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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1906
Page
4
A column questions what Elyria area factories offer workers in terms of welfare. It highlights clean facilities, provided uniforms, nearby flower gardens, and meals offered at low cost, urging the Chamber's programme committee to ask firms to disclose benefits and surrounding improvements for employees during work hours.
At a Friday board of health meeting Elyria leaders debated factory welfare and employee comfort. The Chamber of Commerce plans a future program after Murbach’s Daytona visit highlighted NCR’s plant and its founders’ belief that profit should serve humane aims.
Rail and bus timetables list hourly departures from 5:00 am to 11:00 pm with Cleveland Limiteds priced at 0.40 and 0.40. Elyria to Oberlin and Wellington services include 12:30 am and 1:40 pm options. Connections extend to Lorain Amherst Gratton Norwalk and Birmingham among others. agents Wilson Buswell Madame Fisher advertised.
The De positors' Savings and Trust company, capitalized at $300,000, was incorporated in Columbus yesterday. Incorporators include Mm J Rudolph and A T Welsh with others from the Rudolph firm. M A Fanning, Forest City Railway president, is linked to the project though promoters remain unnamed. Rumors tie Fred C Howe and Senator Schmidt to the venture.
A group of four horse wagon loads of youths enjoyed an old fashioned hay ride in the country last night returning late. The Electric Package Co. suffers streetcar stoppages in Cleveland as mayor limits routes. General manager A Kenworthy protests to Johnson without result.
Mrs Johann Schmidt of Allegheny searched Northside police headquarters last night for her husband who was moved from Baltimore last Monday and due in Pittsburgh Tuesday. She paid 47 80 for a ticket and waited as telegrams from Baltimore showed he was forwarded by express. No trace of the package was found. Also printed is a notice from Elyria Ohio announcing a Columbia Steel Company stockholders meeting on November 24 to vote on dissolution and charter surrender with C E Lozier listed as president.
Honrs EH Dixey has starred in The Man on the Box with standouts in New York Chicago Pittsburg Boston and Philadelphia. Elyria is one of six smaller cities on his tour and he will appear at the Elyria Theatre for one performance tonight. Manager Dyk man expects sold out seats as the run has drawn enormous success nationwide.
Division A of the Ladies Aid Society will hold a package sale at the MBE Church this evening. Lunch will be served from 5 30 to 7 o'clock. Everyone invited.
Portsmouth Ohio October 26 The Ohio State Library Association elected officers including President Burton E Stevenson Chillicothe Vice Presidents John Pugh Columbus Laura Smith Cincinnati Dr W D Conklin Dayton Secretary Miss Mary Parker Elyria Treasurer Miss Grace Prince Springfield Columbus selected as meeting place for next year
Detroit dated report states Colonel Lillie deputy state food inspector and president of Coopersville Creamery was fined for adulterating butter. He paid 1620 to settle with federal authorities after samples showed butter exceeding 16 percent midstate content. Total payment included 9700 dollars tax, 100 dollar May and June tax, and 350 penalty.
In Munich on October 25 Countess Mon tigne once Crown Princess Louise of Saxony sought a reunion with her two sons. The youths avoided embraces and kisses, bowing only politely at the Continental hotel interview. The countess sobbed while the meeting was lengthy yet tense. The grand duchess of Tuscany, her mother, joined and later left with her daughter.
New York on October 26 reports that James T. Dawson American minister to San Domingo has gone shoeless for a year. He wore his first pair of brogans today before boarding the Clyde line coaster Seminole returning from the West Indies. He cites tropical foot disease as the cause and says he is on leave to have his feet treated.
Akron Ohio Oct 26 The twelfth annual convention elected Mrs. Margaret Evans La Grange president and Mrs. Francis Smith Akron senior vice president. Samantha Armstrong Fredericksburg will be delegate to the national convention with Mary Watson Oberlin as alternate. Next district convention set for Lorain. Readings by Virginia McLaughlin Mansfield state president and Sadie Chapman Cincinnati state installation officer. Mary Horner Oberlin district president spoke.
Washington January 26 Postmaster General Cortelyau submits estimates for the next fiscal year totaling 206 662 1590 an increase over the present appropriation by fifteen million dollars The principal items include compensation for postmasters clerks pay for letter carriers rural delivery and railway mail service plus new freight and expressage costs among others
Attorneys for Frank Leblang, alleged forger, filed a motion for a new trial and a motion for arrest of judgment. The steps aim to delay execution of sentences until an appeal is possible. When asked about Leblang’s whereabouts, attorney Neidingaid replied, I guess we can find him when we want him.
A promotional note states prices are low and terms are very easy making it affordable for anyone to buy a lot in The New Center. The offer emphasizes accessible purchase options and simplified financing to attract buyers.
Crown Point Indiana October 26 Cart Packard and Prea Gerserung admitted to police tonight they were part of a gang that planned to blow up a Lake Shore trail if railroad officials did not pay $6000. A housemaid died when dynamite exploded in a room at Aetna, threatening the hoarding house and the nearby Aetna powder plant.
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