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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1903
Page
3
A scrambled ad column lists diverse notices including travel tickets and low fares, house and lot for sale, a five month old fox terrier, handyman services, candy kitchen ads, heating hardware, a moving van, a drugstore remedy, and a sale notice for an Art Invincible. Names include H. Radin, G. A. Cox, Ely Power Bik, and E. W. Grove. Locations reference Middle Avenue, Cleveland Street, Bank and West Street, and Century Block.
Eminent London Medical Institute physicians establish Lorain branch at 612 Broadway to treat all chronic diseases free for three months through November 5. They guarantee cures, provide consultation and surgery, and will advise against useless care if incurable. Hours 9 to 8, Sunday 10 to 1.
Residents and visitors from Wellington Ivane Lorain and Oberlin spent Sunday in Amherst or nearby towns. Socials, lectures, and concerts were noted at First Congregational and with local clubs. A large sale at D Lewis and Co featured white and black and white waists. plans for a Northeastern Ohio Teachers association convention drew teachers. a People’s Institute lecture highlighted Turkish captivity.
Notice to U S Steel common stock holders that dividend cheques mailed to New York on the 29th were destroyed in a Lancaster Pa railway wreck on Sept 30. The company asks postal authorities to trace missing mail and provide blank forms upon request.
Texas cattle shipments to South Africa, announced in January, aim to supply breeding stock for Transvaal herds. By June 1909, 4050 head had arrived with more on the way, including Short horns and Devon breeds. Stock depots at Victoria feed the farms awaiting sale to upgrade South African cattle quality under government guidance.
A New York Herald report describes a quirky game called cat chucking played by residents of Washington Heights. Participants trap stray cats in bags at a tree foot, release them, and the first cat to reach its owner’s home wins. Players limit entries to felines under ten days or two weeks old to keep the competition fair.
The four and a half meter tall clock by Collin, shown at the Paris exhibition of 1855, now overhauled, claims near perfect timekeeping within a hundredth of a second per year. It displays time for twelve world cities with individual dials and shows year month and day. its pendulum also serves as a precise barometer.
A political speaker denounces a rival as unfathomable in meanness and warns that if the rival persists in a disgraceful course, two can play at that game, signaling a sharp challenge amid escalating tensions.
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