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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1907
Page
4
A compact meditation on aging and the passing of years noting gifts like age sorrow and disappointment, and richer remains such as friendship virtue patience faith and love. The prose reflects on inevitable change and enduring personal treasures beyond time.
The Jamaica quake report notes a fresh major event in Kingston and broader island impact. It reflects on global seismic history from San Francisco to Valparaiso, warns of urban vulnerability, and considers whether even great cities like New York face future danger.
Life's Little Pleasantries includes humorous quips about prophecy and prosperity, with an anecdote of a witness in an asylum case arguing that declaring oneself Santa Claus proves insanity. The humor centers on misunderstood phrases, local color, and witty exchanges.
A jumble of quips and vignettes from a bygone issue. Notes on spring weather and earthquakes mingle with a Boston dance rejection and a humorous school exam answer about urinary ignorance. An auto show crowd and a stray remark about Uncle Sam staffing also appear, blending casual chatter and topical curiosities.
The text lists several small businesses in a street scene including the Reporter Jones smoke house LaGrons and Barker's B Drug Store on Mill and Lodi streets. It references Marion's club aiming to scour a new factory each year and notes a New York clergyman claiming music can rescue men from drink. Wisconsin recently inaugurated its governor without the customary ball. Dr Parkhurst cites men in New York who would match the twelve apostles, and a Judas comparison would not be surprising.
Sailors claim a Navy goat named Buckeye was cured of paint induced dyspepsia by exposure to ammonia in red paint. The tale recounts the goat sneezing for hours after the dose and becoming the only healthy, fat mascot aboard, though the method is unsafe and unverified.
An uptown New York man declined to wear an overcoat for health reasons and sent his coat to his wife's brother in Connecticut. A letter and package from New England led him to reconsider his stance as neighbors deemed him frugal to a fault. He then bought two overcoats.
Darwin recounts a West Australian magistrate's servant urged to kill for his dead wife's sake. Threatened with life in prison, he lingered a year in sorrow, then vanished, later returning in good health after presumably spearing a woman to satisfy the spirit. No legal case followed.
A penniless, unshaven wanderer imagines life among New York’s Broadway elite. He longs for money and a position at a grand building, laments hunger from Ohio, and schemes to enlist Aleck McDermitt to place him on Broadway, while contemplating Cousin Lydia and the allure of high life.
Postmasters in Ohio reported to federal authorities an appeal labeled from Bishop Leonard claiming his forged signature on a prayer allowed by mail. The message asks recipients to recite the prayer and send it to nine others, promising luck in business if followed, with a forged signature attaching the bishop’s name.
Samuel Smith, a farmer near Alburtis Pennsylvania, found a colony had taken over a boot in his barn during a snow storm. When he retrieved the boot the bees attacked, stinging him and leaving him with wounds treated with lotions, sidelining him from work.
Wellington January 19 roads here are almost impassable and rural mail carriers have abandoned their wagons. They travel on foot with two men on each route as one man cannot cover 20 miles in a day.
In Pittsburgh a scheduled finish between Harry Johnston and Jock Phen ecie was halted in the twenty third round by Rev F J Scott of Woodville Presbyterian. He drove out a county detective McMillen to Heidelberg where a mill was in progress. Reporter want ads bring results.
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