A Hundred Years Ago In Lorain – Part 1

Here’s a nice glimpse of what was going on in Lorain, Ohio one hundred years ago yesterday. It’s the front page of the Lorain Times-Herald for Monday, May 24, 1920.

The main item of interest to me originally was the announcement that the opening of the new Bath House at Lakeview Park was planned for Decoration Day (Memorial Day).

For a while, it was unclear when that very first bath house opened. It was originally supposed to be ready in 1919 (which I wrote about here). Unfortunately, the opening was pushed into 1920.

Sadly, it would be pretty much destroyed by the infamous tornado in 1924.

Anyway, there’s plenty of other interesting things to be found elsewhere on the front page (that is, if you can read the tiny type).

There’s a small blurb noting that Jack the Peeper was at it again, this time in the Fourth Street and Hamilton Avenue area. Also in the news: a manhunt for John Joyce, a Cleveland saloon keeper who allegedly shot Harold Kagy; the tragic death of Carl Schmauch, Amherst automobile dealer, in a accident involving the car in which he was driving and a Michigan Central freight train; and the bar room shooting of Stanley Jacoboski by Michael Martini (which you can read more about in Don Hilton’s Murders, Mysteries and History of Lorain County, 1824-1956).

On the local health front (not unlike today’s daily coronavirus statistics), there were reports of three cases of scarlet fever, two of typhoid and three of whooping cough.