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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1907
Page
8
Local residents and farms show movement as owners rent or sell plots across Oberlin and Brighton. Several families, including the Crosiers, McRoberts, Beam, and Campbell, relocate, with trades and milk routes shifting among neighbors. Social events note gatherings for Clara Campbell and Miss Rose Wearth ant Wa. Wilbart wedding plans at St. Peter's church.
Ridgeville and nearby communities report residents with rheumatism visits and guests. Mrs. Henry Blake and M L Beebe visited Mrs. Stillwell in Olmstead while the Whitcomb family moved from Grafton to the Fuller farm. Many relatives gathered to spend a Sunday with Mr and Mrs Marcus Terrell and their children.
Avon notes include social visits from Mrs May Cole and Ber nice, Ruth Gray returns to Cleveland, Miss Eva Frantz's Avon weekend, Miss Grace Barrett's birthday party with a bracelet, and obituaries for Mrs William Irish and Dr Truman B Daily. Funeral services and local blessings mark the week in Sheffield and Avon Baptist circles. Several residents and visitors from Rocky River, Amherst, Athens, Ridgeville, and Elyria are listed among mourners and attendees.
The thaw lunacy commission examined Dr McLane Hamilton in secret regarding Harry K. Thaw. Hamilton maintained Thaw suffers chronic delusional insanity or paranoia based on four prior examinations, the last in July 1906.
Mr Howard A Tennant died at his home east of the center after a lingering illness. Born in Oberlin on June 3 1860 he lived in the township most of his life and joined the Baptist church at sixteen. He was a charter member of the Sons of Veterans Lodge and served as chaplain. He married Fannie Mohrmian in 1884 and leaves two children Albert and Lulu. Funeral at his home conducted by Rev Hemmerly with interment in Camden cemetery in a steel vault.
A partial Camden page mentions Mrs Latteman visiting Taraln with her daughter and a Young Men’s Baraca maple sugar social at Elmer Morgan’s. It notes sheep shearing has begun but cold weather continues and a women’s society will serve dinner at the church. Kiptaa factory on the
Charles Smith left for Wyoming after a visit here for over two weeks. Mr and Mrs W R Squire traveled to Melbourne Florida to visit the sister who is ill. Peter Everett visited Lorain last Saturday. Charles Weeden bought the old Weeden homestead. A J Case bought the Case farm at the center. Charles Mills rented the D Cracker farm. A Walkden bought the Nettle Stranahan place on Spring Street Beres. Jesse Burnett sprained his ankle. Mr and Mrs Lewis visited Cleveland Saturday. Mrs Haynes is very sick and recovering. Obsolete skin disease remedy advertised at Phillipa Coe.
North Eaton reports visitors F Hud son and Chas Ross of Cleveland spent the day at M C Ross home. Miss Sadie Montell of Columbia works for Mrs Calkins. Richard Crowell attended in Cleveland negotiating for next season milk sales. Mrs Janet Longdow, ill with quinsy, is improving. Ethel Ross visited Cleveland last week. Mr M Redington is feeble this winter. Ethel Bowman will work for Mrs A Nichols this winter.
The Toledo Blade markets itself as the best known national weekly in the United States with broad circulation and affordability. It claims wide nationwide reach, emphasizes plain facts, provokes easy reading for busy people, and offers stories and family content for one dollar annually.
American admiration for U S traveling salesmen who bolster foreign trade with patriotic branding. W J Clark lauds their hard work and trustworthiness while noting European imitators adopt American names to market goods.
The banana plant serves many roles beyond food. In the West Indies its leaves shelter young crops. medical dressings use unopened leaves. old leaves become twine and boxes. Malay soap is made from stalks, and juice yields salt and dye from ash. Banana fiber aids Manila hemp rope making. hat braids in Switzerland. export wax on leaf undersides fuels trade.
Editor Mr Simpson of the American Gentleman laments changing men’s fashion and physique. He argues trousers have settled into a sterile, conventional style while modern transit and elevators erode grace, leaving men with flesh only under the waistband.
A Denver Post item describes a couple of elk pausing before the Colorado Midland ticket office on Seventeenth Street. They notice a stuffed stork in the window beside a baby camel while city passenger agent Jim Davis answers their query. The pair quickly leaves.
Ferdinando Nicholls once rector of St. Mary Arches Exeter paused his sermon when several aldermen in the congregation fell asleep. After the audience stirred, he spoke to the drowsy aldermen urging them to listen more diligently as he continued the sermon.
A study by Skineay Lee reports dire results from poor English practice at the Academy. The piece laments municipal libraries overflowing with mediocre literature and a general decline in public taste, describing a small MugNak circle as the only refined audience.
A health feature highlights Dr. George Edmund Flood’s interview on chronic ailments and the value of water, urging hydration and reduced tea and coffee. It promotes a Barkola compound prescription for rheumatism and kidney issues, plus rest for the digestive system and the benefits of KODOL as a stomach relief remedy.
Readers are urged that constipation causes headaches dizziness and fatigue while drastic measures fail. Dean's Regulats claim to ease bowels gently and cure constipation for 25 cents. ask your druggist for the remedy.
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