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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
5
County commissioners voted 500 for Humane Society use at the quarterly session. June 17 is the last day for Penny Photos. notices list local names and estate matters including Edward Boughton appointing Edith Boughton executrix. A Dilworths auction and a Lorain circus are announced, with local notices about wills and auctions.
Thorogood of his, is on the man agues commutes. Miss Alice Cutty attended the Guilt man-Reldeo wedding at Amherst on Wednesday. A week from Saturday the Wlytia baseball team Wil play at Loran against the team of that place. The contrnet for the mason work... the cement building to be put up in the corner of West River street and Willard avenue, for Mr. John Kolopos has been awardd toG A San Girone. The other contracts have not yet been let. Architect B. W Camp bell is looking after the working WM. Andress... was out today He is recovering his health slowly Yi Gaemp fea cosy Ok the will of Liquia CG. Avil, of Catsor county, wee tied at ue probate cente this noring Vaited States District Court,... In the matter of John Wo Williams, Bankrupt. Notice is hereby given that on the 6th day of June, 1906, the said John W. Williams was duly adjudicated bankrupt, that the first meeting of Ins creditors will be held at the office of the undersigned referee in Elyria, Ohio, on the 18th day of June, 1906, at 10 o'clock a.m., at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as May properly come before the said meeting. 6-8-1 L B FAUYER, Referee Elyria, O., June 7, 1906.
The Lakeside steamship starts its Lorain to Cedar Point and Sandusky excursions on Sunday June 10 at 9 30 A M. The Lorain City Band will accompany the trip with Erie breezes and music. Cedar Point has been remodeled at great cost and remains a top Great Lakes resort. Fare is six ty cents. Captain C A Bemis handles details.
The Kansas City Journal notes Osage gambling on a fixed five card game with stacks of bets reaching hundreds. Vanity Fair cites a London writer proposing spirits move furniture, including a familiar spirit to reposition a piano or chest of drawers on demand.
The piece critiques England’s caste system and flunkeyism while noting travel chaos in Dodge City Kansas. It cites a traveler asking a railway officer for a train’s arrival time, receiving “In about six minutes” and pondering if that meant central or neat time, illustrating time zone confusions.
Three dozen Central African monkeys travel to Chicago to be studied by professors. Researchers hope the primates will be coaxed into speech through patient care, gradually revealing the rudiments of monkey talk in written form.
The American Society of Civil Engineers admits Nora Stanton Blatch, granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as the first woman member of the society. She reportedly received a high engineering offer from the Chinese government. A separate note mentions the Mid-Surrey Golf Club banning Sunday bridge whist as it interfered with golf, not for religious reasons.
Thousands of young men enlist and meet twice weekly for drill as volunteer militias take shape across regions in China.
The report claims eighty six percent of Peru's population are negroes half-breeds Indians and Asiatics. It notes parchment for panjos comes from wolf skin and mentions jailbirds eager to oust the nest in a proverb-like line.
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