Local Briefs from Lorain and Nearby Areas
Highlights include Ada Maxted returning from Cleveland visit, Miss Frederica Phinney of Lorain visiting Elyria, and W A Young taking a job with Lake Shore railway. Fire damages Goldstein grocery in Lorain for 2500, Harvey Gougler named assistant city solicitor, Rev Geo B Rogers to preach at South Lorain M E, Miss Fannie Root named Lorain librarian, Yippecanoe Club to host McKinley Day banquet seeking Gov Hughes as speaker, Lorain drains tracks of Cleveland and South Western traction line, Rev Wor A Ellio appointed pastor at Second Congregational South Lorain. city officials and residents noted in multiple short items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yippecanoe Club
Cleveland
Gov. Hughes
New York
Wor A. Ellio
Rock Falls, Tr
Second Congregational Church
South Lorain
Friends honor JC F Noyle parents at gathering
Wednesday evening friends held a pleasant gathering in honor of Mr. and Mrs. JC F Noyle. They enjoyed games and social time. Mr and Mrs C F Noyle, visiting their son W A Noyle, depart for Wyandotte Mich, then Moore Town Canada, staying two weeks. A cobbling shop opens at 3 Shear Street offering first class work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Brooks
Erie, Pa
George Elliott
Lodi Street
Florence Gove
Cincinnati
College of Music
M. L. Gove
Cheapside
W. A. Noyle
Quincy Street
JC. F. Noyle
C. F. Noyle
Tor, Wyandotte, Mich
Mooretown
Canada
Shear Street
D. B. Wayland
Lake Avenue
Woman falls into pig pen breaks collar bone in Green farm accident
Mrs Sher Bondy of the Mottinger farm north of Green, Ohio, broke a collar bone and dislocated a shoulder after a 15 foot fall into a pen of small pigs on Saturday afternoon. She was unconscious briefly, escaped through a small opening when doors wouldn’t open, and was aided by neighbor Mr Valentine until a doctor arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Sherbondy
Mottinger
Esses
Akron
Bald Mountain District Goes Idle as Mines Close
Deadwood reports all mines and four Deadwood mills shut today after 16 years of operations in Bald Mountain. Mines to fill with water as operators and unions refuse concessions. The strike's onset is met with rejoicing in Terry as miners parade with cheers.
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Deadwood
Bald Mountain
Black Hills
Terry
County Auditor Reports December Financials and Balance
The county auditor's December report shows a November 30 balance of 265 32.74 dollars in the county treasury. December receipts totaled 569 008.01 with disbursements of 111 801.95, leaving a December 31 balance of 667 808.15 dollars. Tax books close February 7 for a special tax statement.
Elyria Reports Health in 1906 With Few Infections
The 1906 Elyria health record shows only 31 infectious disease cases reported to Health Officer French. Of these, 10 were diphtheria, eight scarlet fever, and 15 typhoid, indicating a relatively healthy year for the city.
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Elyria
French
Horse Plunges Into Street Hole Delays Workmen
A horse fell into a mire on Fast River Street near Sugar Ridge Road Friday morning after a trench sank and exposed a water main. Street Commissioner Wel ders and several men spent a couple of hours freeing the animal. The incident reveals how improvised trench work creates hazards and delays.
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Fast River Street
Sugar Ridge Road
Welders
Paints in bleak air Anna Boberg’s polar studio risks life
Stockholm reports Anna Boberg, famed for Arctic snow scenes, paints on a rock studio on Furoen Island in the Arctic Ocean. She braves blizzards and slips from cliffs, often barefoot to steady footing, sleeping in native huts and subsisting on codfish, sea gulls’ eggs, and coffee. Her art career began 14 years ago on Lapland trips with her architect husband.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Furoen
Arctic Ocean
Anna Boberg
Lapland
Lofoden Islands
Boberg
North Land
Sleeping sickness fatal in equatorial Africa report
Berlin professor Robert Koch reports sleeping sickness hits prime age adults and towns become women and children only. He notes arsenic preparations comparable to quinine for treatment and details the glossina palpalis insect’s role and 990 patients treated at Sese islands as population drops from 30 000 to 12 000. An underground lake is found in Akron Ohio during Lake Erie & Pittsburgh line construction with an 18 foot crust and 13 feet water depth.
