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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1907
Page
4
The Daily Reporter offers home delivery by carrier at 83.00 per year and mail delivery at 3.00 to Elyria. The Weekly issue is 1.00 per year by mail. Republican Printing Co. urges subscribers to report delivery issues to the main office by phone.
A critical view of Ohio parole practice argues pardons bias toward well connected defendants. The piece cites Lorain County cases including Walker, Baker, Han ford, Wheeler, and Kaneen, noting pardons often precede appellate outcomes and undermine court evidence rules. It contrasts class bias with prison reforms and cites historical parallels in France and Napoleonic era. It ends with scattered local anecdotes and a prompt to read the paragraph to a spouse.
A playful verse mocks insurance agents and rate cutting. It notes no gain without risk, mentions a board, a ferret named Steve, and indictment implications while blaming insurers for public excitement and inaction in reducing rates.
As Others See it editor Ferdinand Gave to WM 8S Wapellar accuses Cappeller of misrepresenting farmer views in Ohio. He says Ohio farmers detest Foraker as a corporate tool and Roosevelt adversary, calling him a traitor to their interests and as dangerous as a rattlesnake.
EN Senator Churston has made himself unpopular in Nebraska with recent attacks on President Roosevelt. With Mr Thurs ton giving time to railroads and corporations he likely seeks to please his current employers over his former constituents.
Sporting Life highlights Ohio as a racing state in its 1906 year book. One hundred and two race meetings were held in Ohio in 1906, one fewer than 1905, with total purses exceeding any prior year and average purses higher despite many fairs and smaller events.
Race meetings in Ohio last year saw improved management and stricter rule enforcement. Early negotiations for purses helped raise total money, while better officials and conduct raised the sport on a more satisfactory, popular footing as the people's wholesome pastime.
LaGrange notes list many visitors and illnesses including Clarance J Barber of Oberlin and Miss Cole of Wellington. An obituary honors Nettie Estella Pelton born 1863 and died 1907, detailing a large family and sorrowful funeral at the M E B church with Rev. Thistle officiating.
A large wedding united Lynn Knowles and many others from Elyria Cleveland Columbia Geneva and surrounding towns on April 5 in Geneva. The article notes farmers discouraged by heavy snowstorms delaying oats sowing while several scholars plan to attend Boxwell examination in Elyria next Saturday. Also mentions Hollister's Rock Mountain Tea advertised by Phillips & Co.
Mr and Ars Squires arrived home Saturday evening from Florida to tend a gravely ill sister with typhoid fever and bring back her sick child and the body of a deceased boy for burial. Friends offer sympathy as Ina Dure nears recovery from an operation. Local illnesses include rheumatism heart and dropsy affecting several residents. Mrs French injured in a fall at 80, while Mrs Hughes was ill last week. Wedding bells ring as Minnie Foley and Henry Orenberg marry and begin housekeeping.
East Rochester reports a social gathering with guests from Sheffield Wheeling and Miw London. Frank Caley and Mrs Arthur Biney attended with local families at Irish Hollow Saturday night. Additional visitors included Mr W Me Crandall Seville and Miss Lord Landon Nova visiting Mrs Jim after a severe grip.
Rochester item notes Mrs B P Johnston of Brighton visiting her son C S Johnston in Rochester. Also mentions Mrs Ed Wedyard shopping in Wellington, Shirly Gul from Cleveland visiting home, and Ethel Taylor a Brownhem teacher spending Sunday at home.
Large 7 room house with barn on West Side near shops. Ideal for boarding house. Fruit trees grapes currants clerern lake water gas. Reasonable first payment 810 per month at 6 percent interest. Apply C A Cox Reporter Want Ada bring results.
A garbled montage of names, partial notices, political hints, a weathered ad blurb, and stray sentences. It mentions candidates for city solicitor, local households, a plan for a shanty near a depot, and an advertisement for Kodol digestive aid asserting stomach rest and relief with a local druggist selling it.
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