Untidy tale of squid barrels and telegraphers notes
A fragmented account recalls a Boston firm shipping a barrel of strong squid that broke in transit near Elyria, with the express company disputing a $288 claim. The piece shifts to a Lake Shore division telegraph operator seeking higher pay, detailing rough hours, union benefits, and the no-student policy of railway telegraphers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Express
Elyria
Express Company
Kelly Ieland Wine Company
Lake Shore Railroad
St Cid Mies
Lake Shore
Order of
Furnishings and Hats Advertise Latest Spring Styles
Local merchant touts largest cheapest furnishing horse in town and announces hats caps and pants in red, Albnew goods, and a merchant tailoring department. Guarantee of fit and high quality work with new ship Spring Style of Piece Goods on offer.
Inaugural Drive for H. H. Wimmers Shoes
A promotional copy touts H. H. Wimmers new drive for con sandals claiming the three cent footwear offers six cents worth of service per five cent price. The copy emphasizes rugged reliability and bargain pricing across rough or smooth roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Todny
Lorain County Savings Bank Promotes Liberal Interest Policy
A Lorain County savings bank highlights its large capital base of 423000 and total security to depository of 423000, with 200000 paid-up cash capital and 200000 stockholders liability. It announces 4 percent annual interest paid twice yearly, with no interest on funds under two months in deposit. Board includes Wr A Braman WW Boynton H H Clough Parke Foster and others. the bank claims over a quarter million dollars paid to depositors in interest and stable dividends for eighteen years under careful management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain Co
Wr A Braman
WW. Boynton
H. H. Clough
Parke Foster
J. C Hill
Jno
C Hale
Ko A. Horr
C.W Horr
John Lerseh
Ko Laundoan
FL. Metcalf
D. J Nae
S.3 Warner
A.l L. Garford
Henry Ware
Tom Homi
Wat AL Braman
A. L. GarFarp
W. Simmons
Elyria
SL Pomeroy’s
E. Bement
Ionia
Mich
Kensister
Steadman
Cade foReranet
Grippe
Lundgy
Sap
Lewis Shaw
Chas Stone
A. Hanmer
Aurora Boreauts
Northern Lights
North Pole
Diep
Old Cap
Colly
Ora Nicholls
Hay
Chas
Cornell
Wayne
Medina
Literary Society
Melvina West
Grorge Panrsans
Coldwater
Weppin
Lochinvar
Willie Hubbell
Effie
Clinton Hanmer
Daniel Williams
Wellington
James Baldwin
Board of Education
Russia Township
Special School District No
Wildman
Norwalk
E. Metcalf
Oberlin
Webber and Johnson
Vermilion real estate sale and ice floe rescue at Sandusky
The notice lists a Lorain land sale of a $1,000 plot for a three story brick block on Broadway, a tragic ice field incident near Sandusky Bay where the American Eagle rescued sixty five frozen people, and local civic updates from Lorain and nearby towns including church events, quarries layoffs, and miscl. notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Win Trau
Grafton
James Heed
Lorain
Broadway
Kelly
Ottawa County
Ohio
Lake Erie
Thornburg
Lodi
Cleveland
Chatham
Eharte
Liverpool
Sandusky
Put-in-Bay
Sandusky Bay
Eagle Wa
Local News Briefs From Oberlin And Surrounding Areas
Miss Maury Boothe visits friends in Oberlin while a son arrives at Michael Fitzpatrick’s home. John Moon suffers rheumatism of the heart and Frank Garrett works on lumber for a slaughter house. Miss Alice Rienders endures a severe pneumonia attack. A Carlisle girl elopes with an Eaton man, is pursued by her brothers and caught in Grafton, returning home to a distressed mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sauer
Belle Gilbert
Belle
Misa Gilbert
Seuber Chase
Central Shoe Store
Broad St
Maury Boothe
Oberlin
Michael Fitzpatrick
John Moon
Harry Davidson
Frank Garrett
Alice Rienders
Carlisle
Eaton
Grafton
Near-drowning at Miller's quarry in Grafton
A. O. Baich narrowly escaped death Tuesday when the dirt dump at Miller's quarry swept him into a thirty foot plunge under ice. He climbed back to the opening, resurfaced, and later was warmed and put to bed at the Allen house before returning for supper that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. O. Baich
Miller’s
Cora
Allen House
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Bank of Elyria
Ohi
Capipal
Hawai Evy
Haexry E. Massey
W Hucsesr
Hume
Howe
Sam Rawson
Space Beongs
F. M. Salzman
Ghas. F. Lee
Baker & Foster's
A. W. Hazel
Ted Orrice
Spitcenberg
White House
H. H. Wimmers
West Broad Street
Reliable Store
THE
Saving Deposit Bank Cof
Elyria, O
Comedieal
Reqblin
Boylan Bros. Grocers
Pebrary 2d
Andin
Boylan Bros
East Broad Street
WM. Vischer & Soh., General Managera
Chas. B. Salyer
Vermillion
Lorsin
Temple of Fame
Ingleside
Wm. Locke
Olmstead Falls
Columbia Center
Columbia and Olmstead Falls
North Amherst
Vari
Vantobel
Bere
WS. A. Meoris
Henry Nelding
St Joseph's Church
Casper Winterburger
Adam Baumbart
A.C. Ernst
Leasittsburg
Ernst
Hulda Barent
Reamer's
J. Rankin
Lake Helen
Fla
Rankin
Ladies’ Belief Corps
Allie Kelch
John Remington
Sste
Mra
L. Harris
Lutheran Church Society
Cleveland Stone ‘Company
Matone Stone Company
Old Clough
George Hearn
Samuel Kendeigh
South Quarries
Mr. Hollingsworth
Samuel Roe
Congregational Church
Joseph Goudfried
Elyria Street
Briggs
Ridgeville
Pittsfield
Manning, Bowman & Co
Manning & Bowman
Crockery and Glass
C S. Jonxson
Berbe
Kentucky
Lergie
Caaa
Witsox
PRIGE
W.l.fay
A. G. Carpenter
Ieee Pet
Shell
Buchan
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