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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1906
Page
4
A cluster of candidate notices for Lorain County offices includes sheriff and county commissioner bids, all pending decisions by Republican county conventions. Also noted are horse racing updates, trainer plans, and breeding results from Ohio and nearby tracks.
An odd old advertisement touts a thin preparation for gas besges that supposedly shines and resists washing for months. It is said to kill a buat on stove pipes screens stoves or any iron work and claim long lasting effect. Price is listed as asc.
A long list details transfers of land in Lorain and adjoining townships including Pittsfield Elyria and Wellington. Notable parties include Frank Myers, West Virginia Railway Company, Henry Horning, Adam Kolbe, Lilian Briend, and John E Powell among others with various sums from 50 to 5000 dollars. The section also notes an unrelated ad for laxative tablets Early Risers and a society notice of an upcoming wedding in Lovelock Bl Marys church.
Refugees arriving in Los Angeles recount chaotic scenes after the San Francisco quake. Witnesses describe crowds carrying severed bodies, household items, statues, phonographs, and sewing machines amid collapsed buildings and open streets. An elderly woman among the evacuees remains hopeful. Sydney Harris, visiting refugee, aided by soldiers to dig out ovens for bread. The piece notes fear, loss, and shared hardship across social classes in the relief camps. Also mentions Haiti granting a railroad concession to a U.S. company.
The Paris Matin honors an anonymous inventor with a $2000 prize for a purely scientific method to destroy house fly eggs. The technique targets eggs in drains using a crude patrol mixed with water, claimed to eliminate breeding in pipes.
Richard Elmore reports a fine colt fouled by Gazette .07 percent out of a well bred mare. Mare to be bred back. C HE Raumby purchases Americas 2.11 percent4 by Young Rifle dam Piccola by Harvester for Dayton matinees. Flyingdotte by Bernadette now with Mike Bowerman at Lexington after missing races last season due to a bad spin.
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