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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1893
Page
8
A local ad touts a fair sale with dress shoes priced from 49 cents to 109 dollars. It highlights a wide range of children’s shoes and claims the city’s only complete line of calf kip or grain boots for boys youths and children with the lowest prices and best quality.
Mrs Mollie M Foster sues for alimony against Burton P Foster in Hancock County Common Pleas Court alleging adultery and abandonment after a marriage in Bucyrus October 1857. A temporary injunction restrains sale of stock and transfer of funds. Foster is in Kingfisher Oklahoma. Related dispatch notes the couple’s social prominence and a 16 year old typist in Col Ropes office, with details of elopement to Oklahoma and family connections.
Agricultural notes praise the Jones Winter Fife line for high yields and strong even heads, with reports of 50 to 65 bushels per acre and a recommendation to invest in Improved Winter Fire and Reliable Minnesota. A Kansas city police judge, a novel tramp sentence, chinch bug controls, and migratory schemes in Iceland also appear alongside brief farm and trade observations from Dr Kendall’s horse treatise promotion and a Lake Shore excursion notice.
The Nickel Plate Road plans a Sunday September 3 service expansion by merging the Chicago and Cleveland and Buffalo accommodations into a through express with sleeping cars from Chicago to Buffalo. Direct connection at Buffalo for fall points east.
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