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Berlin
Robert Koch
Berlin Medical Society
Equatorial Africa
Imperial Ministry of the Interior
Villazes
Sese Islands
Victoria Nyanza
Koch
Akron
Hudson Township
Lake Erie
Pittsburg
Lorain
Dawson's Big Gold Output in 50 Miles of Dawson
The 1906 gold output from mines within fifty miles of Dawson totals 5,697,942 dollars based on a 16 dollar ore value. Since 1896 the camp has yielded 112,786,572 dollars. The Guggenheims of New York have acquired many Klondike mines, and dredgers and hydraulic apparatus promise greatly increased returns next year.
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Dawson
Seattle
Orice
Guggenheims
New York
Klondike
Atest
Town to be submerged by federal dam project
Denver reports Marquette Wyoming old town and valley farms eight miles west will be submerged under 75 feet of water as a $5 million irrigation dam is built on the Shoshone river. Deeds are being completed, with full project completion in about 36 days. The massive works will flood half a million acres in the Crow reservation area and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Marquette
Wyoming
Marquétte
Crow Reservation
Corbett
Garland
Frannie
Panna diamonds of central India seen as promising for deep mining
A Geological Survey of India report discusses the Panna diamond fields in central India as historically a diamond cradle and potential profitable site for systematic mining. It notes older methods only scratched surface and lacks reach to richer strata, suggesting conglomerates across several areas could host valuable deposits if shafts are sunk under proper control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Geological Survey of India
Panna
India
Fit Saves the Professor
Professor Herbert G. Lord of Columbia credits a quick intervention for saving his life when a distraught man from Brooklyn burst into his lecture and attempted to talk of a social problem. The man collapsed, was treated by a doctor, and declared insane at Bellevue hospital.
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New York
Herbert G. Lord
Columbia
Lfe
Robert Good
Brooklyn
Dr. Lord
Lake George bed sinks near Hague in Warren county
A geological disturbance near Hague at the north end of Lake George has caused a 1000 square foot area of lake bottom to sink. The shallow point, once three to four feet deep, now lies over 35 feet deep. A coal barge aground on a reef was moved by the current, prompting investigation. No other lake areas are reported affected. The event occurred near the American Graphite company mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glens Falls
S. C
Hague
Warren County
Lake George
American Graphite Company
Strozzi Palace in Florence Sold for 1.2 Million
The Strozzi palace, a premier Florentine palatial example begun in 1489, has been sold to a manufacturer for $1,200,000. The historic building represents the height of Renaissance palace design.
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Florence
Saloon quit at Lorain as tax hits profits
Lorain liquor business ends for R Lovering and John Radman after licenses canceled through brewery rep as state tax burden drives many county saloons to fold. Norfolk reports North Carolina to aid the Confederate dead land purchase at Johnson's Island where Civil War prisoners died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Lovering
John Radman
Lorain
Norfolk
North Carolioi
Oho Daughters of the Confederacy
Johnson‘s Island
Electrogen claimed cure for blood and nerve troubles
Answers to correspondents note limits of advice while advertising Electrogen a blood and nerve remedy. The Fremont Ohio company promotes a homeopathic antiseptic gas product and offers a fifty cent bottle free with a request for name and address to obtain information and booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrogen Company
Fremont, O
Electragen
Electrogen Co
Fremont
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Ad
It promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the natural food of the human body with life producing elements, touting its uniqueness in medicine. The ad cites Tea or Tab selling for 35 cents and is signed A. B. Frost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
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Ada Maxted
W. A. Young
Butternut Ridge
Lake Shore Railway
Frederica Phinney
Ellis’ Hall
Goldstein
Harvey Gougler
Geo. B. Rogers
Baldwin University
South Lorain M. EB
Margate
Wright
Todas
Mr.c Fanver
Conneaut
Mrs. Twiss
The
Q Old Ladies
Mrs Shepard
la Porte
Partners of
Hagmas
Miss Squire
Geaver
Oberlin
Grace Jackson
West Avenue
Procentor McMahon
Cuyahoga County
Big Four
Erie Railroads
Poole
Berea
M. E
Fannie Root
Miss Chapman
Orville Root
Cleveland & Southwestern Traction
Poor Jones
Dakoto
Professor Koch
Wyo
Diamonds
Central
Robinson & Hancoger
Perry D Spicer
Perry
Spicer
la Grange
Sarah E. Spicer
Victor
Conry & Mueller
the Popular Grocers
Broad St
Bell
Raewton
Smith Bros
Burden
Max
Hart
West Broad St
Syria, O
A. G. Spalding & Brothers
Donahue
Club
Elyvia
Weaver Black
East Second Street
PAX & West
Mian
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