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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1904
Page
2
The Elyria Reporter outlines subscription options including daily and weekly rates. Pricing appears per month, with a separate daily option and a weekly board rate. The notice provides basic terms for readers choosing various service plans.
An old congressional dispute over rural mail carrier pay is resolved as Bristow's mileage based plan is rescinded. Rural carriers will now receive 730 dollars starting July 1, restoring parity with city carriers and prompting calls for further equalization and efficiency improvements in rural delivery. The article also contains job ads for Watt Help Wanted and related factory positions.
Mayor King of Lorain ruled in a city case against Vetor Ratz that a building is not a church until dedicated as a house of worship. Ratz contested operating a saloon within 800 feet of the church site in South Lorain. Glitseh and Adams for Ratz argued, while City Solicitor Hughes pressed the city position. The decision held the 800 foot rule applies to the church site, not the church itself, since dedication determines church status.
Mayor A WY Carter of Oberlin reports that Cleveland’s old volunteer firemen will attend the county firefighters reunion and tournament in Cleveland on August 17. They will bring a band engine and carriage.
Local items from Pittsfield detail the death of Henry Pomeroy on Monday evening and a marriage at a home on Wednesday July 12 performed by Rev. GC Enders. Visitors include Mrs. Delia Fowler of Toledo and Mrs. Charlie West of Wellington. Mr and Mrs Davis plan to relocate to Carlton Maryland after a brief stay in Detroit.
Harvest Hands offers one way and second Claus rates on a single ticket via Wisconsin Central Bey to Minnesota and North Dakota at 14 per capita. Boston excursions August 12, 15 and 14 with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern lines at a one cent per mile rate to Boston and return. Tickets valid through September 30 with stopovers at Chautauqua Lake Niagara Falls Paterson Bay and New York. Inquiries to Lake Shore agents or A J Smith Cleveland Ohio.
A partial LaGrange column notes guests including J Pishard of Cleveland visiting his parents, families in Brighton and Vlyrin, telephony work in Columbia, and local social events. Several minor accidents and illnesses are mentioned, plus carnival attendance in Elyria and travel plans for a Knights Templar Conclave tour to California. Local residents Bert Rawson and others are referenced in everyday happenings and ads conclude with Mack Rocky Mountain Tea and canning supplies.
Teasdale and Sawyers begin a large clearance sale this week featuring summer tent wear. The event promises reduced prices on a range of camping gear and outdoor apparel suited for warm weather use.
Readers urged to visit the Oberlin Business College before choosing a school of that character. The panel emphasizes a thorough investigation and asserts the school is justly rewarded as one of the best.
Notice of Removal Beginning August let out, office work for Ue Broad street office will be removed to N. P. Wooster's Drug store. If more convnt orders for the retail department can be attended, to at this office, our North street office at the yard No. 218, will take care of the whole sale and retail work. We are agents for Massillon and Goshen Domestic and Steam Coal. We carry a full supply of all kind of building material. Can make special prices to contractors in car lots. Portland cement lake sand walk plaster sewer pipe and all the clay products. The Sampson flagging for sidewalks is also handled from the Morth street office. Elyria Goal and Sewer Pipe Co., E. F. Sanford, Prop. 256112.
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