Adjourning Board Faces Bids on Middle Avenue Paving
The Board of Public Berrice adjourned a Tuesday morning session after residents and attorney D J Nye objected to awarding the Middle avenue paving contract. They argued funds must be in the treasury before bids are received, while the city solicitor cites new legislation allowing bids once the law passes. The board adjourned to avoid possible litigation.
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Board of Public Berrice
Middle Avenue
Avenue
D. J. Nye
Nye
Dida
Correction on Ohio State U E convention timing
A letter to the Editor requests a newsroom correction about the recent Ohio State U E convention held at Athrop. The writer says the event will be moved to weekdays from Sunday to avoid pastors leaving their pulpits and denies any criticism of Young People's Sunday activities during the convention.
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Ohio State
Athrop
Ohio
Pfaff and Battin Grocers Make Voluntary Assignment
Made a voluntary assignment in favor of creditors by Pfaff and Battin doing business as Pfaff and Eattin grocers. A. E. Lawrence is assigned.
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W. P. Pfaff
A. M. Battin
Pfaff and Eattin
A. E. Law-rence
Paris Green Ends Ridgeville Elderly Man’s Life
Anson Owens aged eighty a Ridgeville Township resident committed suicide at his son Fred Owens home on Sunday night by taking Paris Green after retiring for the night. He cried out but died despite family efforts and medical aid. The crippled man suffered inflammatory rheumatism and had become despondent over ill health. A former boyhood friend had recently taken his own life. Owens was well known among older residents in the county.
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Anson Owens
Ridgeville Township
Fred Owens
Paris Green
Owens
Board Meeting Tonight at J Crisp’s Office
The board of directors of the new opera house will hold a meeting in J Crisp's office this evening.
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New Opera House
J. ©. Crisp
Fireworks Proclamation Observed as Elyria Sees Large Circus Crowd
The Elyria mayoral proclamation on fireworks saw limited use of dangerous devices and three arrests for violations. John Jones and John Rineman paid fines of five dollars and costs. James Kane, a Wallington boy, was arrested for a cartridge cane and released with a mayoral reprisal. The circus drew a very large, orderly attendance with every seat filled and many standing.
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Elyria
John Jones
John Rineman
James Kane
Wallington
Sity
Struck Car 48 on Lorain Street Railway Burned After Lightning
A Lorain street railway car number 48 was struck by lightning at 8 30 PM Monday. The car caught fire and burned to the frame. The motor man was stunned but recovered, with driving apparatus disabled. The car rolled downhill into the quarry awicd, about twenty five passengers aboard, none injured, traffic delayed about an hour.
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Lorain Street
Buckeyes Beat Liners In Doubleheader Scores Given
The Elyria Buckeyes defeated the Cleveland Liners in a Monday doubleheader. Morning 9 to 4 with Harwood Lersch pitching well, afternoon 7 to 5 with Eason on the mound. Liners' fielding and hitting noted in both games.
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Elyria Buckeyes
Cleveland
Harwood Lersch
Eason
R. OF. CG. Buckeyes
R. H. E. Buckeyer
Vagrancy and intoxication fines posted by Mayor Folger
Police Court sentences list five dollar fines for Mike Brazee and Herman Stahl for vagrancy, Edward Smith and John Mulsney for intoxication. Laborer Pater Karn on the Nickle Plate bridge in Lorain was discharged after arrest on vagrancy charges.
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Mike Brazee
Herman Stahl
Folger
Edward Smith
John Mulsney
Pater Karn
Nickle Plate Bridge
Lorain
Joe Cardano Injures Hand Releasing Firework
Joe Cardano, described as the fruit deaser, was injured celebrating the Fourth after discharging a sky rocket in his hand. He sustained very serious burns.
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Joe Cardano
Deaser
Barna
J A C Sweep Two Ball Games Versus South Amherst Elyria
The J A C s defeated South Amherst 15 to 16 at South Amherst and 6 to 1 at Elyria in two Saturday and Monday games.
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South Amherst
Elyria
Pardoned Cowboy Forged Escape in Fort Bar Zee Tale
In a frontier scene at Fort Bar Zee a cowboy named Kit escapes after taking a guard hostage and fending off pursuers. Constable Jimmy Riggs defies orders and is pardoned after confessing Kit was his father, ending with a dramatic pardon.
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Fort
MacSteele
Jimmy Riggs
Kit
Redeye Kit
Bar Zee
Pergeant
Kitwan
Luhens & Wildcat
Literary censor faces criticism over Paradise Lost license
A storm of abuse targets the English literary censor for denying a license to a play based on Milton's Paradise Lost, deemed scriptural by the censor. The piece mocks the critic and ends with a playful product plug for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. A. Dykeman
The First Quarrel and a Cozy Household Confession
In Chicago Daily News style a visitor recalls a couple's apparent harmony and later hints at underlying tensions. Mrs Wachilope deflects blame while the husband Henry calls himself calm amid sharp exchanges. The exchange ends with an admission of fault and a light rumor about a quarrel spreading.
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Mrs. Wachilope
Wachilope
Henry
Beatrice
Dell
Chicago Daily News
Bounded Charge at Balaklava
Banémsater Landfried, who died at Hove Bogland aged fifty eight, was a trumpeter with the seventeenth Lancers and sounded the charge at Balaklava.
