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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1907
Page
4
The La Follette bill to regulate railroad workers hours passes the senate. It bars more than 16 consecutive hours on duty for crews moving interstate or foreign freight or passengers, and requires at least 10 hours off after a 16 hour shift. Violations carry fines from 100 to 1000 dollars, with enforcement assigned to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
A long disputed arrangement between the United States and San Domingo concerns revenues and governance. Creditors accept a new bond issue at 100 cents on the dollar to replace existing holdings, halving the nominal debt with an issue of 17,000,008 dollars.
A collage of humorous vignettes and jokes touching politics, literature, and daily life. It includes quips about Governor Warner, Lord Busted, and King Edward, plus a ribbing tale about road speed and a policeman. The piece blends cross cultural humor and social commentary of the time.
A garbled text fragment notes a book agent, a want ad reaching a potential buyer, and a remark about not hearing a song on Sunday. It mentions saloon men surrendering on longer hours, and a sheremometer (likely spectator) reacting strongly. Hazy references to Oak Point appear.
Readable fragments describe an upcoming announcement and a stage play titled The Rocks Road to Dublin. Notes mention impassable roads in Elyria and a burglary near Lorain, with local officials and weary travelers cited as context.
John D Rockefeller arrived in Augusta on Sunday traveling as an ordinary passenger in a Pullman car and attended religious services at a Negro church, drawing local comment in the conservative Southern city on January 1.
The pope was presented with a golden book crafted from Brazilian gold and encrusted with diamonds to honor his holiness for appointing the first South American cardinal. The volume features emerald monograms, Brazilian arms, papal insignia, and a map of Brazil with gem markers for its states, including a large eight carat blue diamond for Rio de Janeiro.
The New York board of coroners reports 1996 saw 3890 deaths in its area with 2160 by violence. Manhattan accounts for 68 tunnel-work deaths and 549 felonious assaults. Car and train fatalities include 97 surface cars, 14 elevateds, 17 tunnel trains, and 24 autos. Alcoholism caused 115 deaths among the total. Blind piano tuner Town Falls inventor Charles Abbott, who has been blind all his life, shows a heat regulator for incubators designed to alarm at incorrect temperatures.
In West Chester Pennsylvania a number of residents suffer stomach trouble and seek asand cure from Mississippi sand packed in bags. They take a spoonful doses during attacks claiming animals seek clay or sand for relief and so should people.
A red haired girl recounts how she spent her entire hundred dollars saved for gifts on lavish items for herself rather than others. She explains purchases from Smith & Smith Jones Brown & Green and notes the joy of new belongings, the plan to hide the truth from Jack, and that she will move after Christmas ends.
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a man who did well at punching cows yet became restrained when he was somewhat tight and attempted to punch a ball, illustrating a humorous incident about his own misadventure.
Ches ter Gillette, sentenced to die in Auburn Prison on Jan. 28, has filed a motion to appeal. Attorneys claim jurors were prejudiced after reports that the National Guard had been called out to prevent a lynching if the verdict was not guilty. Gillette, a former Oberlin student, denies guilt in the murder of Grace Brown and disposal of her body in Big Moose Lake.
In San Francisco on January 21 the strap hangers league with slogan No seat no pay wears red buttons. The group clashed with street car crews as sympathizers back them, often winning as conductors largely stopped collecting fares from badge wearers who hang to the outside of the car.
Miss Helen Hale Cogowell, famed musical comedy star, born in Elyria, will headline the first tryout of The Yankee Tourist in her hometown. Raymond Hitchcock leads the cast, with Wallace Irwin lyrics and Alfred B. Robyn music. Opening date is February 1.
Paris Jan 21 The case of Ellett F Shepard of New York grandson of the late William H Vanderbilt was settled. Damages paid after a pardon term reduced to six weeks imprisonment and a special exemption from deportation carried with the release.
Severe wind storm hits Norwalk blowing down a dozen large trees and high tension wires. Telegraph and telephone lines were torn, several farm buildings were toppled, leaving Lake Shore Electric traffic at a standstill for hours.
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