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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1906
Page
3
An ornate New York gathering at the Milerey house reveals a strained preoccupation with class status, wealth, and arranged matches. Mistraid Widella Oldaker and Cornelia Van Gelst mingle with heiresses and barons as dinners proceed, with gossip and display of wealth framing a looming marriage plot amid gaiety and old-world formality.
London reports the Milton Paradise Lost manuscript sold for around 3600 pounds to a dealer Frank Sabin, after a tense anticipation that Nelsons memorandum to the fleet before Trafalgar might fetch high bids at Christie’s. The sale concluded amid cheers and public interest in national treasures.
A promotional pitch urges advertisers to use the Elyria Reporter classifieds to reach most local homes daily. It touts seven money making ideas and says items worth buying can be sold via the want columns, highlighting strong ad revenue potential.
Classified notice lists line limits for various ad types including real estate, business opportunities, attorneys, auctions, and personal notices. It specifies rates like 8 lines for 25 cents and details on pricing for occupations and services.
Property listing invites inquiries to C. A. Cox at 35 East Broad street. Includes gas water fruit on premises chicken coop and lot. Price implied as negotiable. Also notices of hiring a cook maid and dining room girl at local addresses.
Job listing seeking a competent carpenter to perform all carpentering around a mill with rough work. Steady employment offered. Apply at Blytiarom and Steel Company. Dated 3 20 81.
A Wheeling company advertises a traveling salesman position offering first class bonds and percent bonds along with sales and expenses paid. No experience required and training in business is provided at the Wheeling Roofing and Lumber Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.
For sale or rent a 7 acre farm located one mile from Elyria with sturdy buildings. Crisp and Co. advertises the property in the August 21, 1948 notice.
Enquiry of J C Hin 3-20 ft. Classified notice notes rental inquiry for space in the Cheshire Ely Block with details partially obscured.
The Armer Shipbuilding Company based in Cleveland is the focus, with notes about first glass core makers seeking to join or engage, indicating an early industrial hiring or partnership matter. The reference hints at location in Cleveland and a coded designation B-16-e-0 d-6t, suggesting internal job or project identifiers.
County officials await exact text of the Wilson salary bill to confirm compensation levels. Reports indicate changes were debated but a $1,000 maximum remains possible for Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties. Auditor Haserod believes key features for Lorain county largely unchanged and many offices may follow the new schedule.
Two men died or were fatally injured from a gas leak at the J. M Basore livery office on Forest Street in South Lorain. William Telistow, 42, formerly of Cleveland, died. Raymond Westley O’Sweeney, 24, of Steubenville, was hospitalized in critical condition. Both were found in the livery office before 6 am Tuesday. Telistow had been dead for some time, O’Sweeney unconscious and foaming at the mouth. O’Sweeney, recently resigned from the South End Livery, rallied briefly but then sank again. Telistow had worked for J. M Basore for two days after coming from W. H. Bacore livery. O’Sweeney had connections to saloons and tent shows. The cause remains tied to the deadly gas exposure. medical staff, including Dr. L. D. Hurd, attended the victims. Telistow’s body is being held in the Reichlin Reidy and Scanlan chapel pending word from Cleveland relatives.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to soothe swollen nervous and damp feet, relieve aching and blistered feet, and ease bunions. It claims new comfort in tight shoes and offers a trial package free with the address Allen’s Olmsted LeRoy, NY.
Warrensville hosts an Always Faithful club after March 10. B P & O fare to Farnesville for 29 years at about 35 cents, a long standing rate since the old P&O era. The Navigation Company of Canneaut Lake adds a 50 passenger steamer Outing this summer due to rising lake traffic. Summit lake water from Akron faces pollution danger from Woellman Seaver Morgan plant. In Ashtabula Sweden school first graders drinking beer daily, some buy at saloons. A coal train runs hourly into Ashtabula. more engines added on branches. Rev H A Reinard named to English Lutheran pulpit in Leetonia. Grant Barrett of Jefferson jailed four years for forging a $15 note, leaving his mother in distress.
WANTED two or three nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping by a young married couple with a child. Can give best references. State terms. Address W. Reporter of ice. February 19, 1931.
The March 22 message from the Ministerial Association reports severe famine in Japan. Three northern provinces Miyagi Fukushima and Sendai with 2,821,547 people struggle, subsisting on shrub roots and tree bark. Church representatives WW Lampe C Jaquet J H DeForest M Madden G A Forrest and William Axline relay the crisis from Sendai and Morioka.
An advert urges Hindipo as a cure for Brights disease diabetes rheumatism gout gravel dropsy inflammation of the bladder and other kidney troubles. Druggist H A Dykeman offers prepaid home delivery for 60 cents with six boxes for 2 50 and a positive guarantee, and promises Lorain and Ashland sales. A separate notice reports Guardian Lenia B. Cason selling land to Lorain and Ashland Railroad for 2750 and seeking probate approval. In local gossip Allen Abbott peddles Wadsworth Bros Chico cigars to friends after twins arrive, praising Havana filler and 5 cent price.
Service schedule lists departure and arrival times for Care, Limiteds, and Oberlin connections between Elyria, Cleveland Public Square, Wellington, Lorain, North Amber, Grafton, Birmingham, Berlin Heights, Norwalk, and Norwalk Limiteds. Frequent hourly and 20 to 40 minute intervals from early morning to late evening with multiple daily runs and weekend variations.
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