Elyria Man Weds Deaf Bride at Sandusky Court House
Newton C. Beatty a 47 year old Elyria man and Katie C. Fey of Vergilion aged 36 were married in Sandusky courthouse by Dr. Charles H. Stroud using Lutheran rites. Both have been deaf and dumb since infancy and plan to reside in Elyria after a brief Erie county honeymoon.
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Newton C. Beatty
Elyria
Katie C. Fey
Vergilion
Sandusky
Charles HE. Stroud
Beatty
Erie County
Walsh 16 10 Be Investigated
Chicago January 4 John R Walsh former president of the Chicago National bank will be investigated by a special federal grand jury. The panel began its work today and may reveal how Walsh rose from poverty to capitalist status as banker newspaper owner and railroad president before the bank failed and creditors suffered. The inquiry could expose connections between Walsh's banks and his railroads.
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Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Walsh
National Bank
Car jumps the track at Grafton on tram line
A Cleveland and South Western traction car jumped the track near Grafton at 12 20 Friday. The car was badly damaged but no one was injured though two ladies and four boys, the only passengers, were shaken. The front end ploughed into the ground at the rail edge. The crash occurred near the same spot where a similar derailment happened weeks earlier and narrowly avoided a large tree.
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Cleveland & Southwestern Traction
Grafton
Masons Plan New Club With Billiards on Sixth Floor
A movement among younger Masons seeks to form a club. They plan to furnish several sixth floor rooms of the pew temple with billiard and pool tables and reading facilities.
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Masonic Order
Pew Temple
Cleveland official linked to Three-for Company stock guarantee
Randolph Clift, Lorain Steel representative, testified in Cleveland on a low fare controversy. He claimed Mayor Tom L Johnson guaranteed all stock for the Three-for Company project, a point opposition seeks to prove Johnson supported the venture.
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Randolph ‘Clift
Cleveland
Lorain Steel Company
Tom L. Johnson
Clift
Johnson
Elyria Deaths 1906 Count 145 With Suicide 22
Health Officer French reports Elyria totaled 145 deaths in 1906 74 males 71 females. Suicide totaled 22 (16 men 6 women). Heart disease 17 deaths, pneumonia 13, consumption 9. Other causes include typhoid 7 diphtheria 1 cancer 8 apoplexy 4 Brights disease 4 infant deaths 4 and old age 14.
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Elyria
French
Wooster People Get Money Back
Cleveland January 4 The 1200 Wooster residents who raised 15500 to secure a glass factory for the town won a court victory. Judge Beacom overruled a demurrer in a suit by J S Kinney and Albert Dix against J F C R A Pocock and J G Herring to recover the amount of the bonus. The mass of Wooster supporters from Massillon and Wooster say the factory should have been operated beyond a year and kept for the town.
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Cleveland
Wooster
Beacom
Kinney
Albert Dix
J. F
Rural delivery routes handle over thirty thousand pieces
Postmaster Bath releases a three month rural delivery report showing Route 1 handling 31 025 pieces Route 2 32 952 pieces and Route 3 30 832 pieces The post office also processed 1 353 special delivery letters in the past six months Acting on requests and doing things promptly is urged by the note in the report
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Bath
Art Simms Prepares for Second Six-Round Bout in Philadelphia
Art Simms trains in Canton for a rematch with Maurice Sayres set before Broadway A. G. in Philadelphia in about three weeks. Sayres previously stopped Simms in five rounds after Simms failed to pace himself. Sayres has beaten Kid Herman Young Erne and other famed fighters, boosting his strong lightweight reputation. Simms aims to win and bets he will stop Sayres inside six rounds, having earlier defeated Frazer at Danbury.
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Art Simms
Canton
Maurice Sayres
Broadway A. G
Philadelphia
Simms
Sayres
Akron
Sayvres
Frazer
Danbury
Peculiar Lorain County License Granted to Orphaned Texas Man
Judge Hinman approved a license for Joseph D Jerrett, a young man from Texas who revealed he does not know his parents names. He said his parents died in infancy and he was raised by strangers. The case enters Lorain county records as highly unusual.
