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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1906
Page
4
Old newspaper advert describes 6 to 12 year old girls garments including a white linen blouse with blue braid, shielded bodice, elbow sleeves, and a sailor collar. It lists fabrics, sizes 6 8 10 12, pattern numbers 379 390 378 5378 6378, and yardage requirements for various widths and trims.
In a Salonwitzblatt vignette a barter of drinks sparks a joke exchange about credit and a rich uncle. A peasant jokes about a burning cottage as the Volunteer Fire Chief laments a missing medal in the dark.
In a dramatic courtroom scene a prisoner relives a near fatal ordeal waking in a dissecting room. He crawls to freedom through a hospital like ward and a street lamp lights his path to an exit as the judge discharges him amid a money-throwing crowd.
Classifieds list a general housework job with wages at 248 West 6th Street, and a rental notice for a large modern suite on Clayton Third Street. Also missing person like lost pin, a reporter's weekly dates, and a farm exchange offer for a 60 acre property in Lindenville, plus multiple job ads at 668 Broad Street and 244 Washington Avenue.
Classifieds announce boarding for students at Elyria area college and a Wellington farm sale of 75 acres with buildings near the railroad and creamery. Also job seeks for carpenters and a dish washer, plus travel schedules to Lorain, Cleveland, and surrounding towns.
A dress pattern description for girls aged four to eight highlights Empire styling in white Persian lawn with German Valenciennes lace. The gown offers options: plain back view, trimmed variations, embroidery insertions, or a low neck by omitting the yoke. Suitable fabrics include lawn, cotton blends, chiffon, and wool blends.
A fragmented grocery price list shows items such as lettuce cucumbers tomatoes green onions celery beans peas peppers and various sugars and cheeses. Several entries are garbled but indicate per pound per bunch per peck or per gallon pricing for items including potatoes onions cabbage and beans with mentions of sugar honey and cheese brands.
Train and streetcar routes listed from Cleveland to Elyria Oberlin Wellington Lorain and Norwalk with hourly and mixed intervals. Timetables include departures from Public Square Elyria and various towns, limiteds and express runs, labeled by origin and destination. Officials J. G. Wilson and E. H. Buswell are named as contacts.
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