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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
4
A long list of names from Abbe to Zimmerman appears as a notice to horse thieves and paid up members in Lorain County. The notice promotes buyable property and advertises two new seven room houses in a fine location, urging readers to see the homes as a solid rental alternative.
These and many more are symptoms of defective vision. We will tell you frankly if you need glasses or not.
A garbled listing of grocery prices including lettuce per pound and per head, cucumbers, tomatoes, green onions, celery, beans, peas, potatoes, cabbage, onions, cheese, butter, eggs, sugar, maple products, honey, beans, oats, and poultry. Numerous OCR errors distort quantities and some items. The readable core shows a dense price snapshot for multiple produce and staple items circa an early 20th century local market. Names of items and unit pricing appear interspersed with broken phrases and nonstandard spellings.
Fragmented notices list wants for rooms in Anderson Block with garbled phrases and names. Other items include a Clayton Street rental description, a request for weekly reporters with shown dates, a for sale entry for a mid cow, and a Prof Tyler quote about digestion promoting Kodol for Dyspepsia sold by druggists.
An ad offers guaranteed pile cure with external or internal use and a mail order option. It touts personal reputation backing the product and invites readers to send fifty cents for mail shipment from Bowers Druggist in Elyria, with daily service and consults by an agent. Also advertises Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a non opiate cough remedy available at druggists.
A dated timetable notice for the Lake Shore Electric line lists routes and hours for Cleveland Elyria division westbound service and Lorain beaches, with station stops including Rocky River Dover Eagle Cliffs Beach Park South Lorain Elyria and Vermilion. It shows multiple daily departures, transfer points, and fare instructions, plus ticket guidance and special east bound west bound limiteds and Vermilion/Norwalk connections.
The 250 page annual from the D. & C. Line features three tales titled After Many Years Advance En Route and The Sunset Tryst. Beautiful two tone illustrations depict scenes along the D. & C. Coast Line. Send ten cents to prepaid postage at D. & C. NAVIGATION CO., 6 Wayne St., Detroit, Michigan.
A dated timetable lists numerous trains on the New York and Boston routes and the Toledo and Bucyrus lines with various speeds and destinations. It notes accommodations, express and fast mail services, and division routes via Sandusky and Norwalk with multiple train numbers and arrival times. Administrative names A. J. Smith and G. Poets Ret appear at the end.
Train and streetcar times issued for multiple routes including Elyria Cleveland Oberlin Wellington Lorain and Norwalk with frequent hourly and every 20 to 40 minute intervals. Faded names Wilbon P A Buswell Agt Bizia appear as officials amid the timetable garble.
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