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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1905
Page
2
The Daily Reporter offers carrier delivery at 4 per week and 3.00 per year outside Ly ria by mail. The Weekly Reporter is priced per year and mailed by carrier.
The Senate cuts the Panama canal publicity budget, pressing for a purely business build without a press bureau. Congress questions salaries and delays persist as engineers are urged to endure twelve months on site. Hoch is found guilty of bigamy and other crimes, joining suspicions about several wives’ deaths. Roosevelt hints at remedies for rate discrimination. A 96 year old Vermont woman joins the G A R relief corps. About six thousand Dunkards are admitted to Pentonville Prison annually in London.
An advice note explains that unhealthy plants and hair problems come from a root germ and cannot be cured by surface remedies. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as a product that destroys the germ at the roots, with Detroit as the company base and E A Dykeman listed as special agent.
The board of health reports no local typhoid links to lake water after a year and three months of operation. They credit sewerage, milk, and food inspections, and aggressive nuisance abatement, with Elyria’s notably low death rate. Foreigner settlements are cited as a future health risk due to sanitation failures.
A Columbus subcommittee pushes Pattison inauguration toward completion with an anticipated cost around 16000 dollars. Mrs Pattison shows strong interest in preparations while the governor elect’s reception is set for the Senate chamber. A parade feature will be a large float of ancient castles guarded by stout knights and memorials to the governor elect. Mrs John M Pattison has returned to Cincinnati seeking housing, with the Milhoff heirs to decide on renting the old Milhoff residence at Fifth and Broad opposite the cathedral.
A council resolution moves to study automatic tapper for the city fire department. If installed, residents would trigger bell sound from the telephone exchange by contacting central dispatch and stating the fire location. The device is described as the latest improved fire alarm now used in many large cities.
Columbus December 20. A local parody notes a growing colony of bankers in the Ohio penitentiary. It details how bankers receive favored treatment, access, and speech, while other inmates are restricted, listing twelve bankers by name and their clerical roles within the prison offices.
Our holiday stock of handkerchiefs is the largest in the city. We have allotted all available space at the right entrance to display and sell handkerchiefs neatly boxed with bet ter values never known.
This ad urges practical Christmas giving by choosing useful tools for machinist or carpenter husbands. It warns against wasteful, showy presents and claims the tools offered are fully warranted, encouraging buyers to act within three days to take advantage of the deal.
Hub ert Day in the steward s office Geo A Rose Cleveland clerk of the prison stables F Kaneen Lorain clerk in the deputy warden s office Dana 5 Walker Lorain clerk in the state shop H Walker Lorain clerk in the post office L P Obliger Wooster clerk in the hospital Arthur W Deibel and O M Burns sent from the northern Ohio United States court clerks in the steward s office and cigar shop respectively.
Engineer H. Brownell reports that electricity leakage from street railway systems is undermining the foundations of Pittsburg’s large skyscrapers. His 800 printed copies vanished after release, with public buildings officials reportedly concealing the findings to avert panic.
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