Word: elyria
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...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...Accuse! In Elyria, Ohio, after Mrs. Alice Bew telephoned police to come arrest her husband George for drunkenness, two patrolmen arrived, listened to both Bews, locked up Alice but left George free...
...electronic blood-pressure recorder developed by the National Bureau of Standards has been marketed by Colson Corp. of Elyria, Ohio. Attached to the patient's arm, it will record blood pressure at whatever intervals the doctors want, from 30 seconds to an hour. Attached to a buzzer, it can call the nurse when pressure gets critically low. Price...
Necessity. In Elyria, Ohio, Crawford Casebolt, charged with auto theft, explained that he needed a car to report to authorities in Tennessee where he is on parole for auto theft...
...monopolize the dissemination of news, advertising and other information. It was the first antitrust action charging a newspaper with seeking to injure a competing radio station. Besides refusing ads, the Journal was accused of trying to persuade employees of WEOL to quit, and of making a deal with an Elyria paper not to circulate or solicit ads in Lorain...