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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
5
Partial timetable shows services for Oberlin with hourly departures from early morning to late evening including 9 10 50 PM and 9 40 10 40 12 46 2 40 4 40 6 40 and 10 20 PM. Also notes a party schedule from 6 49 AM on Saturday and PM entries.
The writer urges buying breathable summer wear during tough economic times, suggesting cool heads and cool bodies. They promote legitimate stores offering real price reductions on summer goods, noting limited lightweight options remain and advising either wearing out or giving away old clothes to save money.
JLouwis Schneler of Elyria appointed by the probate court as administrator of the estate of Thomas Sharkey, late of Grafton. A neti filed by Marvin Mosher seeks permission to sell lands to pay debts. Also noted is an executor Walter Mosher and an exemplified will copy for Sarah M Lindsey of Erie. Also items on bake sale and an excursion to Niagara Falls and Montreal are listed in brief notices.
The item lists church Sunday Bible class attendance at Sab bath school, a Dixon's Bargain Store dinner with Earl Vogelsong, and a note on the Savage Grand Opera company members. It mentions a Diriam family reunion in Elyria with up to 1 000 attendees at Ruggles Grove on a Saturday in August, plus an Amherst firemen tournament dispute and concerns over local and Elyria department competition affecting participation.
Dr O T Maynard and his wife returned to England on Monday after visits to Egypt Palestine and other eastern countries. They then toured Ireland before a London Dublin clinic and said Europe made him love America best. He joked about the Blarney Stone but denied kissing it. They have been away from Elyria since February.
Akron dispatch reports fourteen year old Ethel Watters saying she will never go back alive. Her father, who took the girl from Alliance's children's home, ordered her return by a probate judge. The couple claims they can care for her after her mother died.
A 57 year old Ernest Steinhardt, once a traveling salesman for a Kentucky whisky house, killed himself by morphine after writing a note that he would not earn his living by selling liquor. He had resigned at his wife's request and tried other jobs without success, misty with despondency. The report spans St Louis and Elyria notes with various local notices and ads from August 1906.
A 19th century ad pack previews health elixirs and travel notes. It promotes a topical cure for itching and digestion, a mail order offer from druggist C Bowers in Elyria, and vivid tourist copy for Cambridge Springs with Erie Railroad excursion rates. It also quotes Prof Tyler on digestion and endorses Kodol for Dyspepsia sold by apothecaries.
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