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99 years ago in 1923

Adam Lightner, 54, of Champion, was in the city hospital suffering from painful but not serious burns sustained when he lost his balance and fell into a picking vat at the Trumbull Steel mill.

The solution was hot water with a 2 percent acid content, according to a statement from the mill.

Dr. Thomas, the attending physician, and hospital attaches each reported that the man’s burns were painful but only first-degree burns and that he victim would recover. The most serious burns were about the legs. This was due to the fact that Lightner wore long boots and these filled with hot water.

The water was usually heated to 180 degrees, but it was not hot enough that night for use.

Mill workers said it was the first accident of its kind at the Trumbull plant.

50 years ago in 1972

The first rehearsal for the 14th annual Miss Warren pageant was set at the Strouss Music Center rehearsal hall at the corner of Perkinswood SE and Youngstown Road SE.

The Warren Area Jaycees, sponsor of the pageant along with Wollam Chevrolet of Cortland, urged interested girls to register at the rehearsal or the Jaycee office in the old Fairgrounds administration building. Applicants were to be between 18 and 28 and live in Trumbull, Mahoning, Portage or Ashtabula counties.

The theme for the show was “A Hundred Thousand Miracles.” Mrs. Genevive LaPolla was the producer for the show and Wendall Swegan was in charge of set design.

The top prize for the pageant was $500.

25 years ago in 1997:

Anna and Gerald Simpson of Warren went to the Eatswood Mall hoping to find some money.

They discovered $780, but it wasn’t theirs. It belonged to their granddaughter, Nikia Manningham of Cleveland.

The Simpsons found their granddaughter’s money through a portable tracking center run by two employees from the Ohio Department of Commerce. Nearly 500 people flocked to the mall to see if the state had their forgotten cash.

More than $6.8 million was waiting for nearly 75,000 residents of Trumbull, Mahoning and Ashtabula counties. The unclaimed cash came from abandoned bank accounts and safe deposit boxes forgotten rent and utility deposits, and uncashed checks and insurance policies.

The state got the money when the accounts were dormant for five or more years.

Nearly 90 residents claimed between $10,000 and $15,000 under their names or the names of relatives.

10 years ago in 2012:

Masataka Toyota was a dentist. His father was a brain surgeon. So naturally, when his father passed away, it was his wish that Toyota maintain his legacy — and open a nursing home?

So it came to pass.

To learn more about elder care, Toyota and the colleagues spent several weeks touring northeast Ohio health care facilities through international Rotary Club sponsorship.

Toyota, Taichi Kimoto, Masahiro Koketus and Takashi Toshii, all of Japan, spent time in Salem, Warren and Youngstown areas as guests of the Warren Rotary Club, seeing how Americans care for the elderly and the mentally and physically infirm.

Japanese Rotary District 2630 Governor Soushi Ishii contacted Salems’s district Governor George Hays and determined that Ohio was the place to go for research. Mahoning County had a roughly 18 percent elderly population. Trumbull County had 17.4 percent and Ohio had 14 percent elderly population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

— Complied from the archives of the Tribune Chronicle by Allie Vugrincic.