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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1906
Page
4
Practical apron design for girls aged 8 to 14 highlights gingham and taffeta options. Features front and back sections, back closure, neck collar, two patch pockets, and full sleeves. Sizes 8 to 14 years. fabric needs vary by width with specific yardages and trim details.
Elyria chemist H A Dykeman markets Hindipo a new kidney cure and nerve tonic with a positive guarantee. The tonic is drawing town attention as residents try it free of charge if no benefits are shown.
Fritz Borchart a 54 year old grave digger at St Matthews cemetery in St Louis is held at the city hospital as his neighbors report a developing insanity from his work. He claims to hear voices from unseen spirits and has spoken of conversing with the dead. He believes a sacrilegious word he used requires seven days of silence as penance.
A collage of ads and notes featuring Mother Grays Australian Leaf remedy call to women with a free sample offer. Mentions of Holleter’s Rocky Mountain Tea, Kedol Dyspepsia Cure, and local druggists, plus a brief note on Ohio snow path enthusiasts and a 1906 Grand Circuit plan in Kentucky.
The Boston Globe argues privilege corrupts politics and business as power corrupts. It warns that wealth and status foster arrogance and injustice, blinding the privileged to the needs of the unprivileged and eroding moral restraint.
Governor Edwin Warfield of Maryland, the thirteenth to hold the Annapolis office, jokes about the unlucky number. He was elected by 13,000 votes, has 13 letters in his name, and was inaugurated January 13, 1904, with no sign of fear in his career.
A Sunday audience at a local acto address was startled when a Utile girl, overhearing her parents discuss punishment, spoke up with Please, they don't use it now, prompting a notable pause as the curate hinted at the lower regions without further escalation.
The article recalls the old practice of appointing a public hangman who swore on the Bible to execute condemned criminals without mercy. After taking the oath, the official was dismissed with the blunt command Get thee hence, wretch.
Manchuria grows millet Indian corn and wheat with apples grapes and abundant tomatoes. Asparagus thrives and veggies flourish. A social toast turns tragic when a couple at Konigwald Germany celebrate their diamond anniversary the wife succumbs to syncope and dies at the table within ten minutes the husband follows.
A banter in the Philadelphia Public Ledger captures a couple debating marriage. Jene asserts she is engaged to Weil, while Tezs-So questions the vow with a light exchange about unlikely suitors.
In an interview with Paris Matin, M. Duliot, engineer for M. Lehaudy, stated a balloon could endure 200 rifle bullets through silk with only slight loss of ascent. He added its mobility minimizes chances of disablement, and even severe puncture would leave aeronauts able to reach friendly territory before collapse.
A Canadian farmer rigged a light framework nailed to a cow’s nose to block entry to corn fields. The device, strapped muzzle fashion, catches on barbs when cows press fences and has been widely copied in the region with many cattle seen wearing the gear and even birds perched on them.
In a reflective note from the Detroit Free Press a speaker contrasts grand images of bravery and martyrdom with the small daily duties that test resolve. The piece argues genuine virtue lies in performing unglamorous tasks even when they feel burdensome, lest one’s noble sentiments fade.
An American visiting England is shown a church with many buried beneath the floor. The guide notes the inscription while the American quips that the graves are similar to those at home and asks for a more interesting preacher.
The oyster grows from a pinhead size in two weeks to a split pen at three months and reaches market size after four years. Lifespan ranges from id to 15 years. A naturalist notes these bivalves feed on the tiniest marine life, including minute organisms.
Right Idea Dr Thwing president of Western Reserve University attended a recent New York horse show with a fellow educator. A friend remarked the event seemed more a dress exhibition than equine excellence, calling it a clothesline rather than a horse rein.
The fragment reports that 1149 Europeans take their own lives annually with 11,00 per year in Germany. It notes German self harmers have risen in a decade and compares to deaths in the Franco-Prussian war, suggesting Germany faced about triple the earlier toll.
A wood fragment found during foundation digging at a New York City building site is said to come from a tree that stood where Manhattan lies before the glacial period in North America. A Cambridge student prank led to a fence owner dousing a protesting student with hot tar in a humorous incident.
Confederate pensions in Texas will total $900,000 for veterans in fiscal years 1906 and 1907. An additional $154,528 is allotted for support of the Confederate home.
Nell a cross bred Leeds terrier from England died after remarkable feats in pest control. She reportedly killed 50 rats in 20 minutes and 170 in one night, highlighting her exceptional hunting record and legacy in terrier lore.
The empress of Germany favors orchids over other flowers, showing a passion for their many shapes and varieties, including Rossea varieties, as noted in a period description of royal horticulture.
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