Fifty Thousand at Furhery County Fair Labor Day
Fifteen thousand people crossed the Black River at Third Street for the Lorain County Fair on Labor Day. Officials called it the largest and most successful fair yet with sold out grand stand tickets and a day packed with horse races, shows, acrobats, fireworks, and an immense display of livestock and farm machinery. Visitors arrived by thousands of autos parked to the east.
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Black River
Third Street
Lorain County
Graf Zeppelin Near Coast of Europe on Atlantic Crossing
The Graf Zeppelin passed Cape Finisterre and Camarinas while skirting the northwest corner of Spain at around 5 p m local time during its high speed Atlantic crossing from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. Officials expect a new record as the airship travels near eighty miles an hour with Captain Lehmann steering to avoid Atlantic storms. Ralph Heinzen of United Press filed word from the liner America about the battle with storms as the Graf nears Europe.
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Corunna
Spain
Atlantic
Bay of Biscay
France
Cape Finisterre
Camarinas
Amdrinas
Here
North Atlantic
Europe
Lakehurst
N. J
Friedrichshafen
Hamburg-American Line
Ralph Heinzen
Paris
United Press
Graf
America
Heinzen
United States
Lehman
Elyria Schools Open Amid Fire Damage Report
Lorain fires caused about 30000 dollars in damage as Elyria schools began the 1929 1930 term with four thousand students back in session. First day enrollment was not yet available, Allen School to open next Monday, high school handbook issued.
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Elyria
R. C. Maston
Allen
Éould
Ubrain
Maston
Health Department
Typhoon Sinks Steamer Mayon Off Camarines Sur
A hurricane of typhoon proportions swept the Philippine Islands sinking the steamer Mayon off Pasacao near Regay Gulf in Camarines Sur. Only nine of 37 crew were rescued as 28 remain missing amid torrential rains and widespread damage. Government offices and schools closed. electricity disrupted and newspapers idle amid storm warnings.
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Manila
P. I
Philippine Islands
Pasacao
Regay Gulf
Camarines Sur
Cebu
Tayabas
Luzon
Rizal
Philippines
Holiday traffic toll shocks Toledo as five die
Five people are dead and more than twenty injured in Toledo area holiday crashes. Victims include Edward Lynch and Mrs Leola Lynch, a newlywed couple killed when their car hit a pole. Others injured were Dorothy Luzny and Mr and Mrs James Brierly. Police say Lynch swerved to avoid a pedestrian.
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Toledo
Edward Lynch
Leola Lynch
Nicholas Watters
Melville Williams
Paul L. Cowell
Dorothy Luzny
James Brierly
Hopsital
Lynch
Buffalo
Life of a Local Lawyer: F M Stevens Career Arc
At 21, F M Stevens was a law student with Johnston and Leonard in Elyria, moving to Ohio State University law school in 1895 and graduating in 1897. He returned to practice, earned six dollars a week, then joined E J Johnson’s firm before opening his own office on January 1, 1899. He has practiced law continuously, served four years as city solicitor and seven years as county prosecutor. Stevens is married with two children and lives at 345 Fifth street. His boyhood dream was to become a lawyer.
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F. M. Stevens
Johnston and Leonard
Elyria
Ohio State University Law School
E. J. Johnson
Stevens
Fifth Street
More Than Half Of Fines Collected In County Court
Figures released by the clerk of courts show fines assessed from Sept 1 1928 to Sept 1 1929 totaled 21252 dollars while 12088 dollars have been collected. Officials say prisoners staying in jail in lieu of cash payments chiefly accounts for the shortfall.
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Common Pleas Court
Eckener Given Mightiest Ovation At Cleveland Air Show
The Graf Zeppelin commander Dr Hugo Eckener received the mightiest ovation in Cleveland since Lindbergh as 100000 spectators viewed the 1929 National Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition. The meet ends today with post events, while Army and Navy planes depart and exhibit displays are packed away at Public Hall. Eckener leaves for Akron in the Defender blimp and will meet Goodyear and German zeppelin plans.