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Balaklava
Banémsater
Hove
Bogland
Seventeenth Lancers
Earthquake Speeds Traveled From Caspian Port to Moscow
A recent quake at Shemakbe on the Caspian Sea sent seismic waves across 1,400 miles to Moscow. The crust vibrations moved at about forty tiles per minute.
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Atvers
Shemakbe
Caspian Sea
A Peasant Hero and the Cossack Deceivers
In a northern Russian village a peasant named Ivan Susanin helps twelve Polish soldiers reach the czar’s court at Yaroslavl by guiding them through treacherous forests. He feigns allegiance, leads them into a dead end, and sacrifices himself to save Russia, with the people of Susanin’s town praising his courage.
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Russia
Bia
Momcow
Michael Feedory Tch
House of Romanoff
Ouuset
Ivan Susanin
Sam
Aouth
Susanin
Poliah Issausina
Exe
Formavdon
Ruasla
Yaroslav
Busanin
Isader
Ivan
Susanna
Yaroslavl
God
Czar
Busanoin
N. S. Weekly
Wall Street Recounts Bygone Turbulence From Tennessee
An old Tennessee man speaks on Wall Street's upheaval. He describes bears trying to drag prices lower while bulls push back, and warns that when a trader stalls mid roadway a collapse follows. His blunt view frames market chaos as a simple struggle.
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Wall Street
Tennessee
Walt
Bears
Cleveland and Southwestern Electric Railway Plans Mobile Substation Car
The Cleveland and Southwestern Electric Railway proposes a new mobile substation car to replace the burned traveling substation at Beres. The on board plant will duplicate a stationary power station and can be moved to points along the line to handle emergencies, divisions with weak power, or extra demand. When jacked up from its wheels, the car is said to have minimal vibration compared with stationary substations.
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Cleveland and Southwestern Electric Railway
Beres
T In
Probate Court appoints trustees for missing minor boler
Probate Court Frederick Webster appoints trustees for Minute Boler an eight year old colored girl with about $100 in the Oberlin bank. She left Oberlin for Chicago about fifteen years ago and has not been heard of since. She is believed to be dead.
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Elon
Kit
Jimmy Riggs
Jimmy
Chicago
Caronivel
Frederick Webster
Minute Boler
Oberlin Bank
Oberlin
Allpfore
Child Struck by Bicycle Near Home of Mail Carrier
A young daughter of Rafe Holcombe was struck by a bicycle Friday at noon as she ran into the road before her home. The rider avoided the girl, but she struck pavement and suffered non serious injuries. Dr. Cushing attended.
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Rafe Holcombe
Acros
Elyria saloonkeepers freed after ten days by Judge Webber
Hennings and Kingsley refused to quit the saloon trade and were released last week after serving ten of a thirty day sentence. Judge Webber visited the jail and expressed regret they persisted but granted clemency, similar to Dr. B Porter who reportedly sold his establishment. No journal entry confirms if relief is suspension or commutation.
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Hennings
Kingsley
Elyria
Eame
B. Porter
Lorain
Four Fast Trains to Chicago and North Western Ry
Four daily high speed trains leave Chicago at 9 00 pm 6 90 B 10 08 pm and 8 08 am electric lighted throughout with flat schedules luxury equipment and dining car service. Tickets and sleeping car reservations from ticket agents or A F Cleveland 284 Superior Street Cleveland Ohio.
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Chicago
North-Western R'y
North Western Limited
A. F. Cleveland
Superior Street
Cleveland
Ohio
Destructive Fire Destroys Railcar Shed and Storehouse
A blaze on Lorein Street damaged a Railway Co car barn and a Sheffield Land Company storehouse early Monday. Loss is estimated around 1400 dollars, with contents including hay, a wagon, tools, and railroad equipment all destroyed. The origin is unknown and the fire was seen at about two o'clock.
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South Lorain
Lorein Street ‘Railway Co
Bearna
Los
Sheffield Land Company
Stari Ag
Comptrol
A Quiet Fourth at Toledo
Toledo observes a quiet Fourth of Italy with no fireworks as council bans explosives. After last year’s toy pistol accident deaths and numerous injuries, public sentiment supports the measure and enforcement prevents accidents or fires in Toledo.
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Toledo
Italy
Elyria Trolley Team Splits Doubleheader With Wooster Giants
Elyria defeats Wooster 8 to 4 in the morning game and loses 6 to 4 in the afternoon. The morning win came in a ninth inning surge after five hits and five runs. Follis and Lloyd teamed in the battery. Elyria turned a triple play in the second game. Attendance was about 700 in the morning and 1,500 in the afternoon.
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Elyria
Trolley League
Wooster Giants
Wooster
Giants
Follis
Lloyd
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Lorain Street Railway
Buckeyes
Harry H. Smith
Broad St
BY Roger Pocock
Northwest Mounted Police
Atay
Swey
Corpa
Che Vring
Constable Riggs
Emmeline
Wachi‘ope
Statia
Vastibule
Mire. Waehllope
Wandtlope
Mra Jankerson
David Efe
Germany
Dal Iles
Questation
Probate
Yellow Line
North Lorain Deestroyed
Bert A. Cox
Washington
Virginia
Harry H. Smith & Co
Cheapside
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