Lake Road Repairs Funded for Sheffield Lake Avon Lake
Four thousand dollars for Lake road repairs in Sheffield Lake and Avon Lake villages has been appropriated by county and village authorities. The Board of County Commissioners announced a $2,000 allocation for Lake road repairs, with the state providing a matching amount. The plan accelerates repair before the rerouted high road project from Lorain city limits to the Cuyahoga border. Sheffield Lake work starts this year due to village funding gaps. the broader aim is a direct Cleveland to Sandusky Lake Shore highway.
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Lake Road
Sheild
Avon Lake Villages
Lorain City
Cuyahoga County
Avon Lake
Sheffield Lake
Sheffield Village
Cascade Park Has Best Year Yet
Cascade Park posts record attendance this year with an average daily crowd near 100 and no bus accidents. Improvements include a 400 foot auto trail extension from Washing Avenue and a new spring east of the picnic grounds. City chemist reports the spring is free of harmful bacteria. Park Commission to meet next to plan next year work.
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Cascade Park
Frank Ilford
Elrria
Keith
Ford
Air Mail Flyer Saves Village From Fire
Cleveland, Sept 11. Wild Bill Hopson, flying from Cleveland airport toward New York at 1:35, spotted a blaze in Warrensville Heights. He diverted his plane toward the village, alerting a rear engine wake that awakened Joseph Kinck of the volunteer fire department, preventing destruction of 22 houses.
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Cleveland
Hopson
Air All Flyer
Warrensville
Cleve Ad
New York
Opson
Tis
Joseph Kinck
Riot Breaks Out At Texas Democratic Meeting
In Dallas at Fair Park auditorium this morning a factional split erupted after credentials were reported. Former Governor Colquitt urged Democrats outside as anti-Smith supporters waved placards like Jobs Not Gags and All Good Mothers Will Vote For Hoover amid shouting and fist fights. Police moved to separate rivals as anti-Smith supporters established a separate rump convention.
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Texas
Dem
Dallas
Tex
Fair Park Auditorium
State Executive Committee
O. Fi. Colquitt
Hoover
New York
Appelate Court to Hear 15 Docket Sept Term
Approximately fifteen cases are slated for the September term of the court of appeals on Tuesday September 15. Ten petitions in error one mandamus and one appeal by the plaintiff are listed with steps to place additional cases on the docket. Included is a petition in error by Stanley Dombroski of Lorain against O F Rankin former state prohibition inspector of Elyria. Dombroski lost a $10000 malicious prosecution suit. trial March 16 in common pleas court Judge A R Webber directed a jury verdict for Rankin. Elyria city appeals a $2000 verdict for Philo B Comstock who sued for $16009 after an icy sidewalk injury January 4. Continued on Page 2.
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Stanley Dombroski
Lorain
O. EF. Rankin
Elyria
Dombroski
Rankin
Common Pleas Court
A. R. Webber
Philo B. Comstock
11Th St
Hoover Finishes Newark Labor Speech and Campaign Plan
Washington dispatch reports Herbert Hoover wrapping up the Newark labor speech advance copy and noting a two day arishing trip down the Potomac to start tomorrow. He scans Maine election returns for November signals and plans a brief vacation before preparing the next address at Elizabeth, Tenn. Hoover says most campaign leaders have been briefed and assigned tasks.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Newark
Potomac River
Chesapeake Bay
Maine
Hoover
Elizabeth
Tena
Political Ball in Brief: Maine GOP Lead, National Projections
Tabulations from Maine elections show a Republican plurality about two to one with leaders predicting a national majority of 60,000 or more. Governor Smith plans a campaign tour with Mrs. Smith and his daughter Mrs. Emily Warner. Nebraska Senator Hitchcock dined at the State Man’s last night. Hoover may tour around Hoover foreseen Boston speech in October. Coolidge to speak. John J. Raskob cites Democratic ticket likely to win about eighty percent of Wisconsin votes for La Follette. Virginia Democrats urge support for Smith after Robinson spoke at the meeting.
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Maine
Smith
John J. Raskob
Wissin
LaFollette
Portland
William Tador Gardiner
Edward C. Moran, Jr
Frederick Hale
Herbert Holmes
Gertrude M. Pallangall
Biddegard
Wallace H. White
Albert Believeau
Androscoggin County
Believeau
Aday
Baxter
S .Atthan
Lorain County GOP to stage rallies before election
Lorain county Republicans plan a series of old fashioned poll gatherings before November 6. Attorney Frank A. Stetson and Jud N. Stone will confer in Columbus with the State committee and return to push county campaign events. Events include a late September barbecue at Pittsfield, potential appearances by M. Cooper and James T. Begz, with Oberlin rallies and a clean-up event near election day. Stetson predicts a solid Republican tilt with 23,000 to 25,000 voters at the polls and a record turnout anticipated.
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Lorain County
Frank A. Stetson
Stetson
Jud N. Stone
Oberlin
Columbus
Pittsfield
Cooper
Cincienati
Aittle
Lorain
James T. Begz
Sandusky
Bege
Cooner
Bui
Theodore Burton
United States Senate
College Town
Eiviia
Masonic Temple
Siitson
Waite House
Maine
Stets
Lorain Hit-Skip Driver Sought After Fatal Injury
Lorain police search for a hit-skip driver who seriously injured Joseph Yavocich, 32, of East 31st Street, with a fractured skull and internal injuries, believed to be dying after being thrown 60 feet. Joseph Marisnek of Cleveland was struck while aiding Yavocich and is hospitalized with hip contusions.
