Elyria’s early industry boom sparks 1895 overview
The Lorain County Reporter’s 1895 industrial edition highlights Elyria’s rise from a small village to a varied manufacturing center. Railroads expanded markets as the Junc tion and Cleveland Lorain lines opened, with key plants like Topliff and Ely bow sockets, Western Automatic Machine Screw, Elyria Shear, and Garford Manufacturing driving growth.
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Elyria
Lorain
Junction Railroad
Lakeshore
Michigan Southern
Toledo
Norwalk
Oberlin
Cleveland, Lorain
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Topliff and Ely
Civilized World
Western Automatic
Western Automatic Machine Screw Company
Cleveland
Elyria Shear Company
Elyria in 1895 a hub of saddles mills quarries and steel
The era shows rapid industrial growth in Elyria with firms like Garford Saddle Company expanding from 1889 to 1895, Fay Manufacturing making bicycles and tricycles, two large planing mills, stone quarries employing about 200 workers, the Elyria Milling Company starting a 150 barrels a day grist mill, and rapid electric rail service linking Elyria to the Johnson Company steel plant five miles away.
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Heo
Garford
Fay Manufacturing Company
C. Parsch
Hart and Tucker
United States
Canada
N. Eb, Massey and Company
Court House
Elyria
George G. Washburn
Elyria Milling Company
West Falls
Conside Company
Johnson Company
Black River
1842 Elyria Prices From Market Report in Courier
A study of 1842 Elyria Courier prices shows low costs for essentials. Butter eight cents per pound, butter in kegs seven, cheese four, eggs twelve cents a dozen, poultry four cents per pound. Other goods include wheat sixty cents per bushel.
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Elyria Courier
Engineers Report Travel Mansions Can't Come Loose
Engineers for the Bender Travel Mansion unveil a ball and socket hitch designed to keep the trailer securely attached. The system uses cold pressed 11 gauge steel, a screw jack with a six inch caster, and a ball and socket lock that locks on contact. A padlock can further secure the handle to prevent disengagement by bystanders.
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Bender Travel Mansion
Howard Dayton
Dayton
Local Market Prices for Grains and Provisions
Listed are commodity quotes: dian corn 25 cts per bushel oats 15 cts per bushel flour 3.75 per barrel buckwheat 31 cts per bushel beef 2 to 3 cts per lb pork 10 per barrel honey 10 cts per pound comb 8 cts strained apples 37 cts per bushel green winter apples 25 cts per bushel hay 3 to 4 dollars per ton salt 1.25 per barrel clover seed 3 to 3.25 per bushel hay 3 to 4 per ton salt 1.25 timothy 1 to 1.12 per bushel flax seed 75 cts per bushel ashes pots 3 cts per lb scorched salts 2 cts per lb lard 7 cts per lb and tallow 8 cts per lb
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Timothy
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Chronicle Telegram
Bastion
Big Bender
Bender Travel
Bender Travel Mansions
Elyria Ford
Elyrians
Bender Body CO
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Elyria Brass & Bronze CO
Walnut Street
Crestolay Hammers
Elevete
Farm Implement Co
Broad ST
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Elyria Bender Body CO
Goodrich Safety
Silvertown
J.C. McKinley
Broad Street
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