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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1907
Page
7
The article explains the regularity of ocean tides and how governments chart daily tides for different regions. It describes high and low water cycles, six hour phases, and phenomena such as surface flood and deeper ebb, noting variable tides, bores near the Fundy Bay area, and places with unusual or scant tidal activity.
A compact meditation on how social convention binds men’s actions and reputations, arguing hats symbolize public judgment and that even great figures cannot defy fashion. It contrasts masculine autonomy with archiepiscopal restraint and calls convention the red tape enforcing decorum.
A historical note on farm groves, windbreaks, and timber varieties for western lands. It describes pioneer efforts, drought impact on Lombardy poplars, and recommended planting plans. Emphasis on black walnut, cottonwood, soft maple, box elder, and strategic thinning for firewood.
A farmer proposes a simple method to purify well water by building a platform over the well with a frame of 2 by 4s and two inner screens. A large mesh screen blocks vermin and a finer screen keeps out dirt and insects. In winter the platform is covered with straw and snow to prevent contamination.
A guide on forming wind breaks using light groves and evergreens to shield fields. Suggestions include black walnut, butternut, white ash, elm, basswood, shellbark hickory, bur oak, box elder, wild black cherry, white birch, catalpa, cottonwood, and willow. Indian harvesters in Nebraska collect potatoes for daily wages, traveling between farms during harvest. Disking alfalfa at low cost distributes crowns, reduces pests, loosens soil, and aids water and air penetration.
The National Good Roads association, based in St Louis, urges the U.S. government to reconstruct a 700 mile national road across five states Idaho not included Pennsylvania Virginia Ohio and Ludiana to a modern standard. They cite $7,000,000 cost and compare it to battleship spending, arguing a first class continental highway would boost travel and national progress as Americans paid $500,000,000 to use European roads in 1940.
The article describes an anti dust campaign in Switzerland using coal tar applied to roads. It notes oiling, watering with deliquescent salts and tarring as methods, with tar deemed most effective. Gas works tar, hot or cold, is spread on cleaned roads, then brushed and allowed to set for 24 hours. French trials show favorable results and modest per square yard costs.
A preachy urging to value and improve transportation networks cites Pacific Monthly. It argues railroads as sun of transport second to wagon roads, and urges farming communities to fix bad roads to reduce wear, speed travel, and boost settlement and values. It parallels Roman road building with modern needs and calls for unified road maintenance.
Washington dispatch reports Representative William R Hearst of New York introduced a bill to appropriate 50 million dollars for road construction to extend the postal service and reduce farm and industry dependence on railroads. The plan limits annual spending to 10 million dollars and would have the government cover half the cost of country roads ten miles or longer.
Over the last twelve years about 622 miles of state highways were built in Massachusetts at an approximate cost of £5,100.00. Approximately 20 percent are macadam roads, with the remaining 80 percent gravel.
East bound trains list Norwalk Sandusky divisions with numbers 20 126 40 6 2 50 10 12 44 60 and 8:45 am to 11:26 pm. West bound services include Buffalo Chicago Boston Chicago Express Pacific Express and Norwalk Sandusky accommodations with multiple daily departures. A J Smith and W W Co. ticket agents announce end of list.
An advertisement claims alcoholic medicines threaten women's health and promotes Electro-gen non alcoholic germicide as a life improving antiseptic. It asserts women endure pain more than men and urges use of the product for systemic and local benefits. The offer includes a fifty cent bottle and a free fifty cent bottle with address to Electro-gen Co Fremont, Ohio.
Pleasant herb cure claimed to regulate monthly cycles and alleviate back pains urinary bladder and kidney troubles and female weaknesses including inflammation and ulcerations. Sold by druggists or mail order for 60 cents sample free from The Mother Gray Co Le Roy New York authority.
For sale a large seven room house with barn on the West Side near shops. Suitable for a boarding house with fruit trees grapes currants cistern lake water and gas. First payment ten dollars per month at six percent interest. Apply C. A. Cox.
Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free home treatment with full instructions to mothers troubled by bed wetting. The ad claims the method cures children and also adults with daytime or nighttime urine difficulties and urges readers to send money and write promptly.
Train timetable lists departures from Elyria to Oberlin Wellington Amherst Norwalk and other towns, with east and westbound routes, limiteds to Sandusky and Vermilion, and multiple daily times plus notes on ticket purchases and agencies in Elyria Cleveland and Lorain.
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