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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
3
A scrambled OCR fragment describes chocolate preparation with dates and a nut or cereal element. It mentions pressing mixtures into molds, sprinkling with icing sugar, and drying on a tray, but many words are garbled, making the full process unclear.
The piece explains sweating as a modern police interrogation tactic where prisoners are pressured to confess. It contrasts current practice with past harsh punishments like whipping and dungeon, noting that sweating aims to obtain usable clues, often via interviews in police stations or lockups before magistrate hearings, with varying procedures per case.
A ton of turkey will supply the Ohio penitentiary Christmas dinner for about 1500 convicts. Cranberry sauce will be on the menu and the Williams-Littleton vaudeville company will perform in the prison chapel after the feast. Christmas Eve prayer services are a leading feature this year.
An official notes ten cars have been ordered to ease overcrowding but mentions it will take weeks to deliver. He cites the need for double tracking on parts of Tenth Avenue to handle steel works traffic and reduce congestion, with officials admitting more than ten cars will be needed soon.
Nine bankers are in the Ohio penitentiary this year, including four from this county, with three more awaiting trial. The list covers National Bankers and adds E. F. Kaneen, Dana, and H. Walker from State banks. Names include Otts Hayes of Galion, A. B. Spear of Oberlin, L. P. Ohliger of Wooster, C. M. Burns of Montpelier, Edward Flickinger of Galion, WE Treese of Cleveland, Edward Kaneen of Lorain, Dana Walker of Lorain, and H. B. Walker of Lorain. awaiting trial are J. R. Zimmerman of Wooster, O. C. Lilly of Conneaut, and M. Traver of Conneaut.
An old advertisement claims De Witts Little Early Risers cleanse the stomach and bowels to relieve headaches and constipation without gripe. It touts Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy for pain labeled as rheumatism neuralgia lumbago or pleurisy and promotes five cent tea or tablets from H A Dykeman in The Reporter newspaper.
The article notes the front hall of a small house as the first and lasting impression upon entering. It contrasts pleasant entrances with odorful, chilly halls and suggests remedies including doors, windows, cleanliness, and gentle fragrances like lavender to create an inviting atmosphere and counteract lingering scents of meals.
A vintage soup column describes Mock Turtle Soup with a turtle spice bag and meat saved for later, then bones simmered for broth. It covers Best of All Vegetable Soup, Cream Vegetable Soup, and Baked Bean Soup with steps, ingredients, and finishing touches.
Train No 11 operates daily except Sunday via Akron with Nos 17 16 43 equipped with Pullman and parlor cars. G A Dachtler is the ticket agent at the station.
A peasant disappears in Minsk province. His sister dreams of his murder by her husband and brothers, with exact date and river burial. The sister seeks help from her father-in-law, who warns of hard justice and orphaned children, but the spirit continues to seek burial.
The article recounts a murder where Boon the Dews teased local authorities, the river was searched, and the body was located exactly where indicated. The confessed killers provided full crime details, describing how after a meal they attacked the victim, cut off his legs for a larger sack, tied a stone to his neck, and cast him into the river. A Russian paper notes a cholera outbreak tale of a father’s fearsome coincidence involving an undertaker and an eldest son’s death and apparent double.
Beat four eggs very light and add pulverized sugar soda cream of tartar milk flour and chopped apple. Mix several minutes then bake in gem pans after battering and heating. TRY OUR WANT COLUMNS.
Schedule fragment lists lines 38 Cols. and Cinci Ex 1 6 47 Collid and Sal Ex 648 25 Cols and Cincl Ex 10 48 No 25 daily trains daily except Sunday with other daily runs.
Transit timetable details list hourly departures from Elyria to Public Square Cleveland and back, with multiple limiteds and varying peak times. Additional routes cover Oberlin Oberliga and limiteds, Wellington Lorain North Amherst Grafton Birmingham Berlin Heights Norwalk, plus Birmingham area times. J Q Wilson, P A, 614 Garfield Bldg., Cleveland.
The Lorain Street Railway runs from Elyria to South Lorain and Lorain starting at 6 00 a m every uk minutes to 10 Bw. then at 10 40 11 20 12 00 19 40 and 1 20 4 a m The 12 40 and 1 20 4 a m cars run only to South Lorain.
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