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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1907
Page
4
A suburban train stalled in a blizzard. a commuter crawls to safety and sends a note to the telegraph operator saying he will not be at the office today and was not home yesterday, highlighting hardship and humor from harsh winter travel.
D. Swift & Co reports multiple Ohio residents issued patents this week for items such as vehicle wheels fruit pickers rotary dryers advertising machines pumps brush pikes and other mechanical devices. Names include Ambler Berger Brinker Brown Burkholder Crittenden Diehl Heyhurst Morine Nevin Olcott Gobel Shanan Smith Storer Valliquette Werts and Pauly with a variety of tools and hardware.
Elyria residents push for a belt line around the square and a second track on Cheapside to reduce car delays and avoid crowding on Court street. Supporters demand fair access and restrict monopoly risks while noting unrelated city notes and odd items from Chicago and Kalamazoo.
A compact montage of humorous vignettes and folk humor from life on the rails and in the home. Stories include Dad Murphy the brisk trunk-line conductor, a lightning night watched by a child named Paul, and a comical Irishman’s homestead inquiry with a parable on land grants.
The article portrays William Howard Taft as the target of Foraker’s bid to stop the favored son of Ohio from securing the Republican nomination. It notes Roosevelt’s backing, Ohio machine influence, and the broader clash between Foraker and the party establishment as Taft is positioned as the counter to senatorial power and the so called reform movement.
The article profiles Harriman as a star performer in rail line schemes and a leading light in the Anan sas society. It notes his vivid imagination and warns he can persuade audiences as a magician and hypnotist and even as a deft letter writer, manipulating facts as skillfully as railroads.
The New York Times defines the social 400 as those whose only business is pleasure whether pure or evil minded. A. R. Wedber announces his law office will be at the Turner block in Elyria starting March 15, 1907.
Mrs. E W Pitts bedridden seven weeks. George Holmsworth Jr ill with pneumonia and a broken limb. Jenn Clark sustained leg injury. Miss Jennie Sherburne visiting from Indianapolis. Local residents return from Georgia Florida trip in better health. many visits and moves noted. Ladies Benevolent Society annual meeting elects officers. Various visits to Elyria and Birmingham mentioned. births and recoveries noted in community.
A vintage advertisement touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children and Anise as a 24 hour cure for feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and worms. It claims to move and regulate the bowels and to be the best medicine for feverish constipated children with a 25 cent sample by mail from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
Wellington residents engage in visits and moves with Mrs A R Palmer and son Lawrence in Tryon NC. News includes Watters moving dry goods to Horr block, Florence Meizker in New London, Frank Bowlby family in Starr House, and Chas Jamieson on Cincinnati business. School club raised about 54 for debate and oratory. Eloise Rosti won best reciter. Kitchen and Pease won debate honors. Mayor remarks on Wet and Dry issue in opera house. Chrisomes include Mrs George Schon visiting from Toledo, BE Watts at funeral in Cuyahoga Falls, and others returning from Tohasco. Gannett home for voting, Sadie Thompson visiting, and Waeman’s sale at Congregational church. Mayor Braison orders booze confiscation from an Italian boarding house.
Every rheumatic invited today to try Uric-O with a free trial bottle mailed to any sufferer by sending name address and druggist name to Smith Drug Co Syracuse. No cost, home use, and personal recommendation expected to spread word. Sold by Eady's Drug Store in Byria.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. Schmitz Walter Péter died April 2, 1907. Funeral was April 4 at St. Mary's church Elyria with Rev. J.T. Schofield officiating. Burial followed in St. Mary's Catholic cemetery Elyria. The piece ends with a short elegiac verse.
Rochester residents hosted friends and relatives this week with visits from C Mitchell and wife in Wellington, H D Bonney from Lorain, and E C Trish’s sister and wife joining Will Irish and family. Hazel Jewett and Cora Laundon also visited, while Mrs Murray of Elyria spent time with Mrs Jewett. a local ad touts D D D Prescription skin wash for immediate relief.
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