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    2. October 14, 1907 Daily Journal (Telluride, San Miguel County) TWO CHILDREN KILLED Loraine, Ohio, Oct 14, - Mathew G. Loski, aged 5 years, and his sister Lucy, aged 11, were run down by a Lake Shore train and killed last night on a crossing near Amherst, and their aunt Miss Sophia G. Lover, fatally hurt. The three were walking on the track when the boy’s foot caught on a cattle guard. In attempting to rescue him, his sister’s foot also caught. The woman was trying to unlace the children’s shoes when a freight bore down on them. _________________________________________________ Dec 22, 1914- Daily Journal (Telluride, San Miguel County) FIRST OHIOAN OF 1915 WILL BE GIVEN MANY PRESENTS Loraine, Ohio Dec 22, - The first baby born in Lorain after January 1, 1915 will come into the world in possession of the proverbial silver spoon. A Lorain newspaper today offered a prize of ten dollars for the first 1915 baby. Lorain merchants are also being asked to come forward with offers of go-carts, clothes, and other necessary articles to the well being of infants. Lorain’s first 1914 infant received gifts ranking from a corset to a case of beer. ____________________________________________ Aug 21 1905 Daily Journal (Telluride, San Miguel County) The Peanut Club is the latest social Organization found in Lorain, Ohio. The members, all popular young women, are required to roll a peanut from Dexter Street to the loop, North Broadway, a distance of over two miles. The feat has so far been performed by five members. Te peanut route is through the busiest heart of the city. _____________________________________________ May 25, 1905 Durango Democrat (Durango, La Plata County) Passes as Bachelor for Eighteen Years Elyria, Ohio May 24- The arrival of a stranger looking for his father revealed a secret which James James, a well known Pittsfield man, had kept to himself for eighteen years. He was suppose to be a bachelor,, but he acknowledged the stranger as his son, and said that his own real name was James Heinsner. He left a wife and three children in Syracuse N.Y eighteen years ago, coming to this county where he managed an estate and made money. Last year he heard that his daughter was in hard circumstances and he bought her a house and lot. This furnished a clue for his son.

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