Saturday Sale at The Owl and Porto Rico Cigars
A Saturday sale advertises cigars and cigarettes with bulk pricing: General Arthur ten cent cigars four for 25 cents, The Owl five cent cigars seven for 25 cents, Porto Rico five cent cigars twenty five cents per deals, Mongul two boxes for 25c, Natural two boxes for 5c, Turkish Trophies eight boxes for 25c, Egyptian Arabs five for 25c, Omega six boxes for 25c. A Ladies' Gold Watch is given to the person guessing the nearest stop time, with a line about the man with twenty-one pockets and nothing in them.
Private sales and local notices in brief
Private sale columns offer household goods listings as easy transactions. A rent and damages suit between Henry Neipfoot and B Shuert settled in Justice Lord's court for 25 dollars from an original 100. Social entries note luncheon card party at West Second Street hosted by Mrs Thomas Folger and Mrs Chas Braman with prize winners listed. May Manton patterns available at D Lewis & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Neipfoot
Thomas Folger
Chas
Braman
West Second Street
F. S. Miller
Walter Davies
BE F Allen
D. J Nye
Chas Hancock
T. M. Brush
Local Pancake Mix Ad Mentions Brands and Flours
An archival clipping promotes breakfast goods including Fresh Saratoga Chips Neusthal and Phila Cream Creese and Strictly Pure Maple Syrup. It also touts All Kinds of Pancake Flour and Southard Whole Wheat Flour as fine options for morning meals.
Wehrie property sale and new marriage license report
The Wehrie property at Middle Bass was purchased by August Schmidt Jr of Sandusky for about 25000 dollars with plans for summer improvements. A marriage license was issued Thursday afternoon to Burt W Pitcher 30 Watertown NC and Nora Lansdale 24 Lorain. Justice C Lora performed the ceremony. Edward Bath turned 39 with a family party including John Bath and Mrs Giles Bath. Rawson daughter Ashley stays gravely ill with typhoid fever. The One Dozen Buchie club met at Mrs Charles Cahoon’s Sev enth street home. D W Seward won first prize and James B Seward second. an elaborate luncheon and elegant prizes followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Bazaar
B. C
Donnell
Burt W.pitcher
Watertown
N. C
Edward Bath
John Bath
Third Street
Giles Bath
Lake Avenue
Miss Rawson
Ashley Rawson
Sixth Street
Charles Ca
Striker Billing Blocked Over Faulty Fire Station Unit
At the Board of Public Safety meeting on Thursday afternoon the American Magnet company bill for 75 dollars for an automatic striker at the fire station was not approved because the device fails to operate properly. Payment will be withheld until the machine is repaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Safety
American Magnet Company
The Indian of To-Day and a Campfire Conversation
A Booklover's Magazine feature recalls Sioux views on Independence Day and Western fame. An old warrior questions the Fourth of July, and other chiefs compare cities like London and Paris. A Carlisle graduate among the campfire group recalls travels with Buffalo Bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booklovers
Plains
Great Britain
London
Paris
Archibald
Berlin
Famalea
Palla
Carlisle
Buffalo Bill
Queer Ways of Chinamen Education and learning honors
The Rev BD J Hardy notes that in China education is revered and a Sau Tast B A degree brings public placards, home ovations, and processions. Recipients wear square toe boots and red silk bands while being publicly thanked by civic authorities for bringing honor to parents, school, and birthplace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
J. Hardy
John Chinaman
Whims of the People in Underground Railways
An amusing tale shows how ticket deposit boxes at stations influenced passenger habits. A small box prompted one in ten tickets to be deposited, while a larger, more accessible box led to only one in a hundred tickets being dropped inside, as passengers grew careless with easier access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parla
Coffee Raising in Arabia and Russian Census Highlights
The article notes Mocha coffee is grown by Arabs with small plots near huts in mountainous Arabia, hindering large scale collection for caravans as traders head to distant Aden and Hodeda. It also cites the 1897 Russian census listing peasantry, city dwellers, nomads, Cossacks, nobles, clergy, merchants, and officials within the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabia
Aden
Hodeda
Empire
Electricity Awakens India in Southern Asia Power Grid
An Indian electrical awakening adds to Mysore hydro plants with new Bar Canal powered plants in the Punjab. Power will traverse seventy miles to Lahore and 100 miles to Amritsar where coal costs about five dollars a ton. cheap electric power is expected to spur industry. The piece notes ancient Theater of Dionysos with seating around 10 000 and Greek writers in their prime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Mysore
Asia
Punjab
Bar
Lahore
Amritsar
Dionysos
Christ
Hera
Freelands
Escheylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Nature Spares The Stricken Nowe From Grieg
Public notice-style ad explains hair loss caused by a germ in the hair follicle and promotes Newbro’s Herpicide as a remedy. It claims the product destroys the germ and allows natural growth. The advertisement lists The Herpicide Co. Detroit Michigan and agent HA. A. Dykeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grieg
Newbro
Stampa
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
HA. A. Dykeman
Death notices and resolutions from Elyria No. 3 K O T M
Resolutions honor late Sir Knight Naight Bd Boughton of Elyria Tent No. 3 K O T M with 30 day charter drape. Sympathy extended to his wife and family. Notices sent to family, records kept, and publication planned in local papers. An advertisement for Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar appears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria Tent No
Sir Naight
Classified Ads and Lost Bag Notice From Elyria
An assortment of classified items includes rates for advertisements, lost hand bag between Abbey Road and West Broad Street left at Wellert's Grocery dated 1-3-13, WANTED positions for cook and stenographer, job offers from Frank A. Smith & Bro, a FOR SALE ridge farm 668 acres near Elyria, and an ad for Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar praised as a safe cough remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbey Road
West Broad Street
Wellert’s Grocery
New Leader Agent Assures Cleveland Papers Delivery
Robert Ammon announces he has taken the agency for the Cleveland Leader and several other papers. He guarantees splendid delivery and invites readers not receiving their paper to call Bin's Book Store at Rawson 295.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Leader
Bin
Rawson
Robert Ammon
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Roach
Stau
Ious
Robinson and Hancock Company
Lorain County
Robinson the Big
Ill
Broad Strets
Elyria
Ohio
Hancock Co
Cleveland
General Arthur
Owl
Porto Rico
Mongul Cigarettes
Omega Cigarettes
Exchange
D. Lewis & Co
Saratoga
Neusthal and
Phila
Creese
Poor Jones
Furniture Emporium
C. EL. Wilkins
Ensign & Wilkins
Jack Reublin
Hill's
Broad St
Kennedy
Lorain County Building and Loan Company
Turner Black
P. O
Frank A. Smith & Bro
Addresa
the Biggs & Everard Co
South Lorain Op Aur Emay
Sheffield Land & Improvement CO
Bank Bidg. Lorain
C. Corner Tenth and
Pearl St
Sorosis
Kreith
America
Price
Broad Street
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