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Cleveland
Smgliner
Hugo Eckener
Army
Navy
Public Hall
Chicago
Dr. Eckener
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Graf
Theodore Roosevelt
Eckener
Goodyear
Akron
Lindbergh
Air Service
Jimmy Doolittle
Aivard J. Williams
U. S. Navy
Germany
Charlies A
Lieut Williams
Doolittle
Freddie Lund
Caterpillar Club
Williams
Assessment records certified to county auditor
Clerk of the City Council War vey Cheney, aided by city hall stenographer Wilma Gardner, certified the special assessment records for improvements to the county auditor. The activity occupied this morning and concerns tar-pavers citywide.
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Warvey Cheney
Wilma Gardner
Cheney
Lorain Vice Raiders Arrest 21 in Holiday Sweep
Lorain police report 21 alleged violators arrested during a holiday crackdown led by the vice squad chief. Charges include intoxication possession delinquency operating a disorderly house visiting and residing in a disorderly house assault and battery and investigations. Two juveniles were among those detained, with police noting recent petty theft activity.
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Lorain
Stem
Serious injuries after crash on Eaa Ave and other weekend incidents
Six traffic accidents were logged over Labor Day weekend by local police. Merwin Lanaghan of Stop 7 Grafton was seriously hurt in a head on collision at Fourth street and East avenue when Kenneth Tucker’s car collided with J H Miller’s southbound vehicle. Tucker and his passenger mother and sister were uninjured. Other crashes involved Bryan Dague and W A McWilliams on Oberlin road, tire blowout causing a car to hit a parked vehicle on Middle avenue, N L Bailey near Court street striking a Green Line streetcar, Pauline Maites and J M Cunningham collisions at West River and Furnace streets, and C F Stoute stopped for a street car when Lester Cash rear ended his car injuring Mrs Stoute. All incidents caused varying damage with no fatalities.
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Labor Day
Merwin Lanaghan
Grafton
Fourth Street
East Avenue
Lanaghan
Kenneth Tucker
Tucker
J. H. Miller
Blaine Street
Bryan Dague
Roosevelt Street
Oberlin Road
W. A. McWilliams
Dague
McWilliams
Duet Hubbard
Center Street
Stanley Filacewski
Seventeenth Street
Lorain
Middle Avenue
Third
Fourth Streets
N. L. Bailey
North Ridgeville
Court Street
Cear
Green Line
Pauline Maites
West Tenth Street
J M. Cunningham
RF. D. 3
Eiviia
West River
Furnace Streets
Oberim Road
C. F. S‘oute
R. LD. 4
Wellington
Lester Cash
Garvin Avenue
Stoute
Stoute Wa
Two Killed In Cleveland Traffic
Two people died and eight were hospitalized after two holiday traffic crashes near Cleveland. An early wreck near an intersection killed 18 year old Edldie Mae David of East Sparta and seriously injured three companions Carl Howenstein 20 East Sparta Eisie Hickman 18 Bolivar and Roy Morris 19 Mineral City all to recover. A separate crash near Geneva injured five locals. The 163rd traffic fatality in Cleveland that year was 47 year old John Huetter.
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Cleveland
Edldie Maé David
East Sparta
Ohio
Miss David
Carl Howenstein
Eisie Hickman
Bolivar
Roy Morris
Mineral City
President Hoover Returns to White House After Weekend at Camp
President Hoover resumes duties in Washington after a weekend at the Blue Ridge camp. Mrs Hoover accompanies him. Allan Hoover remains at the camp with some guests during the trip back to the capital.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Blue Ridge Mountain
Stank Suffered Injuries After Truck End Sate Fell
Frank J. Stank, 42, of Buckeye Street, was hospitalized at Elyria Memorial Hospital Saturday with contusions to his right leg when the end gate of a truck fell and struck him.
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Frank J. Stank v
Buckeye Street
Elyria Mmorial Hospital
Ohio Conference of M
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened its annual session in Columbus. A memorial sermon by Dr. T. H. Campbell preceded Holy Communion. Two constitutional amendments from the 1928 General Conference seek lay membership and bishops elected by conferences in foreign fields, likely taking effect after the 1932 General Conference if ratified.
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Columbus
Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
T. H. Campbell
North Broadway
M. E. Church
General Conference
Ohio
Ridar
Oberlin Man Shot, Sheriff Detains Two Suspects
Allen Morrison of Oberlin is hospitalized with a shotgun wound after an 11 pm Monday attack. Sheriff Clarence Adams holds two colored men for investigation, one believed to be the shooter. Morrison’s injury is not considered life threatening. A lawsuit and alleged attention to a wife are cited as motives. charges expected this afternoon.
