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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1923
Page
9
County commissioners placed partitions blocking the sheriff’s office area near the courthouse door. The foyer and clerk’s office are affected as the public is removed from the old civil process route and grand jury waiting area.
Mrs Hatte Shaw, 27, wife of Wil tarf, died at General hospital after ingesting poison following a quarrel. Police say death appears self inflicted. Separate item reports a tip drive by the local American League branch to combat the Ku Klux Klan.
A heavy rain visited the city during the night and continued into the morning. Many workers were late or drenched, street cars and taxis were in high demand, and sewers clogged requiring city crews under Superintendent Cona bee to clear blockages and floodwaters from curb to curb.
Sept 20 reports list local residents with visits and trips. Mr and Mrs Geo Knitzle and family visited Mrs Katharine Kolbe. Wm Bechtel returned from a trip to Michigan and Canada. Alvin Kolbe bought a new Overland touring car. Ward Tolhurst was in Cleveland on business. B A Jenne and sons visited Lorain. RoA Rickerson and Alpha Rickerson visited Lorain. F H Richmond went to Oberlin on business.
In the 1923 scene Adele Garrison's narrator, Mrs Marks, and Dicky share a tense yet teasing exchange. The wife obeys a cryptic injunction, edits an incriminating scene, and masks truth while planning confession after a staged banquet. The mood blends sly humor with underlying doubt about credit and loyalty.
Miss Frances Richmond and a host of relatives and friends from Elyria Cleveland Lorain Amherst Bowling Green and Mansfield gathered with Mr and Mrs Byrd Richmond and others for dinners visits and weekend activities. Several drove to Lorain Elyria Amherst and Mansfield while new Oldsmobile trucks were reported purchased by George Eppley and students planned for Oxford.
Secretaries and other officials of automobile clubs from across the country gather in Cleveland for the opening of the automobile club convention under the National Motorists Association.
An old advertisement promotes Buddy Brooks toilet powder as a healing soothing antiseptic product for facial use. It claims cooling, non shiny talcum like texture suitable for women and children and invites readers to mail in their name and address for a trial size from Buddy Brooks Inc Marshall Michigan. The price listed is 50 cents per large can.
The East Ohio conference of the United Brethren church met in Canton and assigned Rev. M L Weekly to Lorain for the city church. A societal stat notes that one divorce is granted every four minutes in the United States.
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