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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
5
A busy snippet covers a successful appendectomy, a local divorce hearing decision pending, and a will filed in LaGrange probate court. Also noted are a September Republican convention, Lorain levy adjustments, Cedar Point steam boats, Foresters meeting, carnival fracas, and traction service plans plus a London directory anecdote and a Detroit Free Press joke.
Miss Antoinette Crow visits Mrs Powers at the West Side Green House. John Thompson and Oliver Beele charged with intoxication pleaded guilty and were fined five dollars plus costs. R M Summers and Son advertise a special sale this week. A disturbance at a Cheapside restaurant led to Steve Velsoria arrest for liquor influence. Oberlin beat Kenyon 11 to 1 in the season finale. The Second Congregational church Women’s Association to host supper on Wednesday night. Dr GE French in Cleveland on business. Judge Nye and wife attended Obergo commencement. St Mary’s LCBA to host lawn fete and ice cream on June 20. Mrs LeRoy Collins granted a divorce. husband in Michigan.
A playful note praising Movida Cantelopes as fine fruit. The message encourages trying them with a suggestion to serve one ice cold, emphasizing enjoyment and refreshment.
The court cut off Collins from all dow er interest in 20 acres of Hind farm in Ottawa county Michigan as part of a divorce granted on gross neglect. The note also mentions other local items including a factory promotion and a rail incident in Buffalo with minor injuries.
Lord Curzon, former viceroy of India, told the Society of Authors in a London speech that on taking office he planned to publish a book written for India but canceled the plan due to Lord Salisbury's rule prohibiting a prospective viceroy from publishing about the country he would govern.
Data shows 1 861 cities with over 2 500 inhabitants contain 201 959 more women than men. Except for 1890 when 1 490 such cities had 6 929 more men, the nation overall had 1 519 559 more men.
King Oscar of Sweden is described as a poet and musician with nautical songs popular in the navy. He has written histories and dramas, translated classics, and authored hymns that enjoy high popularity.
The King of England rules vast regions with subject numbers: Asia 309,900,000. America 7,500,000. Africa 43,000,000. Australasia over 5,000. Europe 42,000,000. Religious distribution includes Hindus 208,000,000. Mohammedans 94,000. Christians 58,000,000. Buddhists 12,000,000 and others 28,000,000.
A royal messenger bursts into the castle yard claiming he was delayed while archers guard the king’s apartments. A yeoman responds that the king waits and keeps his moustaches in check as the early hour passes.
In a clipped exchange from the Atlanta Constitution a man asks where Sue is and notes he last saw her not far away. He recalls she was then killing rattlesnakes to harvest rattles for a necklace to wear to a party.
The term finance traces to settling up and ending debts. It began as ordinary closing of accounts in English and later acquired a special sense of ransom in financial contexts.
In a playful exchange Miss Singleton and I discuss aging with Miss Singleton claiming they share a birthday. The other person jokes about different life speeds and a dent in time between them, reflecting urban chatter from Cuicago Daily News.
A group of 600 Japanese visitors paused around Nelson’s tomb at St Paul’s Cathedral in silent tribute, showing ancestral worship’s influence in a solemn moment. An English farmer paid a fine with a blank check after his sheep wandered, and the court filled it for a small sum. A later remark claimed a machine would replace ten workers, prompting laughter about chickens in response.
Revival songs led by Mr Alexander gain widespread popularity in England with the Glory hymn printed about 17 million times in three years. London dailies publish both words and music.
A fragmented clipping discusses a plan in San Francisco where all able-bodied men are to be employed for city work. The London Globe notes the event as a dramatic hardship, while a Chicago Tribune quote hints at caution and social unrest amid the breakage of silence by a gangster and an adviser.
Reports state several women arrested during recent riots in British Guiana were sentenced to have their hair cut as punishment. The earl of Elgin has signaled that women will not be subjected to this form of punishment again in the colony.
Miss Carolyn Patch of Los Angeles has been named general secretary of the British American Young Women's Christian Association in Paris. She is noted as an accomplished linguist, cited as the reason for her selection. The item reflects a cross Atlantic civic connection and a young American joining a European religious organization.
An anonymous source recalls a chaotic funeral scene where a large number of flower arrangements were hacked and disrupted, described as the greatest display of hacks witnessed at a funeral in Houston.
Dialogue fragment shows Mrs Slimdiet urging more mackerel and Mr Boarder declining with a humorous offer of a bucket of water. The exchange highlights thrifty domestic banter featured in the weekly column.
A Washington visit reveals a senator once opposed a bill now voting for it after yielding to pressure. The Chicago Tribune notes the senator said he had conscientious scruples, but the correspondent suggests he capitulated to political necessity and changed his stance.
A Swiss school assignment asks a boy to multiply two gigantic numbers. He returns 18,009,652,152,275,773,242,093,675 as the product, illustrating the scale of arithmetic in the task. The report uses the example to illustrate the nature of the homework.
The largest individual maker of clothespins in the world is Lewis Mann of Bryants Pond Maine. He started with $400, bought an old disused mill and has since amassed a comfortable fortune in the business.
A bystander asks DeYoung if he was hurt after an automobile collision. He replies that he was not hurt until the remark about being a shame to see an old man bowled over. The exchange highlights a light moment following the incident.
A Portland Oregonian note praises San Francisco for money and sympathy sent from the Molokai leper settlement, calling it evidence that sympathy is one of humanity's strongest traits.
A brief exchange quotes a man calling another "cold-blooded." The reply says the second man shows no more concern for troubles than the speaker, reflecting a tense interpersonal moment reported by the Louisville Courier Journal.
Natal South Africa reports totals from official returns: whites 97109, Asians 100918, mixed races 6686, natives 904042. Of Europeans 50758 are males.
The Chicago Tribune quotes a dialogue on life and rights with a professor remarking that men may lack a right to be born, framing a grim meditation on existence.
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