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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
4
Large stock and grain farm about 170 acres offered for sale by Geo Garford of Elyria Ohio. Proximity details: 210 Harrigan Street. Landlord seeks good renting property in Elyria as part payment. Additional note mentions a profitable investment opportunity.
Construction of a grand passenger hub in Chicago progresses with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Through trains now use Grand Central Station at Fifth Avenue and Harrison Street, and a new Thirty-First Street station will host all Lake Shore through trains except No. 82. Also mentions a political notice and various medical advertisements.
Reprint praising the illustrated monthly The Chicago 400 a travel and topics journal received courtesy from Chicago and North-Western Railway. It lauds the tinted bell tones fine letter press and California scenery and offers free copy on application or by mailing two cents postage to A F Cleveland Cleveland Ohio.
The Wisconsin Central Ry will offer greatly reduced tiered tickets from Chicago to Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and British Columbia from March 1 until April 30 1902. For details inquire at nearest ticket agent or contact T D Campbell 918 Pike Building Cincinnati O or D Jas Pond Genl Passenger Agent Milwaukee Wis.
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway offers excursion tickets from February 3 to 9 to New Orleans Mobile and Pensacola at low rates. Return travel good until February 15 with Mardi Gras viewing and southern coast resorts. Details from ticket agents AL or A J Smith G P Cleveland Ohio.
Senator Mazon met with the postmaster general to seek an order ending rural delivery discrimination. Carriers now depart and return by opposite routes. the plan would start at one end of a route one day and reverse the next to equalize delivery times. Postmaster General Payne is considering issuing the order soon.
Final census figures reveal 6159 establishments focused on flowers and ornamental plants. They cultivate 42647 acres, with 34693 acres improved, and invest 50619868 in land and buildings. Equipment is valued at 1367037, and product value at 18387420. Expenditures reach 318298 for fertilizer and 4125799 for labor, with over half in the north Atlantic division.
A narrator recalls the most remarkable Adirondack snowstorms seen under cloudless skies. Snow-laden clouds drift from distant hills and drift across the valley at 1800 feet, driven by strong winds. Trees vanish in the flurries while sunlit hilltops cast clear shadows and a raging cold storm grips a nearby valley below.
Inventors Jo hann Krasopil of 214 Roscoe Boulevard and &. P. Levy of 210 Belmont Avenue Chicago have received a patent from Washington and will manufacture a shoe polishing device. The simple boxlike frame holds rotary brushes to polish toe and heel and sliding brushes apply polish to the sides. A crank powers a wheel and a short chain links to the mechanism. The operator inserts the shoe, turns the crank to remove dirt, applies blacking, then repeats to produce a polished shoe.
Berlin dispatch says Prince Henry will bring a bronze cannon captured from the French as a gift from the Kaiser to the Central Union of German American veterans who fought 1866 to 1870. The cannon goes to Philadelphia where a speech may accompany its presentation. the prince will travel in civilian dress in the United States. The imperial yacht Hohenzollern will be repainted upon arrival in New York.
The Carnegie College of Rogers Ohio offers two free scholarships to Lorain County students. One covers on campus tuition for a course, the other covers a correspondence course. Courses include Normal Academic and Business with mail teaching. Applicants should write Carnegie College Rogers Ohio.
An elderly Washington resident remembers the past when fire engines flooded the basin to freeze a skating pond on the river. Tickets sold for ten cents to watch the firemen release water and flood the ice, drawing crowds to a lively, inclusive skating scene once common along the white lot pond.
Two New Jersey punters clash in a tale of unequal skill. One bags many birds while the other fails, a game warden interrupts during the closed season, and a stranger notes the birds will cost ten dollars each. The tale ends with a moral about the value of game.
A New York Sun report notes women rarely drive business vehicles in the lower city, with only two women seen driving wagons and one regular business wagon driven by a woman. The piece contrasts women’s entry into other occupations with continued male dominance in driving tasks.
The unknown heirs of Charies Leveghen and the unknown beirg of Ignpe Churgh, both late of Krysta and Bidgevile, are notified that on February 4, 1902, Stetson, administrator of Neary A. Waite's estate, filed a motion in the Lorain County Court Continen Pietà seeking to subject described premises in Ridgeville and Center townships to a mortgage. The prayer asks that the estate’s title be quieted and the heirs be bound by a sale to satisfy liens, with references to prior deeds and dates including December 25, 1830, and judgments in 1902. Defendants must answer by April 1902. attorney is J. B. Fauver.
During a long illness a reader reports bed sores improved after using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and calls it the best salve on the market. Also promoted are personally conducted tourist excursions from Chicago to San Francisco and Los Angeles via the Great Rock Island route with daily sleeper service and scenic Rockies to Sierra Nevada daylight passages. Literature and information available from F. Miller, T. P. A., 409 Rialto Bldg., Chicago Tl. 10-12.
The Nickle Plate Road will sell Homeseekers Excursion tickets to all points in the west, northwest and southwest on February 4 and 18. Liberal return limits. Inquire at nearest ticket agent or O A Asterlin FP A F Wayne Ind No16w3.
Daily weekday service at 125 pm runs sleeping and dining cars from Cleveland to Jacksonville and St Augustine with no changes. Tickets available at Collyer’s, 116 Euclid Avenue.
Daily timetable from a historical paper lists electric streetcar routes including Main Line, Lower Junes, Canal Dover and Philadelphia line. It notes daily service with exceptions on Sundays, and mentions connections to Belair, Wheeling, and Cleveland. The fragment names Carfel and Pa lines with times such as 12 00 and 4 20, indicating frequent city transit details.
The Cleveland Elyria and Western Railway runs hourly services from Public Square Cleveland to Elyria Oberlin Wellington and Lorain with frequent connections and late night trains. Extra cars on weekends and extra morning Elyria service described. J A Wilcox G P A 614 Garfield Bldg Cleveland Ohio listed for details.
One hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio promotes the cure as systemic and says the remedy works through the blood and mucous surfaces. West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin wholesale druggists endorse the firm and testify to Cheney's honesty. Hall's Family Pills are the heat.
A news blurb warns that children are especially prone to burns, bruises, and cuts and urges DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as an effective remedy. It claims the salve draws out pain and heals wounds, cautions against counterfeits, and cites a testimonial from James Mock of Webster, Indiana, and a note from H. J. Eady about eczema.
A. Z. Tillotson announces candidacy for the nomination to the office of probate judge, contingent on the decision of the upcoming Republican county convention. He invites friends across the county to support his bid.
A patient in Marcus Hook Pa reports using Brazilian Balm to cure pleurisy after doctors failed to give relief. The remedy allegedly provided almost instant comfort and warmth, ending persistent pains.
An old advertisement fragment touts DeWitt’s Early Risers as a pure vegetable laxative. It promises a gentle, certain bowel movement without forcing the bowels, using phrases like small and easy to act and Serenathen.
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