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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1933
Page
8
City Editor J Clare George announces publication terms and rates. Notices include second class matter status Elyria postoffice, 1874 act, daily two cents, in city twelve cents weekly six dollars yearly prepaid. Mail rates outside Elyria to Leruin and adjoining counties three dollars per year, within Ohio four dollars foreign ads via John W. Cullen Company in Chicago New York Detroit offices.
The article notes a shift from Mesopotamian to African origins for humanity. Sir Arthur Woodward cites Kenyan fossil finds dating around 500,000 years, suggesting Africa as the cradle with land bridges enabling migrations to Europe and Asia. It discusses curiosity about origins and includes a Twain anecdote about Adam.
The U S Immigration office shows fewer than 8000 legal immigrants in the first eleven months of the fiscal year ending June 30. Visas issued include 3879 preference quota and 3361 non preference immigrants by May 31, with only a small share of the 153,831 annual quota utilized. The piece argues tighter regulations under President Hoover reduced arrivals, cites postwar comparisons, notes a drift toward preferring quality over quantity, and urges preservation of stricter laws despite economic pressures.
The article extols preserving vast wilderness regions as untouched by human society, arguing for limited railroads and settlements to maintain pristine landscapes. It notes federal and state actions reserving primeval forests, envisioning a future where primitive America thrives with new forests and untouched scenery.
Life multiplies and mankind glory in going back to nature. Hundreds of thousands hunt and fish, plan vacations in the woods. Multitudes seek holidays outdoors, and many men carry a latent desire to camp where nature runs wild. This is the American inheritance from frontiersmen and pathfinders. The impulse to follow their footsteps into the remaining frontier is hard to resist.
A religious editor discusses Mark five and demon possession, contrasting biblical sovereignty of Christ with modern secular trends. The piece questions governmental policy on vice, laments moral decline, and calls for repentance among the faithful to shield the next generation from ungodliness and covenants with death.
Todays anniversaries highlight Peter Cartwright the Methodist circuit rider born in Amherst County Virginia who died 1872 after a bid for Congress in 1846. Also Lydia Sigourney a Connecticut poetess born Norwich and died Hartford June 1865. Chester Harding Massachusetts portrait painter born Comwall died Boston 1868. James Gordon Bennett founder of the New York Herald born 1795.
A compact snapshot lists notable figures and moments including Zerah Colburn, born 1804, died 1872. Aaron Burr treason trial ending in acquittal in 1807. Pullman car debut in 1859. first electric streetcar in 1882. and Today’s birthdays featuring J Reuben Clark Jr, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rex Beach, Dr. Lawrence Redman, Dr. Arthur Crane, Rear Admiral Samuel McGowan, and Henri Bourassa with brief identifiers.
The second series of meetings on the wheat adjustment program will be held in Erie County over the next two weeks. Dates and venues include Berlin Town Hall, Groton Town Hall, Huron Town Hall, Vermilion Town Hall, Merry School in Oxford Township, Mars Saretta High School, Milan Town Hall, and September 12 at Florence M E Church home of Rev Henry Kute. Local residents Carl S Bittner, emergency agricultural assistant, announced the schedule.
Miss Hazel Berg of Cleveland vacationing with her parents here. Mr. and Mrs. John Franklin visited Arthur Boley’s in Elgin. Miss Lena Shockey of Bellaire and her sister Mrs. Fred Schramm called on Miss Emma Berg. Carl Burner broke his arm after a fall. Mervin Schubert family from East Amherst guests at Carl Berg’s. Fred Bergs visited Philip Lattiman in Henrietta. Henry Schmitz family visited John Younsless in Amherst. Lester Ketch stayed with relatives in Lorain. Mrs. Mary Pippert of Amherst visiting Will Lechmauch. Ed Lamslow and son Wesley at the state fair in Columbus. Mrs. Will Berg and son Clair leaving for Tonawanda New York to visit relatives.
Harrisburg report notes a new law requiring proof of identity for all hunters licenses in Pennsylvania. The measure aims to bar non residents and those barred from hunting from acquiring resident licenses.
Murray E. Stebbins of the Montana Woolgrowers Association estimates that at current market prices Montana wool growers will gross about 15.4 million dollars from the 1933 clip, roughly double the 7.75 million earned for 1932. The forecast reflects a bright year for the industry in Helena.
Brazil's great mineral wealth is comparatively little developed, leaving vast potential untapped. Analysts note infrastructure, policy, and investment gaps hinder mining expansion and export growth amid global demand for ores and metals.
A Carnegie Library stands in Suva Fifi, identified as a historic public library mentioned in local records. The note highlights its existence as a funded institution associated with Carnegie grants.
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