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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
3
H. A. Dykeman of Elyria promotes Hindipo a Kidney Cure and Nerve Tonic with a positive guarantee and a one cent trial offer. Also advertised are lower B. and O. home seeker rates from Elyria to major eastern cities with ticket agents listed. Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Tar marketed as a cough syrup that purges gold from the system, sold by druggists.
A Washington letter reports House members anxious to end the session with night sessions and quick passage of key bills including railroad rate and statehood. It notes packing house probe fallout, a switch to vegetable meals among some lawmakers, and a rare airship sight near the Capitol. It also covers White House renovations funded at 118000 dollars, Taft’s Jamestown monument site search, and a health notice on deafness cures.
Joe Lorain County Souvenir Edition published by Mrs. O E Monroe is on sale at Monroe's studio. It features over 4000 children pictures and $1600 worth of half tone views, plus a county growth history. Priced 75 cents, it aims for wide sale in the county. Also includes a 1905 Lake Shore Electric Railway timetable with routes from Elyria to Beach Park and Cleveland.
Foreign press notes several anecdotes about the German crown prince as a child. One tale recalls a conversation where the boy told his father that he would tell the people what to do alone, adding that the father would enjoy it. The report ends noting the kal aera reply is not recorded.
The article recounts Carthage founded about 900 years before Christ by Dido and Tytians. It notes its early monarchy transforming into a republic with suffetes as annual magistrates. It mentions a cruel religion with human sacrifices.
The little Roman church of Conques in the Aveyron mountains housed a treasure shown in 1900. Enamels reliquaries and gold and silver statues valued at 32 million francs attracted a bid from a syndicate of art dealers, but the sale did not go through, saving France.
Native Chinese and foreign missionary scholars in Shanghai work on three Bible translations to appeal to all classes of the awakening celestial empire. One version aims at high classical style, another at low colloquial, and a third at mandarin colloquial speech spoken by about three fourths of the people.
On June 23 the Lake Shore Railroad will sell excursion tickets to Niagara Falls and return for a three day trip. Train departs Elyria at 8 05 a m. Round trip rate is 3 55. See agents or hand bills for details. 6 14 6¢
The city reports a sharp rise in horse meat consumption in Neuremberg. Utilities at the Borsa municipal abattoir are exhausted, prompting the council to study building a new horse abattoir estimated at 43000 dollars.
An excavated Pompeii henge named The House of the Gilded Cupids will welcome visitors. The walls feature glass discs enameled in gold and fine miniatures of cupids, rivaling the beauty of the House of the Vetti.
Victor Margueritte named new president of the Societe des Gena de Lettres, son of Gen Margueritte. The literary duo Paul and Victor Margueritte remains a Parisian topic, rivaling the fame of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt.
In a Vaunton England speech the Bishop of Bath and Wells argued leisure class sin in Sunday pleasure while a hardworking person with no recreation options did no wrong. Higher Walton of the Darwin division, Lancashire, boasted 420 votes from 425, with five missing voters scattered as one in America one in Canada one at sea and two sick in bed.
London notices describe a rising need for a fresh ailment slang mocks appendicitis as fashionable with many recovering without surgery under doctor Sir Frederick Treves. The piece reflects public health fears and medical debates of the era.
London reports a fourth edition copy of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress selling for one hundred pounds to a rare books collector. A 14 year old boy who fell from a gallery in an English music hall was uninjured and apologized to the manager. The caaba of Mecca is annually recovered with damask cloth by the sultan of the khedivate, a single covering valued at up to 76000 dollars.
The item notes the Hayti gold premium fluctuating between 400 and 500 percent. It also mentions brides in Australia being pelted with rose leaves, and a light cultural aside about a character named Tommy and a graduation this summer.
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