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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1907
Page
7
A tiger kept by a Turkoman in Kbiva snarls at passersby until a disciplined charmer enters the cage. He tames the beast with a collar and chain, guiding the tiger outside while the watching party remains tense and the Turkoman holds the tether.
The passage recalls Tom Hood and his celebrated work The Song of the Shirt. Hood sketched a tombstone inscription and faced wide acclaim as Punch published the piece in its Christmas issue. Mrs Hood urged its strong impact, inspiring translations and wide parodies across Europe.
The Lydians of Asia Minor pioneered stamped metal ingots as official coins before 700 BC, enabling fixed weights and standardized values. Mints arose at temples serving as banks, with coin types often bearing religious symbols and links to Moneta, the Roman mint goddess.
A traveler recalls a Swedish Christmas custom described near Gothenburg. In farmyards a pole with a full sheaf bound to the top is set out to feed wild birds, a tradition explained as a merry Christmas for the birds.
A curious floating island on the small lake near Traunser delights locals with shifting flora and roaming birds. Each Ascension day the island hosts the Volkefest with dancing and bratwurst while beer flows, drawing crowds and visitors from nearby areas.
A blue transparent butterfly named pteropoda is described by a professor who reads a newspaper through its wings. The creature resembles blue glass with visible heartbeat and feeds on putrid flesh and fish, noted as abundant in the Mediterranean and also found along Florida or California coasts.
The gecko, a thick tongued lizard widespread through tropical Europe and Asia, was long blamed for spreading leprosy due to its repulsive skin. Modern zoologists prove it harmless and useful, noting the name persists only from appearance rather than danger.
A compact note covers ancient coinage of Athens with the owl and Athene seal, Glippus bribery tale in Sparta, and Solon’s death penalty in coinage. It also includes two humorous vignettes about alterations and jury service.
A compilation of aphorisms on investing thrift and timely action. It contrasts cautious, prudent investing with bold opportunity seeking and notes how honesty and reliability impact employment and earnings.
The passage discusses spelling reform and the word phonetic, noting its difficult pronunciation. It also notes the phonetic shift in phoenix and a humorous egg metaphor. It then explains the caloric paradox with freezing on hot plates and historical experiments by Boutigny and Faraday. An advertisement for Electrogen tonic appears amid the excerpt.
The listing shows May 14 1906 rail departures for LS and MS Railway with East Bound and West Bound timetables. It includes train numbers 20 2 126 40 6 9 41 23 33 47 127 and others, various connections at Norwalk Sandusky and Toledo, with departures and arrivals from early morning to late evening. Presented by J Smith and W C Heim as ticket agents.
Advertorial claim that women suffer more pain than men and should avoid alcoholic medicines. Promotes a non alcoholic germicide Electrogen as a systemic tonic and local antiseptic, priced fifty cents to one dollar, with a booklet and offer of a free fifty cent bottle.
An advert promoting Mother Gray's Australian Leaf as a safe monthly regulator for women's pains back urinary bladder or kidney trouble and other female weaknesses. Sold by druggists or by mail for 50 cents with a free sample offered. The Mother Gray Co. Le Ray N Y.
Large 7 room house with bound barn on West Side near shops. Suitable as boarding house. Fruit trees grapes currants cistern lake water gas. First payment $10 per month 6 percent interest. Apply C. 4. COX.
Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free self help program to stop bed-wetting in children and adults. No money required and full instructions provided by mail. The message urges mothers not to blame the child and promises a constitutional cure.
Intricate timetable shows hourly departures from Elyria to Cleveland and back, with multiple limiteds to Oberlin Wellington Amherst Norwalk and other towns. Includes west bound routes from Lorain to Vermilion Norwalk Sandusky and Fremont and east bound services to Beach Park Cleveland with varied times and special late-night runs.
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