Taken From Our Files 1907 Lightning bids and Lake plant plans
A 1907 summary notes city lighting bids lowering to $65 per light yearly, and engineers foreseeing municipal plant savings under $500 per light. Also mentions Robert Lafollette lecture in Elgin, Clark Grosvenor debate, American Lace Co. plant site south of Dean Electric, with building to begin within thirty days.
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Styria
Leas Han
Robert Lafollette
Wisconsin
Elgin
Champ Clark
Charles Grosvenor
American Lace Company
Dean Electric
Large form costs estimated at ninety thousand dollars
A large form project is estimated to cost about $90,000. The note mentions the overall price and the scale of the undertaking without detailing funding or contractors.
Radium Found In Sportsman's Body in Pittsburgh Death
The body of Eben M. Byers, Pittsburgh millionaire sportsman, was found to contain the largest amount of radium ever present in a human body. Dr Charles Norris announced this after a toxicology report showed radium in bones brain lungs liver and kidneys. Byers died March 31 in New York.
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New York
Eben M. Byers
Pittsburgh
Charles Norris
Hoe
Byera
Momentous Question Debated by Epworth League
In Cuyahoga Falls Ohio on April 19 members of the Epworth League debated the prompt whether a girl should pay half the expenses on any date. The negative side won the discussion in a lively exchange reflecting era social norms.
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Cuyahoga Falls
Epworth League
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Elyria Telegram
Oberlin
Herbert F. Chaffen
Lawrence A. Chaffee
Obertin College
Cleveland Southwestern Railway
Elyria
Lorain
Oberlin College
Red Cross
Chronicle-Telegram
Middle Avenue
Columbus
Davis
Lorain County
William A. Ely
Board of Education
William EB. Bly
William C. Parks
Ton
Elyria Memorial Hospital
LaGrange
Grafton
First Methodist Church
SOKOL
Ves
Sures
Sorols
ST. Elyria
Tere
Lewis Mercantile
Betty Bright
Coats
Hilton
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