wish with a menu including soup jelly or peanut sandwich and milk. If still hungry the cook will refill the bowl free if no more money.
The menu for the nickel luncheon offers milk or cocoa, macaroni and cheese, apple sauce, chocolate pudding, and plenty of bread. Dishes change each day to provide variety for diners.
In Arkansas City 1907 Mrs Margeret Mac, once cursed by a Methodist minister that her legs be paralyzed, defied him and rose to lead the Welfare Board. She helped write and enforce ordinances governing all public dances and supervises enforcement.
The text notes cleaner, healthier meals and enjoyable food in municipal cooking courses, attracting both working and upper-class participants. It mentions many girls from wealthy families joining these programs alongside workers as a social trend in culinary education.
Stockholm reports a long running program of compulsory cooking home management sewing and baby care courses in public schools lasting over 20 years. Miss Gertrude Bergstrom notes rising home standards with married life ahead for crown prince and Princess Astrid who graduated with honors. The change is most visible in working class homes.
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