Elyria Schools Lead Fire Prevention Week Efforts
Elyria and Carlisle Township schools played major roles in Fire Prevention Week. The Chamber of Commerce report shows 4 221 home inspection forms issued to students with 68 percent returned, and extensive student activities including posters jingles and plays while drills were held in most schools.
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Elyria
Chamber of Commerce
Garford
McKinley
Holy Cross
Carlisle Township
Ely
Unusual Mishaps Take Toll in Ohio
A spate of weekend accidents across Ohio left at least ten dead. Drownings, a carbon monoxide death, and crashes included William Mann, 21, who drowned in the Ohio River after a canoe capsized. George E. Ireland, 48, found dead from carbon monoxide in his garage. and multiple fatal auto and train incidents involving Arcadia, Findlay, Gallipolis, Brilliant, Wellsville, and Cincinnati yards.
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United Press
Ohio
United Press Today
William Mann
Chauncey Mann
Marietta
Ohio River
Mann
George E. Ireland
Toledo
Dayton
Michael L. Parish
Arcadia
Findlay
John R. Gee
South Zanesville
Fred
Carmel Goodman
Gallipolis
Isaac Lapp
Farmer
Hartville- Uniontown
Harry Workman
Brilliant
Wellsville
William MacKenzie
Oak Street
Ira Tilford
Southern Railroad
Cincinnati
Two World Capitals Proposed for Peace City Plan
An American, R A Mathew, envisions an international city with two capitals Winter in North Africa and Summer on a Thousand Islands site at the St Lawrence River The District of Justice would be international in scope with land and buildings donated by nations A grand 300 foot boulevard and a mile long central thoroughfare would connect oceans to a marble circular court The plan frames a League of Nations style peace system that could curb armaments and boost trade
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Paris
Ma‘ichuria
R. A. Mathew
North Africa
St. Lawrence River
District of Justice
Canada
International City
League of Nations
Mediterranean
St. Lawrence
League
Bromley Lawsuit Involving Stepson and Son-in-Law
A Bromley court sees a dispute between a stepfather and his stepson and son-in-law. Gillis represents the defendant in the civil action as proceedings unfold.
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Bromley
England
Gillis
Complex Family Ties Surface in Court Case
The judge heard a case involving a widower plaintiff who married the defendant's mother, making her a widow. The widow then had her son marry the widower's daughter, creating a tangled family connection drawn in court.
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James
Music Examinations Planned for Lorain County Schools
Plans for music examinations to be given soon in Lorain County schools will be discussed at a meeting of county school music teachers led by supervisor Gerald M. Frank. The meeting in the Elyria Savings and Trust Company directors' room will issue full directions for the exams to be taken in third through sixth grades and some seventh and eighth grade classes.
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Lorain County
Gerald M. Frank
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
Fog-Proof Signals On Electrified Barking Upminster Line
New English railway between Barking and Upminster uses searchlight signals with 1000 yard beam. System stops a train at danger points and orders it back to safety immediately, ensuring fool-proof signaling.
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Barking
Upminster
England
Tablet Honours Hawthorne in Rock Park Rockferry
A tablet was placed at the house in Rock Park Rockferry Birkenhead England to honour Nathaniel Hawthorne the New England writer who lived there as American Consul in Liverpool. The inscription states Hawthorne resided there from 1854 to 1858.
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Hawthorne
Rock Park
Rockferry
Birkenhead
England
Nathaniel Hawthorne
New England
Liverpool
Abandon Hope For Recovery Of Hunters In Blizzard
Snow blanketed the Big Horn mountains ending hopes for recovery of two hunters missing since a blizzard two weeks ago. Veteran searchers pressed on for Fred Demmel and Dell Yoakum while Dillon McKinnon, found buried under six inches of snow, had been slain by the same storm. Five inches of snow fell across the range with Wyoming Montana seeing colder temps and Leadville reporting snow above 10 000 feet.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Big Horn Mountains
Fred Demmel
Dell Yoakum
Dillon McKinnon
Trapper River
Big Horns
Wyoming
Montana
Colorado
Leadville
Rockies
Inventor George Ireland Dies by Carbon Monoxide Gas
George E. Ireland, mechanical engineer and inventor, was found dead in his Toledo garage, apparently suffocated by carbon monoxide while working on his car. His wife Edith Ireland had just returned from Dayton with her brother-in-law and learned of the tragedy. Ireland had been earning about $40,000 yearly in royalties on automobile tools he designed.
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Toledo
George E. Ireland
Frank G. Kreft
Edith M. Ireland
Dayton
James D. Graham
Graham
Ireland
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Musebeck
Ingale
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Becka
Vestal
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Indianapolis
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Butler University
Hoover
Watson
Ator James E. Watson
Hoos
Roosevelt
Garner
Central Press
World Capitol
Pocahontas
Murbach Coal CO
Mount Vernon
Washington
Mount Vernon, C
The
Treasury Today
Peerless Construction Company
Gary
Ind
Republican Rally
Gates Room
1St Congregational Church
John W. Bricker
Elyria Republican Booster Club
Wiltshire
Wieners
Hughes Brand
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