Coeducation Centennial Exhibit At Elyria Library
The Elyria Library joins Oberlin Colleges centennial celebration with a special exhibit of photographs from the Center Committees at Oberlin. Display hours are 9 a m to 8 30 p m daily. The exhibit covers the development of coeducation at Oberlin College beginning 100 years ago when four women enrolled with 30 men for an AB degree. Caroline Mary Rudd of Huntington Conn is shown, her photo the only one surviving. A reproduced diploma of Miss Rudd is included. The Memorial to Coeducation sketch by Chester Price is featured, and Lucy Stone, a noted pioneer in women’s rights, appears in a photograph. The exhibit is organized by Oberlin’s Centennial Committee and History Department and will become part of Elyria Library’s permanent records.
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Elyria
Oberlin College
Centerwil
Oberlin
Lirary
Edna Moore
Caroline Mary Rudd
Huntington
Conn
Rudd
Chester Price
Lucy Stone
Department of History
Elyria Library
Moore
North Olmsted Man 87 Returns From Boyhood Home Visit
Horace Bush of North Olmsted aged 87 completed a long trip beginning July 1 visiting Quebec where he spent boyhood days in Han borough, then Brooklyn and Newark with relatives. A retired farmer and market gardener who built his home 65 years ago, he recalls childhood poverty, working at nine, riding a horse for a cultivator, and odd chores such as lighting with tallow. He notes he is a rack number who enjoys dancing and has raised hundreds of bushels of tomatoges though never tasted one.
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Horace Bush
North Olmsted
Quebec
Canada
Brooklyn
N. Y
Newark
N. J
Hanborough
Mr. Bush
Records and legends mark a record skeet year
The piece celebrates trapshooting and skeet records with Dick Shaughnessy winning the National Skeet Championship at age 14 in St Louis Missouri. It highlights 80-year-old Charlie Young of Springfield Ohio whose scores across Florida Ohio and Georgia show a peak season, comparing him with famous shooters like Bogardus Carver and Gilbert and arguing trapshooting benefits field shooting.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Dick Shaughnessy
Charlie Young
Springfield
Ohio
Young
Florida
Daytona Beach Florida
Eustis
St. Petersburg
Punta Gorda
Miami
Joe Hiestand
Mark Arie
Ned Lilly
Dayton
Captain Bogardus
Fred Kimble
Los Angeles
California
Doc” Carver
Fred Gilbert
Bill Crosby
Bogardus
Kindle
Carver
Gilbert
Crosby
Famous New York barbers and their era rituals
New York Day By Day profiles midtown barber Charles De Zemler who tuxes London Paris and Cairo clients from Radio City shop. He counts stars like Vallee and Gibbons as patrons while other famed barbers on Broadway and at Terminal Shops symbolize old New York. Ash tray thefts plague venues, souvenirs are palmed, embossing failed to deter thieves.
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O. O. McIntyre
New York
Mid Town
Charles de Zemler
Radio City
de Zemler
London
Paris
Shepheard
Cairo
de Zemiler
Rudy Vallee
Valles
Fred Allen
Ed C Hill
Lowell Thomas
Floyd Gibbons
The
Wireless
Broadway
John
Terminal Shops
Lower East Side
No Closed Season for Trap Shooters All Year Round
Outdoor hunters and trap and skeet enthusiasts keep firearms handling year round. Licensed field hunters fire shells regularly, while exhibition shooters and tournament participants form a curious crowd asking about loads velocity and gun choices for different game. The piece notes common sense favors seasoned trap and skeet shooters.
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North American Sportsman’s Club, Inc. A
Humor, theft pranks, and stars of stage and screen
The writer critiques hotel pilfering as a prank and notes appraisers in hotels. He riffs on iconic humorists Mickey Mouse, W C Fields, and Gracie Allen, praising Kaufman style sneers. Benchley debates allegiance to Hollywood or theater, lamenting critics' reluctance to laugh while praising a well-timed guffaw.
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Mickey Mouse
W. C. Fields
Gracie Allen
George S. Kaufman
McNaught Syndicate
Robert C. Benchley
Hollywood
Death Watch
Benchiey
Seattle
South Amherst Societies Meet in Local Notes
South Amherst September 21 report notes Mrs Sam Slack hosts Methodist Ladies Aid Society Thursday afternoon with Mrs B O Bailey assisting. Nativity Church parlor hosts Ladies Altar Society all day Thursday with a noon tureen dinner. Carl Koob of Henrietta won the special prize at last Friday’s fish fry. Brief items list attendees visiting Cleveland and Warren relatives. local family gatherings with George Rice and Margaret Rice referenced.
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South Amherst
Sam Slack
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
O. Bailey
Ladies Altar Society
Nativity Church
Carl Koob
Henrietta
John Mori
Albert Wragg
Columbus
Woman’s Union of Evangelical and Reformed Churches
Lewis Kreeger
Cleveland
William Blackwood
Jerry Bolls
Dora Eberts
A. E. Meggs
Warren
George Rice
Margaret Rice
Clem Gratz
Marie
Large Percentage of Milk Becomes Butter
Forty four of every 160 pounds of milk produced in the United States is churned into butter, according to the Consumers' Conquests of relatives in Ashland on Sunday, all of the Department of Agriculture. Of the remaining 56 pounds, 41 are used in fluid form, six eaten as cheese, four poured into cant in the form of evaporated or condensed milk, three made into ice cream, and the rest consumed by calves or used in miscellaneous products such as malted milk, powdered milk, and further uses.
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Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
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America
Jimmy Robinson
Bazley
Folsom
Cal
Acme
O. C. McIntyre
Blank
North American Sportsman's Bureau
Wrigley Blg
Chicago
By Denys’ Wortman
Wortman Orogaam
West Street
Wallace Beery
Jimmy Cagney
Amherst
Ashland
Lorain County Fair
Edith Mae
Shepee
HyGrade Dry Cleaners
Middle Avenue
Fc A
Gus Company
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