Suburban Lot Offer Prompts Community Interest
A fragmented notice invites residents to a suburban land offer with no purchase required. It signals opportunity and urges readers to join others to claim lots in the area.
02 Jul 1904
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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1904
Page
1
A fragmented notice invites residents to a suburban land offer with no purchase required. It signals opportunity and urges readers to join others to claim lots in the area.
An Elyria optician Dr Herrmann staged a mock suicide by drinking a beverage at Yearmillion after a bitter divorce dispute with his wife. He collapsed but revived after mustard and pepper were applied. he was jailed briefly, fined, and ordered to leave town amid a jeering crowd.
In Akron on Friday Judge A R Webber dismissed the divorce suit of Erin Wood against Fred Wood. Mrs Wood confronted the judge and warned if she died that night he would be to blame. This marked her fourth divorce action against her husband amid a tense scene.
A LaGrange bride obtained a warrant for her husband’s arrest after he left her days after their May marriage. She tracked him to Cleveland, appealed to the police prosecutor, and obtained a frontier-style warrant for neglecting their two children. Meanwhile a Ridgeville man reported a missing sorrel horse with a white stripe.
A small daughter of Rafe Holcombe, a local maal carrier, was struck by a bicycle Friday at noon as she ran toward the street from her home. She struck her head on a payment. Dr. Cusinpg pronounced injuries not serious. The cyclist acted to avoid her and assisted after the incident.
At Anti-Saloon League headquarters in Columbus a test case will seek to resolve whether Beal law dry status blocks Brannock district elections. Ohio Protective League argues municipalities voting wet under Beal cannot run district elections, while the league plans to file petitions to test Brannock. If courts favor majority Beal outcomes, they aim to push Beal elections in major cities and overturn Brannock aims.
The Garforo-Elvris team in the trolley league was defeated by Wooster 5 to 3 on Friday afternoon. Elyria’s fielding errors proved costly though Wooster played well. batteries were Pierce and Follis for Elyria, Lake and Ford for Wooster.
Akron judge A R B Webber fines Art Simmes two hundred dollars and orders three months in Canton workhouse for assault and battery on a girl in Barberton saloon. Webber questions Simmes past as potter saloon keeper and boxer and condemns prize fighting and saloon trade. Simmes vows to quit while an agent takes charge of his cafe as contract ends. Simmes once Ohio featherweight champion aimed at national title.
The acting postmaster general adopts a nationwide scale for mail separation allowances. An annual $36 allowance applies where daily average separated pieces fall 34 to 66, with $12 added per 33 additional pieces up to 600, and a further $812 for each 50 piece increment above 601.
P L Idleman 28 clerk of Marion wed Grace G Gott 27 cashier of Wollington in a recently issued marriage license notice.
The Steamer Lakeside operates weekly Lorain departures to Cedar Point for a July 3 round trip. It leaves Lorain at 9 a.m. and returns from Cedar Point at 4 p.m. The return fare is fifty cents. A moonlight trip after the Lakeside return costs twenty five cents. Music will accompany both journeys.
Local members of the bar attend the twenty-fifth annual Ohio State Bar Association meeting at the Hotel Victory in Put-in-Bay from July 6 to 8. The program covers leading issues of the day and includes a discussion of a constitutional amendment on taxation of tangible property. The proposal would tax tangible property at real value and exempt 200 from taxation, plus bonds of state and local governments.
The mayor increased the penalty in a police court session on Saturday, doubling the fine on Richard Pearce of Oberlin to $20 for indulgence in spirits. Fireworks at Smith Brothers.
Ely residents remember Rev H H Bawden who led the Baptist church from 1866 to 1874. Tomorrow morning his son Rev Samuel Bawden preaches in the old pulpit then departs for India to undertake Foreign Mission work, his address outlining the mission.
Burt Lanndon aided a drayman outside a shop on Friday when his left hand was caught and his third and fourth fingers were broken.
A question of constitutionality is raised over a county surveyor salary law passed by the recent legislature. Attorney General Ellis will sue to test the law. Common pleas judges would fix each county surveyor’s salary, and the validity of this delegation of power is in doubt.
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