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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1904
Page
4
The Brooklyn Eagle reports on evening gown girdles in gold and jeweled fabrics designed with artistic skill. Features include helio trop satin belts eight inches wide, pearl trim, lace figures, purple stones, lace tabs with embroidered pansies, and ornate neck arrangements with pearls and rhinestones.
An essay contrasts the old slow Sunday with modern bustle aided by trolley routes and leisure pursuits. It recalls Pilgrim austerity, long sermons, penny dropping on collection plates, and the restful Sunday routine, before segueing into playful notes and two quick magazine snippets including a recipe and a quip about violet-scented ashes.
A clergyman questions sexton Jim Graves about a ghost in the parish yard. Graves recounts a humorous spectral visit in which a friendly, talking phantom mocks fear, discusses death and coal gas, and hints at a prankish plan before fading away. The piece ends with the minister dismissing Graves as fabricating tales.
Fragmentary notes reference train number schedules for Lorain and Elyria with evening service details. No clear events or dates are readable from the snippet.
A Spencer Alabama man, Geo. 4 Thomson, endorses Kadol Dyspepsia Cure after ten years of indigestion. He states it relieved his symptoms after trying doctors locally, in Chicago, and even in Norway, urging all sufferers to use it. Sold by H. A. Dykeman.
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