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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1895
Page
1
Local social life in North Amherst and nearby towns includes visitors from Toledo and Cleveland. Christmas services, church programs, and a wedding at South Amherst highlight a week of family gatherings, travels, and community events with many residents hosting relatives and attending entertainment and church activities.
A messy Wellington column reports Christmas visits, events at the opera house, a church Christmas exercise, a Brownseen entertainment, and town views on a local option election. It notes merchants, tradespeople, a temperance push, and opposition to saloons funded by ballpark profits.
In Lorain Dr G A Budd, prominent physician, narrowly escaped death when a masked robber shot at him near Eighth and McPherson streets. Budd returned fire, the assailant fled toward St Josephs cemetery as a posse formed. Budd later treated a sick child at the Curtis residence and aided his patient, while police investigate links to a contractor Curtis and a recent money dispute at Wells Street.
Letters accuse mock officials of selling street numbers under the Philadelphia plan while demanding an end to unlawful acts and urging the marshal to arrest and reimburse victims. State labor inquiry notes Maine citizens spend about 13 cents daily on food.
Residents report illness and recovery as Christmas events unfold. Miss Huboard closes school for a short vacation. Henry Stuart’s son shows marginal recovery from pneumonia. Families gather for birthdays and Christmas trees at Baptist and Methodist churches. Several locals travel to Toledo for a funeral. Baldwin University students return home for a two week break.
The passage ponders exhaustively the total coal on earth and its burning heat, imagining all coal mined and burned by an army of workers. It compares Earth's size with the sun and moon, asserts the sun's vast heat flux, and uses scale analogies to convey cosmic proportions.
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