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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1904
Page
1
Elyria bands will move weekly concerts from Saturday to Thursday nights starting June. Merchants hope two weeknights of crowds will boost business, while residents expect continued attendance. Directed by Crandall, the band is now the county’s best and earns strong local support.
Deputy Coroner Houck says the body believed to be Clarence Flanner from this city may not be exhumed for identification. Time has likely erased distinguishing features and the father’s insistence is unclear. If not pursued, the grave will remain undisturbed as Harry Mapleson faces first degree murder charges and a potential manslaughter plea.
A court order summons a special jury after former trial before Judge Tilden ended with a hung verdict. Mapleson faced retrial as jurors disagreed with the prior panel, prompting continued legal action and courtroom scheduling.
Rev Ford Fisher, expelled from Cleveland's Franklin Avenue Methodist church for liberal views, will speak Sunday at 7 30 p m in Elyria's G A R hall. Rev Morgan Wood calls him a striking preacher who hits hard on core issues.
John Potter of Henrietta faces a possible life term after a burglary and larceny indictment for stealing eight eggs two goose eggs and hen eggs while drunk from Irene Wellman. Potter was arrested by Sheriff Sailsbury on Thursday. no sentence guarantee exists under current law.
A town paper laments rising cat populations killing robins and other songbirds. It notes cardinals and wrens largely vanished, with tramp cats roaming fields and barns in summer. The piece argues cats burden households with costs and suggests removing claws to protect birds.
Bernard Nicholls of Elyria fell to Bob Simpson in Chicago on Thursday by 3 up in a match watched by a growing gallery. Simpson outdrove Nicholls while Nicholls relied on woods. Simpson won the 100 prize as spectators bet heavily on the result.
In 1903 nearly 200 boys and girls ages eight to eighteen worked as child farmers in a city park. During July and August they watered, weeded, and tended plots while attending nature talks. Additions included a cympasium, playground, tiny farmhouse, green lawn, and farm buildings with activities for children.
Captain George Archer recounts odd experiences from 13 years as John D. Rockefeller’s bodyguard including a Vermont minister held up by a sick child’s mother. The Chicago Record-Herald notes his anecdotes as a safety guard and a minister’s life. A Harvard professor, Professor Francke, writes a poem pleasing to Germans involved with a Germanic art collection.
The M E church on Middle Avenue in Lexington opened with Rev R W Simama D D presiding elder and Rev Gev W Tindall as pastor. Rev J W Johnson of First Baptist and Hon M H Leyagiod spoke. Perry Meridith and Wm Smith aided. Services Sunday at 10 30 am and 7 pm with Sunday school at noon.
Tonight at the First Congregational Dr Beardsley presents an illustrated lecture on Brain Nerves and Temperaments. The show includes painted diagrams and stereopticon pictures with guidance on selecting life partners and avoiding matrimonial mistakes. Admission for all is 100 and season tickets admit you.
A National Geographic Magazine writer describes the Bagdad boil a common affliction affecting both Europeans and Arabs. The condition lasts eight to nine months and marks travelers by a personal scar. Turkish hospital doctors attribute it to climate water and sun while Dr Ramsey cites it as an infection from a sting by a small flying insect.
The baroness de Rahden once the spoilt darling of Europe rises in Paris society then loses fortune and sight after her husband dies. She returns to performance, blinds itself in a tragic riding accident with a blind horse, and sinks into misery and obscurity in Paris. An advertisement following mentions affordable tube bulbs at Boylan Bros.
A series of property transfers are recorded including John Kaiser and L Kaiser selling lot 27 in the Sharp addition to Elyria for 2600 dollars and Henry Wurst buying into the same parcel for 400. Other deeds cover Bent ley area plots, Penfield township lot 8 in tract 8, northwestern Russia township corner lot 106 for 2600, Ridgeville township land 49 acres for 8900, and multiple parcels in Black River and Sheffield townships with prices ranging from 2 to 3500 dollars. The list includes heirs transferring interests in Elyria and Lorain city parcels and several subdivision transfers among local names such as Rentar, Blaga, and Whitby.
Two detectives from the Anti Saloons League, Lewis Wean Jr and his father, quietly worked in Lorain and Blyria gin mills for a fortnight before the Okt grand jury session. Their sting led to about a dozen indictments, split roughly between Sunday sales and sale of liquor to minors.
A critical account recalls a two year period when a political conspiracy formed a scheme to dominate Lorain County politics and seize county offices. A newspaper named the Elyria Chronicle was created to control public opinion, led by Rev. J F Burke and allies while stock sold to loyalists. The scheme unraveled after county conventions exposed the gang, leaving leaders bankrupt and rejected by voters.
Wonder sues Conrad Wonder for divorce on statutory grounds while serving a workhouse sentence for non support. Attorney A B Lawrence represents Wonder. Eva Cheancey sues Fred E Chancey for divorce alimony and custody alleging gross neglect and habitual drunkenness. Attorney A B Lawrence represents Cheancey.
Alfred I. Woodward aged 27 a painter from Lorain marries Frances M. Sones aged 21 from Lorain. The notice appears in the 1941 record with a local ice cream reference to Champney's strawberry flavor.
President William B. Schiller and a National Tube Co. delegation toured the steel plant and assessed progress. He voiced confidence in the business outlook despite a precarious girder rail market, saying there is no reason for alarm and that product markets have been satisfactory to date.
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