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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
2
The Elyria Reporter lists subscription options and rates. Carrier delivery costs 33 0 per month while daily mail rates are 300 per year. Includes editor names L B Fauver and E L Disbho and mentions term details.
The text surveys 1901 as a year of global business expansion led by the United States with the formation of the United States Steel Corporation, the Asphalt Trust collapse, and major Wall Street moves in Northern Pacific and Amalgamated Copper. It notes royal and presidential losses, Roosevelt’s guidance, Hay-Pauncefote treaty progress, and Cuban constitutional developments, while mentioning the Panama ideal and ongoing geopolitical tensions in China and South Africa.
A Toledo advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle and Hall's Family Pills, with testimonials. It also notes A Z Tillotson seeking Republican county convention support to run for probate judge. The notice highlights endorsements from West Troax Walding Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists, and J Cheney & Co. as proprietors.
The Medina Gazette declares Republicans face a choice between backing the Kurtz McKisson faction and loyalty to McKinley Hanna leadership. It argues Kurtz allies attack Senator Hanna and must be opposed by Medina’s GOP as the party consolidates against traitors and Cleveland faction influence.
Local items report visitors from Chicago and Norwalk, a Whist club gathering, and upcoming shows at the opera house and apen house. Lorado Taft lecturing at First Congregational church, plus notes on Oberlin’s New Year’s gift and a Texas Steer play at the apen house.
Christmas gatherings and visits mark the week in Grafton with families from Carlisle and Lorain. Notables include Mrs Broughton and Mrs Underhill hosting. Mr Cahill recovering from a prior accident. and several locals visiting LaGrange and Cleveland. IL O T M held elections naming Nethe Hill as L committee and Hattie Showalter as Lt com with a line of officers led by Lucy Clark and Laurie Kelley, among others.
A notice announces liberal free transport between Elyria and Oberlin for local students seeking a fine business education. It promotes a no-cost opportunity and notes many youths will go to Oberlin. Also includes a lost dog ad describing a medium sized black and brown house dog named Praoy. Reward offered. Finder should contact A G Shde at 52 Columbus Street.
Mercury in catarrh ointments risks destroying smell and deranging the system. Hall’s Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Also notices marketing Hall’s pills, a Curtis Webster estate sale in Elyria, and other ad snippets about Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and Liver-Lax remedies with local contact details.
An old classifieds fragment lists Eady's Cream Lotion and several ads. Wages for a competent houseworker are four dollars and fifty cents weekly with good references. Address inquiries to H A Deemer in Penfield Avenue or N care Reporter office. Also mentions DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve praised for bed sores and piles, with cautions about counterfeits and a vegetable laxative product.
Railway timetable shows Elyria to Grafton service every ninety minutes starting 6 30 a m and return trips from Grafton to Elyria every ninety minutes starting 6 a m Last Elyria to Grafton car departs 2 15 p m with Grafton return at 10 45 p m Theater runs nightly after Elyria opera show with cars running post entertainment Tickets available at the C BH W Ry ticket office in Elyria.
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