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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
2
The Daly Reporter offers weekly carrier delivery at 6 cents. The Daily Reporter costs $3.00 per year by carrier and $2.00 per year by mail outside Elyria. The Weekly Reporter is $1.00 per year by mail.
A damaged report chronicles a land grabbing scandal involving misuse of public lands. The offender, Mr Werte, received a one day jail term and a $300 fine after the recommendation of the U S District Attorney. The piece mentions political figures and broader accusations of corruption and impropriety in public land dealings.
Manage licenses were issued to CG B Gare 42 a farmer of Rochester and Nora OD Michell 30 of Rochester, florist Frank R Knowles 26 of LiGrange and Mae Wilcoy 23 of DaGrance. Health and body queries answered. cultural quotes and local ads accompany the notice.
A fashion sketch details a blouse or shirt waist pattern size bust 33 to 42 with long or elbow sleeves and a vest-like front. It describes materials like Madras lawn and pongee, lace trims, pearl buttons, and suggests variations using contrasting fabrics and lace appliqué for a chic yet simple look.
Describes a ladies vest with box plaits along the front and back, outward plaits from shoulders, a front vest attached beneath the plaits, and a flat collar finishing the neck. Sleeves reach elbow length with gulied bands hidden by seams. Material amounts given as 4 yards 21 84/27 or 2 yards 44 inches wide with 10 yards of lace. Pattern 5364 size range 32 to 40 inches bust.
A cluttered classified page lists rentals and sales including an elegant six-room suite on Washington Ter, a north-west corner house and lot at Lodi and Fuance Streets, and a two-houses-or-store option. Requests include a dining room girl, a Manat tun Restaurant waitress, a young man for Elliott's Restaurant, and a second-hand fireproof safe. Also ads for livestock, a Pope-Tribune runabout, a piano, a lake-side cottage for rent, and lost gold watch pins. Promotions for health tea and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve appear alongside.
Consul Griffiths reports on sanitary bag options for horses in England with prices for various styles. A Paris post office letter parade traces a chain of declined to accepted letters among Lamartine Musset and Hugo. Lundy Island’s history recalls pirates and a 13th century castle linked to Capt Kidd.
London water use shifts toward independent sourcing as an artesian well is tapped at 450 feet near Clements Inn, just off the Strand, after three months of boring. The move signals growing autonomy from established water suppliers among large local consumers.
Report of an athletic meeting in Canton China where pupils from schools solved sums on a blackboard during a race. Slates and pencils were used and those erring at the end were eliminated. The final three were declared winners.
Flowers show only two of the three colors red yellow blue. Roses mix red and yellow, never blue. Verbenas display red and blue, never yellow. Pansies combine yellow and blue, never red. The pattern maps color traits to species without all three present together.
An English paper cites insurance statistics showing that when the wife dies first the husband survives about nine years on average, and when the husband dies first the wife survives about eleven years. The item appears in the Boston Transcript humor column.
A soldier stationed at Constantine Algeria who stole three belts from comrades leaped from a 200 foot precipice to escape punishment. The incident ends in his death and highlights discipline issues within the garrison.
An old press quote remarks that people find it hard to be good, noting the frustration of preventing wrongdoing. The line reflects a blunt, cynical view attributed to a journalist or editor of the era.
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