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Allen Morrison
Oberlin
Oberlin Hospital
Sherif
Clarence Adams
Morrison
Adams
Authorities Tighten Controls as Palestine Tensions Rise
Jerusalem Sept 3 British authorities in Palestine strengthen frontier policing and deploy aviators to monitor Arab groups along Transjordan and Syria borders. Rioting continues between Arabs and Jews in the north while the high commissioner Sir John Robert Chancellor's proclamation is spread to deter attacks and pause constitutional talks initiated from London.
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Jerusalem
Transjordiania
Syria
Palestine
Araab
Sir John Robert
England
Araly
New Minister Will Arse NOI Be Seated at St Pauls
Rev. Ernest Irion arrives to lead St Pauls Evangelical Church in Elyria in early November after 21 years in Ohio and Wisconsin parish work. Born in St Louis he studied at Walther College Elmhurst Eden Theological and was ordained in 1908. He has served Strasburg Akron Millersburg and Kewaskum and held Ohio Wisconsin conference posts.
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Elyria
Ohio
Wisconsin
St. Louis
St. Pauls
Strasburg
Akron
Millersburg
Kewaskuz
City Council To Meet Tonight at City Hall
City Council members will hold a regular meeting tonight at 7 30 p m in City Hall. They plan to consider routine items and may attempt to re pass the subdivision ordinance over the mayoral veto. The council has announced its intention to override the veto.
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City Counsy
Sclons
Fear Plane Feared Lost With Major Wood in Race
Storms in the Rocky Mountains are believed to have claimed the lives of Major John P. Wood and his mechanic Russel Ward during a non stop flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland in the National Air Race Derby for a $10,000 prize. Dispatches report no trace found as planes searched western skies 32 hours after takeoff from Los Angeles at 4 a.m. EST. Wood may have been forced down along the Grand Canyon plateau after his motor burned out.
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Cleveland
Rocky Mountains
John P. Wood
Russel Ward
Los Angeles
Wood
Henry J. Brown
Cleveland Air Mail
Brown
Cpack
Grand Canyon
Three Injured in Lorain County Auto Accidents
Three persons were injured in Lorain County auto accidents over the holiday week, with Sheriff Clarence E. Adams reporting. David Carlson of Cleveland suffered a badly broken right arm when his car, driven by William Reid of Cleveland, collided with Elson McConnell of Oberlin’s vehicle at East Lorain and East College streets. Calloon was taken to Allen Memorial Hospital in Oberlin. Mrs. Thomas Downey of Detroit was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a crash involving Archiel Stevenson of Elyria on Stop 8½ Oberlin road. Other accidents included a collision between R. K. Portmas of Amherst and Ben Kennefly on Telegraph road, and two-vehicle crashes involving Byron Dague and W. A. McWilliams on Oberlin road.
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Lorain County
Clarence E. Adams
David Carlson
Cleveland
William Reid
Elson McConnell
D. Oberlin
East Lorain
East College Streets
Overlin
Reid
Calloon
Telegraph Road
Byron Dague
W. A. McWilliams
Oberlin Road
Yeggs Hold Up Loan Company In Cleveland
Bulletins from Cleveland report Cosmopolitan Savings and Loan Co robbed by two gunmen who forced president C. W Ehrke to lie on the floor. The pair rifled the cashier’s cage and took about $600, with one bandit grabbing $506 from Mildred Feiten’s cage before fleeing in a car.
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Cleveland. O
Cosmopolitan Savings & Loan Co
C. W Ehrke
Mildred Feiten
Ashland Opens New Court House Amid Labor Day Crowd
Ashland unveils its second court house in three years with a formal opening on Labor Day before about 2000 attendees. The structure, completed at an estimated cost near 1908, marks a major civic project for the city.
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Ashland
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Erie Street
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Lorain Vice Raiders
Eaa Ave
Ohio Conference OF Meth
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Ernest Irion
St Paul’s Evangelical Church
City Council
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Tori
Major Wood
Yeggs Hold Up Loan Company
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