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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1906
Page
2
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An open letter by A L Garford declines to run while endorsing Hon George H B Chamberlain as the ideal congressman for Lorain County and the district. The piece argues Chamberlain’s legal background, experience, and trustworthiness, plus regional benefits, and urges Republican voters to back him at the convention. The column also notes Miss Gora Giles visiting Mrs Arthur Giles in LaPorte.
General Wheeler, famed Confederate cavalry officer, is remembered in the North and South as a true American patriot. He embraced service under the U S flag in Spain American War, showing loyalty beyond old enmities. The piece also discusses steady advertising and its long term value, urging consistent, planned campaigns over dramatic bursts.
Competent judges and beauty doctors attest to Newbro's Herpicide in letters from Portland specialists Bertha A. Trullinger and Grace Dodge. They claim the product stops hair loss and dandruff and serves as an effective dresser. Reviews accompany sample request details from The Herpicide Co in Detroit.
Reports from leading U S railroad companies show prosperity last fiscal year with reduced passenger accidents. Baltimore and Ohio lists 4024.71 miles of track 1703 locomotives 78357 cars 60731 employees paid 30845926 dollars. Train mileage about 36 million passengers 15 million freight 47 million tons. Passenger revenue 13 million freight 50 million dividends 8 million surplus 5 million. Total killed 356 and injured 2075. last year 515 killed 2284. Labor unions seek higher pay and shorter hours. Erie branch requests yardmen hours cut. B and O boiler makers strike against piece work. Readings raises sub-track wages and enforces nine hour roadway day.
Dr George D Nicholas will examine applicants for the United States Marine Corps inviting young men of clean character and good physique to introduce themselves at the Second street office The majority of recruits train at Mare Island or San Francisco and many proceed to the Philippines.
Lorain hosts a major Knights of Pythias celebration this evening to dedicate the new hall in the block erected by Mr. Wilkens. Eminent speakers will attend from afar, with dancing and a general good time planned into the night. Most Elyria Knights will travel to Lorain for the event.
Bryan C January 26 report of the committee reviewing the commissioners annual tally finds no bridge graft in Williams county. It notes bridge construction prices were reasonable and that unusually high bridge expenditures occurred last year due to two years of heavy floods.
George E Crisp recounts his youth in Avon where poverty and family illness kept him from school. He recalls being expelled by teacher Hd Burrell after a month, then later meeting Burrell again as a county commissioner and crediting him with teaching him to argue in a ditch hearing.
Lima Ohio January 26 The Buckeye Editorial Association with weekly publishers across the state held a midwinter session. They criticized railways for refusing to front advertising contracts and pledged to press for a two cent passenger rate.
W G Sharp of the city tends a Japanese genko tree in front of his residence on Washington Avenue. The tree is medium sized with broad horizontal lower branches, tapering into a neat cone, and it sheds leaves early in autumn, often becoming bare in a single night.
Columbus January 26 Ohio women who signed the record petition to exclude Reed Smoot from the U S Senate receive a message from Mrs Frederick Schoff chair of the National League of Women's Organizations. She says prospects for Smoot's exclusion look good and a million women have signed.
The Lorain and Elyria railway clerks will meet Saturday to reform their union after disbanding last June. They aim to form a local branch of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks with Cleveland President Wilbur Braggins to speak, plus others expected to attend.
The Nickel Plate railroad settled all claims by Italians represented by Dr. Nicola Cerri as administrator in probate court over the Kishman wreck last August. The settlements avert Judge Hadden’s ruling on whether damages are assets under Ohio law, with some claims as high as 2000 dollars. Had the administrator removal occurred, $50,000 suits might have been dismissed, and the question had not been previously decided in Ohio. Also promoting DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles and sores.
Landlord Bacon recalls a Lorain winter similar to this one at Oberlin's New Park house. He says March ice was rare then and snow and wind varied, but the first Thursday of December brought warm south winds matching current conditions.
Proceedings to restrain the constable from acting continued in court. The Hilliards refused to say if liquor was sold on Sundays when questioned. Defence witnesses testified that a plane dealer named Rawson drank at the Allen house bar on a Sunday. The reporter's note ended as the case was ongoing.
Mr W F McMyler, former proprietor of the Andwar Hotel destroyed by fire, remains in town and says no arrangement exists yet for him to run the new hotel. A meeting with the hotel company is expected this evening or tomorrow to decide his role. EB Nichola of Amherst was in the city Thursday.
Charlie Lord conducted two marriage ceremonies on Thursday. The first couple were John A. Munn, 23, a Rutherford Ont. bartender, and Violet May Fradde, 22, of Lorain. The second couple, a covgie, was also married by Lord in the same day.
A grand army camp fire tonight at the G A R hall is hosted by the Queensland Veterans Association. Pomeroy's Orchestra will perform with guests from nearby towns, drawing over sixty Oberlin attendees and recalling old fashioned veteran gatherings from years past.
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