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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1895
Page
7
A translated fragment from a German fable recounts a quarrel between a deer and a group within a scene of clamor. The deer grows angry and roars as the others ignore commands and threaten punishment. The text preserves a rustic and comic tone with animating sounds.
An Australian report notes rabbits climbing trees to escape dogs and to forage on bark high above ground. It also describes kea parrots in New Zealand preying on sheep, sometimes hundreds in one night, and mentions global notes on birds shifting diets when grain or vegetables are scarce.
The Chicago Time Herald reports on two pugs in Englewood and Groveland Park showing remarkable trainability. Grover, a full blooded pug belonging to Charles Tibbies, learned many tricks from age four weeks, including walking on hind legs and fetching items. A second pug repeatedly barked to summon a dressmaker to dinner, illustrating notable responsiveness.
A mid-Atlantic rescue tale recalls a drowning man who leaps overboard and clings to a doomed yacht. Volunteers, a young midshipman, and a doctor risk life in a frantic boat deployment as towering waves threaten the effort. The heroic struggle ends with no clear rescue as the mission falters amid raging seas.
Amid a perilous voyage two men clung to a cave while others towed a rescuer and the rescued. The fright near death sobered the would be suicide who had driven to drunken spree. Restoratives revived him and two hours later he faced another solitary trial, condemned to drops for the rest of the voyage for exposing six valuable lives.
An excerpt from Farm and Garden urges a rural roads movement to improve Ohio routes and beyond. Farmers claim bad roads cost money, wear on teams, and hinder market timing while noting Massachusetts has funded early highway efforts. The piece discusses road foundations, materials tested, and the need for systematic work to ease mud, delays, and transport costs nationwide.
A Red Bank Register excerpt discusses Monmouth Street road work with filling holes using elu and gravel and warns against wasting money on clay and gravel top layers. It also includes Autumn work in the garden advising manure incorporation for soil, fresh produce, and early preparation for spring gardening.
Eight year old Henry Runer living with two younger sisters in Front street died in his bed after reports of headaches and sorrowful care by his widowed father and neighbor Mrs Weigand. The tragedy highlights hard lives of poor families in big cities with his mother dead months earlier.
The excerpt critiques Nordau's claims on Wagner Tolstoy and other geniuses, arguing he overextends psychiatric theory. It notes Nordau’s tendency to label great minds as insane, while acknowledging that many geniuses exhibit eccentric or delusional traits. It questions the reliability of diagnosing genius as pathology and emphasizes originality as a hallmark of true talent.
A distressed woman contemplates drastic revenge on a drunken husband after years of arrests and abuse, threatening to melt lead in the kitchen fire to harm him when he returns home. The scene shifts to magazine-like vignettes about gambling, curious speak, and a hornet tragedy involving an infant on a plantation, ending with a quip about vaccination.
A sprawling, fractured summary of superlatives and odd items from a 19th century miscellany: tallest chimneys in Glasgow, grand theatres in Paria, long routes and deep oceans near Tristan da Cunha, and a local tale of water-for-work punishment in Bridgeport. Includes health tonic advertising and aged-widow note.
A garbled OCR style passage cites religious and medical claims about a candidate, mentioning Cure for Consumption and faith as the basis of science. The text includes stray names and phrases suggesting public interest in an office race and voter scrutiny.
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