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Hinman
Texas
Lorain County
Joseph D Jerrett
Jerrett
Foraker Tilt on Negro Troops Inquiry Postponed
Senator Foraker’s resolution calling for a Senate inquiry into the discharge of the 13th infantry’s Negro troops was postponed to next Monday. Senator Culberson condemned Brownsville tensions, alleging a soldier assaulted a citizen’s wife on August 4 and that arrests were not made, sparking local outrage.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Foraker
Foraker
13Th Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Cuberson
Culberson
Coffee Recipe, Reddington and Other Odds and Ends
A collection of light snippets recalls Maj. E. D. Reddington as paymaster for the Kansas Pacific in the 1860s, a Wallace visit with coffee jokes at a railroad boardinghouse, a racing anecdote from Chicago Daily News, Delicacy of Frenchmen, a Harpers Weekly vignette about Rebecka and a whiskers joke, and quips from public life and college circles.
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Kansas
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Maj. E. D., Reddington
Roosevelt bears capture Boston girls with new fad
A Boston trend sees college and young women embracing stuffed Roosevelt woolly bears as amusing toys. From 16 to 20 year olds hosting bear parties to decorate sports team colors, the bears entertain at homes, schools, and resorts. Sales clerks note widespread adult use and many purchases for personal amusement rather than children. A husband notes the bears’ carefree nature compared to dogs.
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Boston
Eye Transplant Gives Blind Man Near Normal Vision
New York to Vienna report notes Dr Zirm presented a cornea transplant from an 11 year old boy to a man blinded in both eyes. One eye failed due to thickening, but the other regained near normal sight and could read small print. The restored cornea remained transparent with a slight veil.
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New York
Vienna
Medical Society
Zirm
Aplmala
Moose Antlers and Maine Traditions of the Moose
Bangor reports on Maine moose antlers with tales of early antler trade to New York, the Blanchard family’s antler fence atop a stone wall, and the seasonal shedding pattern. It notes antlers drop December 15 to January 1, deterioration from moisture and borers, and that thousands shed yearly vanish by summer.
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Bangor
Maine
Moosehead Lake
Charles Anance
Ball Breed
New York
Cy Blanchard
Cyrus Blanchard
Cobb
Piscataquis County
Blanchard
Auto Helps Build a Church in Medford
Boston architect Lewis A Dow used a ten horsepower automobile to hoist heavy loads for a Methodist Episcopal church project in Medford. After rigging a tackle, the car raised 1500 pound shale loads and 1850 pound stone ornaments to 65 feet, with three men guiding placement. The auto also gave rides to a group in the evenings.
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Boston
Lewis A. Dow
Dow
Medford
Trained Nurse Urges Vinol Cod Liver Oil Aid
A Boston nurse, Elizabeth M. Cremond, testifies Vinol boosted her nine years of hospital care, reversing prostration, insomnia, and digestive woes after overwork. She says Vinol restores strength, blood, and tissue, and recommends it for patients needing nourishment, noting its sale in Elyria at Eads's Drug Store with a local agency network.
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Elyria
Vinci
Elizabeth M. Cremond
Boston
Mass
Heir to Congo Free State Proclaimed Prince Albert
Prince Albert nephew of King Leopold is proclaimed heir apparent to the Congo Free State. The announcement ends Belgian press debate on whether the Congo will be annexed. Albert, 30, liberal and well travelled, has studied modern kingship and spent time in the United States including St Paul and Jim Hill’s private car.
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Brussels
Belgium
Prince Albert
Leopold
Congo Free State
Free State
Hohenzollern
Countess of
Flanders
Willem
United States
West
St.Paul
James J. Hill
Northwest
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea marketing snippet
A brief ad notes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as essential natural food for the body and claims its life enhancing properties. It mentions tea or tablets priced at five cents by A. E. Frost and comments that annual sweat offs will cause dull days in local cigar shops as smokers try the product.
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Hollister
A. E. Frost
When Women Get Sick and the Electrogen Claim
An advertisement argues women suffer more pain and should avoid alcohol, promoting Electro-gen non alcoholic germicide and antiseptic as a health boon. It claims to tone the system, purify blood, and serve as a local antiseptic, selling bottles at fifty cents and one dollar with a free fifty cent bottle offer by mail.
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Mep
Electro-gen
Electro-gen Co
Fremont
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