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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1923
Page
5
Fragmentary text shows a reference to Legion McCormick and themes of Americanism and patriotism. The incomplete sentences limit precise specifics, but the notice appears to honor contributions to a veterans or patriotic cause.
Fragmentary text notes a forest gift and traction efforts in a civic area. Readable items include place names and mentions of a local initiative, but details remain unclear due to missing context.
The American Legion plans a $60,000 rubiing grant and a $50,000 endowment to foster citizenship and counter Bolshevik influence after World War I. Wisconsin posts will spend $23,000 for bands and drum corps to attend the San Francisco national convention, with over 300 Legionnaires expected. The Goodland Kansas post aided Boy Scouts with an encampment at Beecher Island, Colorado, showcasing legion work.
A German officer is shown both at his desk and as a bricklayer, illustrating the two jobs many Germans hold to feed their families amid currency woes. Ambassadors and officials discuss relief efforts and reverberations of the Ruhr situation as American aid and reconstruction talk continue.
Toledo reports jack the pet monkey at No. 3 fire station has lost eyesight after drinking suspected poison liquor. Boys treated the animal before it went blind as authorities search for the culprit described as the meanest man in Toledo.
Archbishop Nathan Soederblom of Upsala primate of the Church of Sweden arrives in the United States to lecture in major cities, reaching wide audiences as a prominent international church figure.
The article notes the search for William Milner believed to be the son of William A Bodie of Birmingham England. Authorities say unless Bodie’s relatives can be located the case remains unresolved.
Immigration officials report only three doctors remain to serve the ill across the district. In Middie the shortage mirrors Defiance where local leaders note few physicians for public health needs.
Canton report notes Ed Swope retrieved K G Dunkle 18, held on auto stealing, after Dunkle escaped in a corn field. Swope jokes about corn trampling and a low fugitive fund. Columbus item adds Frank E Neal robbed of 197 dollars while with a girl.
Fay Garner and Austin Forshey, two painters at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. building, fell five stories when scaffold ropes broke. They are reported in safe condition with fractures to their right ankles and body bruises at the city hospital. Neal from Springfield was mentioned in the same report.
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