"Howling in from the northwest after a few warning roars of thunder and flashes of lightning, a 60-mile gale accompanied by an early spring thunderstorm, hit the city last night, threw Lorainites into a panic and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage," noted the report.
"The wind, driving solid sheets of rain before it and stinging faces of unprepared pedestrians and autoists, bowled over trees, blew in windows in downtown stores and in residences in the outlying districts and drove frightened people into the streets to escape, they believed, another tornado."
Remember, it was only a year earlier that the infamous Lorain Tornado of 1924 had devastated the city – so it's not surprising that the residents were on edge. Speaking of the tornado, a relief bill for Lorain was still working its way through the State House in Columbus, as reported by William E. Ashbolt.
Elsewhere on the front page are some pretty disturbing articles. A two car accident at the intersection of Globe Ave. and 30th Street left one man dead (with his head crushed) as well as three others injured. I guess it was common back then to present the news in the most gruesome way possible.
Two other small items were a parent's worst nightmare: a baby girl in Columbus dying by falling on scissors, and a Cleveland baby suffocating while sleeping between her parents.
But there was an uplifting article. Frederick Atwood, supreme prelate of the Lodge of Knights of Pythias, addressed a crowd at Lorain High School with a speech about ways to attain happiness. Atwood apparently accomplished that feat despite being blind.
And oddly enough, right in the middle of a page filled with tragedy and unhappiness, is a funny cartoon. It shows two citizens, flattened by a steam roller labeled '1925 Income Tax Payment,' but smiling because they felt that the income tax was lighter this year.