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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
2
The Elyria Daily Reporter announces subscription terms with annual outside-city rate of two dollars and monthly carrier service details. Editor L. B. Fauver and Associate Editor E. L. Disbeg provide publication information for readers outside Elyria.
The United States Steel Corporation reports that it has kept prices steady at a fair return level, reassuring trade and supporting confidence in the economy. Management argues restraint on price hikes benefits the steel industry and broad business prospects, with demand for 1902 expected to approach production limits.
The piece notes an 86 percent drop in cigarette consumption in the United States since 1897, led by New York and Durham factories, with New Orleans reporting slight increases. It contrasts the rise of the stogie and pipe with lingering use of plug or fine cut, and mentions Turkish and Egyptian cigarettes holding steady. It also mentions higher licenses for marriages in Kentucky and Chicago railway station changes for the Lake Shore line, including a new Thirty-First Street station.
Captain F P Cobham of Buffalo describes a duplex wireless block system with train attunements and rear car repeaters to warn engineers as trains pass over numbered tracks. The Ohio topographic survey section notes state funding and mapping progress, detailing atlas sheets and scale, plus a printer mishap anecdote and local housing ads.
A correspondent reports results from careful timing experiments showing the grayhound is the fastest of four footed animals. At full gallop it covers 20 yards per second, about one mile in a minute and twenty eight seconds, nearing the pace of a carrier pigeon.
Fremont public schools closed as precaution against smallpox. Rooms to be fumigated and disinfected. Children urged to be vaccinated. Two houses quarantined, several sick. Town awaits developments. Schools expected to reopen Monday February 8 if no new cases appear.
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