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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1936
Page
9
A historian argues that poverty does not prevent war. Citing World War I, he notes governments suspend peacetime economics in wartime, boost production, borrow heavily, and inflate currency to fund conflict, often leaving future generations to bear the cost.
Twenty five years after the first air mail flight the tribute highlights Earle Ovington who carried a ten mile sack of mail from Nassau to Mineola in 1911 with a Bleriot monoplane. The piece contrasts early hazards with modern aviation showing progress from fragile beginnings to routine air mail.
National Safety Council data for seven months show 18 560 deaths, just 330 below last year’s record figure. Cities backslide in July with an 11 percent rise, while New York’s strict penalties and enforcement offer a glimmer of relief amid a grim national trend.
The passage quotes 19th century observer Macaulay on Spain's stubborn resistance. It contrasts Spain's mob-like yet soldierly readiness, strong fortresses, and fierce, lingering warfare from Roman times through the War of the Spanish Succession and beyond. It frames Spain as perpetually resistant, difficult to conquer, with a history of intense local vigor.
A curio diary entries from New York dated Sept 28 recounts café visits, a Paris-bound painter daughter, a dock visit for a Paris servant, and chatter about Mary Ellen Bute and Visual Music. It notes celebrities Dolores Costello and Dorothy Parker, Zigfeld era acts, and odd anecdotes from London and Broadway circles.
A compiled list notes births and deaths of figures such as Arnold H. Gurot Frances Willard George W. Peck George Clemenceau Kate Douglas Wiggin Franklin Paine Mall Richard B W Harrison Cabrillo and others with dates spanning 1542 to 1833, highlighting contributions in geography temperance publishing acting and exploration.
Chronology notes 1830 flogging of seamen abolished on U S ships of commerce by Act of Congress. 1864 first Communist International in London as International Workingmen's Association led by Karl Marx. 1869 Horace Mann School for Deaf founded in Boston with first sessions on November 19. 1918 American aviation excels in war with 60 enemy planes and 12 balloons down in two days.
The column lists several birthday observances for public figures including Dr. Thomas Parran Jr. born in St. Leonard Maryland, director William M. Milliken born in Stamford Connecticut, sculptor Frederick MacMonnies born in New York, William S. Paler of CBS born in Chicago, Homer S. Saint-Gaudens director at the Carnegie Institute born in Boston, and novelist Leonard Nason born in Somerville Massachusetts.
Cincinnati dispatch notes Japan using self defense justifications for an armed landing party six hundred miles into China and martial law in Shanghai areas. It asserts ongoing Japanese incursions into China and Manchuria, blaming League of Nations for failing to curb Japan's empire ambitions.
A 1936 McNaught Syndicate column by Alice Longworth warns that Japanese militarists ignore world opinion as they seek trade and territory in China. The piece notes nations’ commercial interest yet inaction as Japanese soldiers stand guard in the doorway.
For 80 years an artesian well sunk by two pioneer settlers near an old Indian trading post has supplied water to residents without fail. Today it averages 60 000 gallons daily and villagers seek to preserve the well as a historical landmark.
War Department approves formation of three national guard units and erection of an armory on Kauai, the territory’s northernmost island, which previously had no national guard presence.
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