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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1906
Page
2
The document lists subscription prices for The Daily Reporter and The Weekly Reporter. Rates show weekly carrier delivery and yearly mail options, with figures including 83.00 and 200 dollars, though some numbers appear garbled.
A. L. Garford hinted at merging Elyria and Cleveland plants, alarming locals yet offering growth. Elyria could gain by 1500000 dollars in new factory investment and 1500 jobs, with housing, land, and sewer upgrades. citizens urged city to meet the challenge and keep the works in Elyria.
Miss Irene Peltz of Elyria is near death from tuberculosis. The young woman has endured about three years of illness, entered a Cleveland tuberculosis sanitarium over a year ago, returned to Elyria briefly last summer, and has remained at the sanitarium since September. Her many friends are deeply distressed by her condition.
Harry Rex of Canton deposits $1,000 with Citizens Savings Bank, Lorain in December 1904 with the promise it would be paid on demand. No deposit receipt or evidence exists. After bank assigned to Fancher in 1905, Fancher rejected Rex's claim. Rex filed a petition seeking judgment against the bank for $1,000 plus interest.
A city resident told the Reporter that moving Mr. Garford’s Cleveland auto works to Elyria and merging it with the local branch could spur a syndicate to build houses for the extra mechanics who would need residence here. He says labor would come if suitable homes were provided.
Manager Dykeman of the Elyria theater, returning from New York, states that Sarah Bernhardt can be secured if the Elyria audience supports the higher prices required. Bookings already made will be announced later.
Pittsburg parties secured leases on 6000 acres in Huron county near New London to drill oil and gas wells. Leases cover 20 to 400 acre tracts for two to twenty years, with drilling planned on the land in the vicinity.
A photographer, F. C. Wells, touring the state to sell penny photos at one cent each and 50 cent a dozen photos offered elsewhere for three dollars. Wells, with Cleveland gallery experience, plans to open a studio in a smaller town after traveling. Also advertised Witch Hazel Salve from RC DeWitt & Co for sores burns and piles.
Hair naturally grows when healthy. Dandruff blamed on a germ. only remedy to kill the germ. Newbro's Herpicide claimed to destroy the dandruff cause, harmless and grease free. Sold by druggists. sample offer in stamps from The Herpicide Co. Detroit. H A Dykeman listed as Special Agent.
Andrew Auten of Oberlin urged Elyria to post street names at corners and intersections so visitors can orient themselves without wandering the city or asking directions. He spoke during a Chamber of Commerce gathering on Friday evening.
Ten thousand dollars in stock has been subscribed toward the fifty thousand dollar issue for the new theatre at Penfield avenue and Modisette street. Lorain Amos Steck, agent, secured interest in Pittsburg to invest twenty six thousand dollars if local subscribers match. A meeting of subscribers will form a permanent organization next week to advance the project under Charles Davis's management.
A reader, W R Comings, asks the Reporter to correct a report on the Chamber of Commerce meeting. He says the board supports kindergartens but notes the town must build more schoolhouses before expanding kindergarten services. He requests publication of the correction.
The Elyria High School Senior class took a trolley trip to Carl Bennett’s home at stop 92 on the Oberlin line. The group, about twenty five students, spent the evening in games and music with light refreshments before returning home early.
The Schmidt family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness at the time of the death of our son and brother Edward Schmidt Elisabeth Schmidt and family express gratitude for support and sympathy during this loss.
MASONIC Marshal Chapter No.47 F.A.M. will hold a stated Convocation Wednesday evening February 7 with work in the Royal Arch Degree. Elyria Commandery No.60 E. T. will hold a stated conclave Thursday February 8 opening at 7 30 P M. Also a health quack ad urging cleansing and natural purging with Tes Take Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents plus tea or tablets by H A Dykeman.
F S Miller of 128% Charles Court was fatally struck by a light engine in the Lake Shore yards on the West Side east of the B and O crossing. He walked the track and was cut in two. Dr. French may hold an inquiry unless evidence shows pure accident. Dean witnessed the event and aided in rescue before the Rimbach & Friday ambulance took the body to the morgue.
A cognovit in the common pleas granted judgment by confession for F. W. Fancher against Stang and Little for 349 dollars at seven percent. Chevalier Lodge No 316 Knights of Pythias adopted memorial resolutions for Edward H. Boughton and draped their charter thirty days. Darius Beardsley, seventy two, pioneer of Nelson township Portage County, died of heart failure at home on Parkman Road. A two year old child of Anton Bauer of Sharon Pennsylvania died from burns sustained in a natural gas explosion.
A tense exchange shows a father disowning his son and threatening punishment with a shilling, while the son apologizes and asks for the money. The ad copy then shifts to a medicinal pitch for Witch Hazel Salve by BB C DeWitt & Co, warning against counterfeit versions and urging purchase from reputable druggists.
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