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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1906
Page
8
Report states White faced embezzlement charges and was released on mayoral order. He departed town soon after and civil suits reportedly were not likely to proceed.
In Youngstown on April 3 attorney Frank Jacobs opened Burke versus Horan seeking $2,000 in damages for alleged false arrest. He stated Mrs Mary Burke refused to cremate two nieces of Mrs Catherine Horan and the latter caused her arrest and prosecution before former Mayor Gibson on a charge of stealing dishes. The case continues.
Dr George W Whitney of Mohican pleaded guilty to arson and was sentenced by Judge Killets to one year in the penitentiary. Whitney set fire to his home and office in Alfordton in April 1901 and collected 61.60 in insurance.
A letter argues that higher education may fuel crime by arming youth with new tools while acknowledging that college can still aid the honest. The piece contrasts brutal crime with subtler misdeeds and questions the net effect of scholarly training. A bank incorporation in Leetonia forms another brief item.
A noted Elyria trend among women is pyrography the craft of burning designs into wood or leather with a hot metal point. Though not new the hobby has gained fresh momentum with reproductions by Charles Dana Gibson and Howard Chandler Christy on prepared surfaces. Boxes frames trays and steins in white wood offer ready or DIY options for creative finish.
Mrs Sarah Harris of Upper Sandusky died at home west of the city after a brief illness. She would have turned 102 on the 17th, was born in Pennsylvania, and mothered ten children, five of whom survive. she spent nearly a century on the family farm.
The report notes Samuel Harris, who has been deceased for eighteen years, with details that until Saturday a woman performed light household tasks and could read without glasses.
Akron Ohio April 3. The lower plant of the Falls River and Machine Co. in Cuyahoga Falls suffered near total destruction by fire. The blaze began in the machine department destroying valuable machines. The bellroom lumber rooms blacksmith shops river room and packing areas followed in turn as oil soaked structures burned rapidly. About 200 workers were left unemployed by the disaster.
A company reports two plants burned with estimated value 125 000 dollars and losses around 100 000 dollars, mostly insured. The piece then pivots to postwar geopolitics noting Japan’s Sakhalin claim and Manchuria questions, China’s interests, and Russia’s potential indemnity or territorial concessions, ending with a general reflection on ambition and humor.
We the undersigned have known J. Cheney for 15 years and believe him trustworthy in all business. Walding, Keinan & Mary Wholesale Druggists of Toledo certify Hall's Catarrh Cure as directly affecting the mucous membranes. Testimonials say 75c per bottle. Sold by druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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