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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1906
Page
3
Plans outline a new hospital wing at Lorain connected to St Joseph Sisters project. The design extends from the current building toward Kent Street with brick stone front and wooden facade. A separate brick boiler wing will be added at the rear to improve safety and modernization.
A chaotic bank notice describes a second dividend at Citizens Bank with references to officers, deposits, and withdrawals. The fragmentary text notes money handling, over the counter transactions, and local bank activity across city stations, hinting at broader financial movements.
The article notes a defunct bank faces a second dividend payment. Figures released indicate around $80,000 will be needed to cover all outstanding checks. Bank officials warn of continuing shortages.
Joseph Plato, the Amherst boy badly burned on the Fourth of July while playing with matches, was taken from St. Joseph's Hospital in Lorain to his home on Monday. His condition improved enough for the trip and a trained nurse accompanied him to Amherst to continue care.
Mrs Katherhm Aschenbach of Black River township, now at Massillon hospital for the insane, asks a guardian be appointed for her mother. Her husband, a wealthy Black River farmer, left an estate valued at $10 000. Two months ago the mother was adjudged insane on her children's petition and sent to Massillon for confinement.
Funeral services for Charles W. Johnston were held Sunday at the Johnston residence on East Avenue with many county residents and the county’s leading legal fraternity in attendance. Floral offerings signified the esteem for Mr Johnston, whose remains were laid to Elyria Cemetery with only intimate friends present.
Rev H. Patterson of Indianapolis spoke twice Sunday in the Church of Christ, praising Oklahoma and proposing an emblem for the new state. His design shows a circle with a Native American chief and a white man, parable grass, and symbols, with the motto Out of the wigwam into the Union.
Classified ad items include two derricks with 20 ft box gin and 6 ft arm, lifting capacity 500, rope and pulleys included. Also offers a light Toomy Pheaton and a light single harness. R. D. Perry lists 350 Third Street. Also two rental notices for Clayton and Third Street modern six room suites. Enquiries to Mt Stans, 284 Washington Avenue.
Lists shop prices for produce and groceries from lettuce to lambs. Includes per pound, per head, per peck, per quart and per gallon figures for items such as lettuce tomatoes cucumbers onions beans sugar flour butter cheese meat and poultry with many entries stated in cents or small sums. The list reflects a comprehensive early 20th century grocery price catalog for a local grocer J A Reublin and related grocery goods.
A detailed six page timetable lists the Lake Shore Electric routes between Cleveland Elyria and beach parks with west and east bound departures from numerous stations including Lorain Dover Rocky River Beara Park and Sandusky. It covers daily schedules effective June 25 1906 with times for lakeside and limited services including Vermilion Norwalk and Sandusky connections and ticket purchase reminders.
A local drugstore promotes a guaranteed Pile Cure that stops itching. The ad promises external or internal use and notes a pile pipe for internal application with every package. It guarantees satisfaction and offers mail delivery for fifty cents if the store cannot be visited in person. O Bowers, Druggist.
A historic timetable lists assorted passenger and accommodation trains serving routes to Norwalk, Sandusky, Toledo, Boston, Buffalo, and Chicago. It includes No 38, No 20, No 40, No 32, No 48, No 60, and several express and accommodation services with daily, morning, and afternoon departures. Names cited include J. Smith, L. P. LAXTINE, and G. Pla T. A Take, acting agents.
J. Wilson, G. P. and Be. H. Buswell, Agt. publish a dense schedule showing hourly and every twenty minute departures from Public Square Cleveland to Elyria Oberlin Lorain Amherst Grafton Norwalk and other towns with special limiteds and weekend times, noting multiple erroneous marks and typos.
A set of political notices from Elyria announces candidates for Lorain County offices including sheriff infirmary director county commissioner coroner and other posts. Each declaration states submission to the Republican County Convention decision with names such as Ward Hance Eason Hillier and Dr French among those seeking nomination. Also listed are irregular travel rates from B&O and a Sunday departure from Elyria at 6 45 a m with fares to Uhrichsville and Wheeling.
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