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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1923
Page
8
In Minnesota on September 12, a gathering of business leaders from agriculture labor banking and transportation urged a program to reduce freight rates with targeted readjustments by commodity and region. Santa Fe and Wabash officials predicted strong future prosperity as farmers benefit from higher crop prices and improved rail carloadings.
Photographers capture the cabinet and official family on the White House lawn in a setting reminiscent of late months of the Hard administration, aiming to frame a formal public relations portrait.
E. J. Frost, vice president of William Fillen Sons Company of Boston, states that similar conditions persist data east as the region moves toward normalcy in the middle west.
Madame Marie Marguerite Fahmy testifies she did not intend to kill her husband Prince Ali in the Savor hotel suite. She says he threatened her life and that the pistol went off as he choked her while she tried to scare him.
Philadelphia report notes Little Bill Johnston of California, twice national titlist, advances to the semifinals in the national singles championship at Antown Cricket Club. He defeats Frank T. Anderson of New York in four sets 8-8 6-1 7-? as Anderson pushes to deuce in two sets.
Washington reports the government sold the entire 200 million dollars of 4 1 4 percent Treasury certificates of indebtedness. The oversubscription comes as the treasury notes increased cash available to meet civil needs this month and fund upcoming obligations.
Two bandits stole a box valued at $50,000 containing diamonds from a sixteen year old messenger boy in the Tray and Jewelry repair stores hall in Philadelphia. The youth, Guy Pradell, was knocked down and the box torn from his grasp as the thieves fled with ten wild aimas and no poisonous reptiles in evidence.
The article reports a dispute over appointments involving Governor and Commissioner Marshall. Marshall says no fight with the governor and defends Hopkins appointment blocked by the senate. The conflict traces to Donahey era auditor when Marshall opposed a salary increase and lost a state supreme court appeal.
An interstate commission today postponed the November 11 deadline and ordered railroads to withhold special privileges for railroad cars in distribution among coal mines. The ruling affects shipment permissions and related ownership claims amid earlier earthquake and weather cloud concerns.
John A. Stramsky of Pukwana South Dakota claims a new auto gadget cleans carbon, prevents spark plug trouble and overheating. He says cars may achieve 40 to 57 miles per gallon and that the device can be installed in five minutes. He seeks agents and samples at his own risk and invites letters.
A Metropolitan magazine note recounts two Vienna businessmen who met daily at the Schmitzelplatz cafe for twenty years, sharing lunches and a chess match after each meal, a routine paused only by time and fate.
A silent spectator proposes a game but the young man says he does not know it. A clergyman's wife fears for her son Bobby after mild abuse over socks at Bub- He school. A mother asks if boys teased him and he replies he wore stockings like his mother. The American Legion Weekly notes a melodrama town hall scene where a heroine's peril unfolds with a railroad track and buzz saw. The villain plans revenge as a gorilla confronts the heroine. The crowd shouts to chuck him but misses, while a stray note remarks that cougars are drawn to catnip and yellow is easy to see day and night.
Sept 13 Canton scene reports a Canton Daily News reporter summoned to witness a man's suicide by swallowing poison. W. C. Moore dictated a death message then attempted to shoot and swallow poison after the reporter left. Police arrived, Moore fought them, then swallowed hypodermic tablets. He was hospitalized but refused to speak. The story also notes a Columbus auction of Kilbourne Jacobs Manufacturing assets for $500,000 and a local joke about two workers buying a watch.
Readable lines show two characters named Rastus and Sam in a dialogic scene. The text includes a racial slur and informal speech about a watch, time, and awkward interaction. No clear event, setting, or outcome is established.
Columbus reports 5.5 million bushels of oats for Ohio this year, about 35 bushels per acre, with other crops yielding good to excellent prospects. Nationwide oats may rise by about 100 million bushels, while Ohio corn is forecast near a record 178 million. Potatoes decline slightly. timothy hay at 1 ton per acre. clover and pasture in good condition. soybeans high. Apples, peaches, pears expected 65 to 70 percent of normal.
Wealthy American Allister McCormick sets October Paris wedding with Mary Landon Maker’s jilted history still in newspapers. He now plans to wed Joan Stevens daughter of Hon Charles Melton Astley of London in Paris.
Judge C E Roop directs the jury to return a not guilty verdict for Walter Feltman the sixth defendant tried in the Millard Trouton abduction and murder case. Other five defendants previously convicted.
Cardinal Dubois of Paris objects strongly to sermons and religious services broadcast by radio. The issue is likely to be brought to Pope Pius X for consideration.
Bubonic plague reportedly breaks out at Melilla Spanish military base in Morocco. Several soldiers show illness amid regional tensions with Rift tribesmen as authorities investigate the outbreak and isolation measures are considered.
General Lossada named governor of Barcelona as police and civil guards accept the revolutionary regime. Martial law and strict censorship imposed. Former governor deposed amid rumors of foreign minister fleeing toward France and naval units reassigning to Barcelona. Provisional government prepares charges against premier and foreign minister. Court martial threats loom.
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