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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
2
The post office reports record holiday receipts from December 22 to 30 totaling 1327 dollars. Regular staff now handle the load, with monthly receipts at 2984.45 dollars, up from last year, and a busy money order business driven by increased foreign customers sending orders abroad.
The Marshall Chapter No 47 BR. A. A. installed its officers last evening January 4 1906 at the Masonic Hall. Thomas Howell acted as Grand High Priest and R R Stetson as Grand Marshal. Names listed include C H Lougtr, E H Pi GC By Flower, H W Ingersoll Scribe, Thomas Shearer C of H, J George P 3 J, Thomas Rees R A C, A Beebe M of 8rd, V H D Biggs M of 2nd V, J C Bins M of 1st V, A B Taylor Treas, George H Mapes See’s Lyndon Guard.
Elyria theatre presents a new two and a half hour musical comedy next Saturday evening. The twenty member company features Wm. McRobie and Harry E. Mack with new lines, jokes, costumes, and effects. Prices range 34, 35, 30 and 74 cents. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea touted as beauty aid. George Kiessling of Tiffin, 24, is killed when he falls from a Baltimore and Ohio express Monday morning.
A Dykeman druggist of Broadtrest promotes Hindipo the Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic with a strong guarantee. He offers to refund the purchase if it fails to give entire satisfaction. A 60 cent box is mailed under a positive guarantee.
Fragmented ad style notice describes a patent for a germicide called Dendrus Garin used to kill a disease in dogs. It claims removal of the germ restores healthy growth and mentions a sample offer from The Herpicida Ca in Detroit with a special agent. Includes dubious instructions and a price request in stamps.
Winter markets glow with fur sales as Indiana hunters ship muskrats and other pelts to St Paul and Milwaukee. In Iowa, Jefferson trader Frank J Heller sold 1400 muskrats since November, a record for a single trapper, while wolves raised near Des Moines county fetch three to seven dollars each.
A Country Life in America piece notes the Christmas tree trade as a gamble with variable markets and weather risks. Shippers hedge by selecting quality trees, costing from two to five cents per tree on the farm, with bundles selling around 60 cents for five trees. Big profits come from carefully chosen stock and high priced singles, giants reaching up to 26 dollars, while one operator may haul five carloads for targeted sales or ten to twenty carloads in a rolling market.
The article notes lighter woods for bowling balls such as sappacite from Cuba and rosewood, mahogany, and lignum vitae. It explains finger hole variations from no holes to two or all-finger slots, mentions rubber coverings on balls and pins, and describes a solid hard rubber ball claimed to be durable and true. Prices cited include four dollars for lignum vitae and thirty-two dollars for the solid rubber ball.
The notice proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only known cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 to any case not cured, urging readers to request testimonials and buy from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio, with Hall's Family Pills recommended for constipation.
In Cleveland at Lakeside hospital, a two inch straw was found to have perforated Spafford Olcott's intestines near the appendix, explaining four days of pain. Surgeons suspect ingestion with breakfast foods. Olcott recovers fully after the straw is removed and the puncture sewn.
City canvasses show as few as one baby in 121 homes in Rittenhouse Square and similar luxury districts with minimal births among residents. Across Walnut Street and five leading hotels only scarce newborns appear. Total city births so far this year are 26,282 versus 32,137 for all of 1904.
St John of Ames Indiana owns a five dollar bill dated July 2 1770 issued by Rhode Island for five percent interest and signed by John Arnold. Discovered by C St John 125 years after it was given to his mother the bill now valued around $2660. He plans to seek redemption from Rhode Island authorities in Washington.
Mrs. E F Holcomb found a stone while dressing a chicken that jewellers later valued as a diamond. C P Kendall claims he lost the diamond near the Holcomb place four years ago and seeks its recovery in a Justice court in Sterling County Texas.
Mrs Minnie King filed for divorce from Albert King on neglect grounds saying they married at Ashtabula on February 16 1881 and lived together until about three years ago when he left without cause. They have no minor children.
Vocal teacher Ralph Everett Sapp from Cleveland has moved his Elyria studio and may be at the home of Miss Fanny Olmstead, organist, 233 Third Street, Friday afternoon and evenings. William F. Steinbrink of New Castle, 46, was found dead in bed of heart disease.
Alfred Fisher, twenty two, a farmer, was murdered near Cedar Mills Adams County Monday night. Believed by authorities to have been beat to death by Gney and Delbert Hayslip after a New Year’s church celebration. Jacob A Ris, a noted author and sociologist, will lecture on the Author’s Course next Monday at 8 pm in Elyria. Tickets on sale at Murbach’s Jewelry Store January 8 with prices 35 cents general and 30 cents reserved. Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar advertised as a remedy for coughs colds and croup with immediate relief for children.
An advertising claim states that a reasonable amount of food digested and assimilated increases strength. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure allegedly digests food, aids assimilation, relieves Sour Stomach Belching Heart Burn and indigestion, and is palatable and strengthening. Available from druggists.
The Prohibitionist mayor of Bat Liverpool, W. A. Weaver, retires and is succeeded by ex-Senator W. Blake, Republican. The item mixes political note with promotional claims for DeWitt's Little Marty Risera and cathartic remedies, asserting health benefits and urging purchase through druggists.
Advertisement from Addram G. Reporter Office seeking a female stenographer with experience. Also rental notice for five rooms and bath on the Sweet Block with steam heat available.
Wants copies of the Reporter dated November 10 13 and 29 from 1903 04 or similar era. The Reporter Company Elyria Ohio lost black pocket book containing valuable papers and money. Finder will be rewarded by leaving at Eady's Drug Store top address.
An appeal invites young men to join a new year club to be formed at the hotel this Thursday evening January 4. Call between 4 and 9 o clock to ask for Mr. Cannon.
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