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Loraen
Lorain
Joseph Yavocich
East 31St Street
Yavocich
Joseph Marisnek
Cleveland
Yarocich
St.Joseph’s Hospital
Bountiful 1928 U S crop survey highlights mixed prospects
The agriculture department foresees a bountiful 1928 crop year with yields about 3 percent higher than the last decade, though map readings are spotty due to weather. Corn tops 2.31 billion bushels, wheat up about 28 million bushels, and potatoes forecast at a record 267.9 million bushels depending on digging prices. Tobacco prospects improve with a 1.372 billion pound yield. oats, barley, buckwheat and rice show gains. hay falls 18 million tons from last year.
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Washington
Cculture Department
Mississippi River
Lake States
South Dakota
Kansas
North Dakota
Montana
Pacific Coast
Nebraska
Middle Atlantic
United States
Elyria School Health Clinics Start Tomorrow
Dr Oscar E Townsend will head the part time medical clinic for Elyria public schools and Dr R S Wilson will run the dental clinic. Examinations by glow doctors begin tomorrow at the Roosevelt building to find defects and guide families to dentists or physicians. Parents are invited to attend and learn how the exams are conducted.
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Oscar E. Townsend
Elyria Public Schools
R. C. Maston
Maston
Townsend
Board of Education
R. S. Wilson
Public Schools
Glwo
Roosevelt Building
Elyria
Rotary Talks Highlight Honest Service At Club Meeting
Kellogie Day marked the Rotary Club noon gathering at Hotel Newell with birthday singing. A symposium on What Customers Do To Prevent Me From Rendering Service featured Harvey Cheney Ernest Crisp and J L C Hecock. Cheney spoke as an attorney classing three kinds of clients while Crisp discussed dry cleaning experiments and urged detailing stain types to cleaners.
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Kellogie
Rotary Club
Newell
Harvey Cheney
Ernest Crisp
JL. C. Hecock
Cheney
Murderer Detained in Lorain After Tip alert
Lorain police arrested Albert Watson one hour after a Kansas City tip indicated the alleged murderer was in Lorain. He was taken into custody in a home on Tenth street.
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Lorain
Kansas City
Albert Watson
Watson
Tenth Street
Barometric Maine Victory Boosts Hoover Curtain Tide
Washington reports Republican claim of a barometric Maine election victory signaling expectations of a large Hoover Curtis win in November. Portand dispatches show GOP leads in governor and Senate races with strong turnout and defections from Democrats, including women, aiding the landslide.
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Washington
Maine
Republican National Committee
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Curtis
Committees of Council Meet to Discuss City Projects
Three council committees met last night. The lighting and waterworks panel urged traffic lights at four intersections including West avenue with Lodi street and Furnace with Lodi streets. The fire and police panel backed extending fire limits near Lodi Street and Parkwier court and a city plumbing code was reviewed by the sewer and drains committee. A report on the code is expected at the next council meeting Monday night.
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Council
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Lodi Street
Furnace
Lodi Streets
West River
Lake Avenue
West Streets
Parkwier Court
Sewer and Dreiis Committee
Probe of alleged vote fraud in Cleveland begins
Limose secrecy guards investigators and witnesses as Attorney General Edward Turner launches a special grand jury inquiry. Turner plans to confer with Maurice Bernen former common pleas judge and Cleveland Bar Association president amid affidavits alleging polling place irregularities ballot tampering and late ballot arrivals. The probe promises sensational revelations according to reports.
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Cleveland
Limose
Edward ©. Turner
Turner
Maurice Bernen
Common Pleas
Cleveland Bar Association
Board of Elections
Berson
Smith to Crusade in West on Campaign Tour
Governor Smith plans a broad western and northwestern tour presenting a farm relief program and labor, water power, and prohibition stance to win back Lafollette voters. Nebraska signals favorable views as Hitchcock notes German and farmer support shifting toward Smith amid political realignments. Paris oil executive Frank French dies in New York after a relapse from surgery. wife Jeanette Gildersieve at his side.
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Albany
N.Y
Alfred E. Smith
Robert M. Lafollette
Wisconsin
Smith
John W. Davis
Lafollette
Cooholge
Davis
Coondas Weill
Boiter
Hitchcock
Democrat’c
Herbert Hoover
Paris Oil
New York
Frank French
Paris Onl
Fifth Avenue Hospital
Jeanette Gildersieve
Man shoots wife then confesses to police
Emery Horwath of 341 Colorado avenue killed his wife Elizabeth, 33, at their Lorain home as she stood at the ironing board. He then went to police, shouting he had killed his wife and later confessed. Prosecutor Freeman will charge him with first degree murder.
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Lorain
Emery Horwath
Colorado Avenue
Elzzabeth
Horwatia
George Jenney
Elmer Brackett
Freeman
Horwath
Hie National Tube Company
Mondare
Som Balist
Severe quake shocks recorded in Chicago
The Weather Bureau reported a strong earthquake shock recorded on the University of Chicago seismograph. The first phase occurred at 6 41 a m lasting 44 seconds, followed five minutes later by a second phase of equal duration. The shocks were about 75 miles from Chicago and continued at 7 a m.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Weather Bureau
Lorain Council Seeks State Grills Presents Protest
Lorain city solicitor Wesler L. Grills today presented the State Utilities Commission with a council resolution protesting proposed fare increases by the Lake Shore Electric Railway and Lorain Street Railway. The two firms seek a five year franchise at higher rates, with city and company officials failing to agree on prices and turning the dispute to arbitration.
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G. Septii
Wesler L. Grills
Lorain
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State Utilities Commission
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