Wholesale Express Robbery Uncovered
Detectives arrested Walter Wright a driver for Adams Express at Pearl and Butter streets while officers searched his home 1107 Broadway finding gloves hats shoes apparel and merchandise from express wagons valued at 300. Wright confessed to grand larceny as local express officials reported losses prompting the investigation led by Detectives Shearwood Heustien Wegener Knockenhaver and Beckroege based on a tip from Mrs John Abraham.
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Shearwood
Heustiein
Walter ‘Wright
Adams Express Company
Pearl and
Butter Streeta
Wegener
Knockenhhaver
Beckroege
Wright
Broadway
Express Company
John Abrahama
Ludlow Street
Foreigners Seek Citizenship in United States Court
More than seventy aliens applied for admission to citizenship in a United States court session yesterday. Two were denied after admitting violations tied to working as barkeepers. One applicant, Afton Massman of Seymour, Indiana, claimed decades of residence and service in local office and militia, then learned his papers were only first papers. An amusing exchange arose when a man failed to identify the U.S. president, saying Wilson was English.
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United States
Afton
Massman
Northern Avenue
Hollister
Séymour
Ind
Indiana
Wilson
Charter Commission Banquet Honors Citizens' Charter Campaign
Charter Commissioners and Citizens' Charter supporters attended a banquet at the Business Men's Club to show appreciation for their work in the summer election. Speakers recounted campaign experiences after a menu and speeches.
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Charter Commission
Judgments Against United Railway for 25000 Damages
George W Douglass, deemed sane by Missouri standards though labeled insane in Ohio, won a $25,000 judgment against United Railway Company for personal injuries from a wreck. He testified in his own case, brought from Dayton where he was an asylum patient, with the suit linked to injuries from March 26, 1908 on a Maryland avenue car.
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St. Louis
George W Douglass
Missouri
Ohio
United Railway Company
Dayton
Douglass
Maryland Avenue Cay
Tools Taken Report At 405 East Second Street
William Bolden reported to the Second District police that tools valued at 11 dollars were stolen from his shop yesterday. The incident was recorded as a theft at the 405 East Second Street location.
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William, Bolden
East Second Street
Second Distret
Hs Shop
New Business Men's Club Announces Standing Committees
The newly elected president names the House Committee with Louis P. Ficks as chairman and C. B. Braunstein and Johan L.. Membership Committee with George Verdon as chairman and Morris Wickersham, Zr. Bragg, George T. Morris as members for the upcoming year.
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Business Men's Club
House
Louis P. Ficks
B. Braunstein
Johan L
George Verdon
Morris Wickersham
Zr. Bragg
George T. Morris
Young inmate seeks operation to cure criminal tendencies
A 19 year old county jail inmate facing larceny charges appeals to authorities to perform an operation to change his criminal nature. He says he would risk death to be morally improved and hopes Dr E H Pratt can determine if surgery would help. He left Manistee at thirteen after a wish to avoid bringing disgrace to his parents.
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Tucanellen i
AeHarry
Hershon
E. H. Pratt
Macly Hoyne
Manistee
Mich
Traction Co Loses Suit For 5475 In Fatal Crash
George Mick’s estate won a 5475 verdict against Cincinnati Traction Company after a Brighton car barn crash on March 12 1912. The jury found the motorman’s neglect to cut power caused Mick’s death and rejected the company’s defense under the later Employers’ Liability law. Administrator G Hertsman represented the decedent.
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Nippert
Cincinnati Traction Company
George Mick
Mick
Brighton
Dia Gatenee
Pres. G. Hertsman
Community Opposition to Beiliss Lecture Plan
Rabbi Grossmann denounced a proposed lecture tour by Beiliss, the acquitted defendant in the ritual murder case, arguing it would harm the Jewish cause. He aligned with the American Jewish Committee’s view that the tour would magnify zealot effort and incite unnecessary publicity.
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Beiliss
Cincinnati
Rabbi Grossmann
American Jewish Committee
Kieff
Belliss
Russia
White House wedding ties and suffrage events draw crowds
Philadelphia reports a society focus on Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Dr. Gilbert Horax amid an engagement denial by the White House. The piece notes a suffrage congress with delegates from twenty nine countries, and a forthcoming bar ride and zoo dinner for attendees. The article also mentions election day at the Sinton auditorium.
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Philadelphia
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Gilbert Horax
Wilson
Mme
Elizabeth ‘Patton
Stoneleigh Court
Hollister. Sturgis
Chestnut Hill
Horak
Jessie Wilson
Francis Howes Sayre
Misa Margaret Wilson
New York
White House
Ohio Suffrage Convention Celebrates 28th Session in Cincinnati
The Ohio State Suffrage Association held its twenty eighth annual session with a banquet for visiting delegates at the Hotel Linton in Cincinnati attended by about 220 people. Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton served as toastmistress and lauded the movement while Judge William Littleford praised Cincinnati as a stronghold for suffrage activity. The event highlighted leaders such as Mrs Mary Shortwood Mrs Mary Yeager Mrs Sara Drukker and Mrs Ricketts Snell and noted Upton’s continued leadership in the fight for constitutional amendment enfranchising women.
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Sinton Hall
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mary, Ci Shortwrood
Mary Yeager
Sara T. Drukker
Ricketts Snell
Hotel
Linton
Ohio State Suftag Association
Clubs of
Harriet Taylor Upton
Daniel Kiefer
William Littleford
State Civil Service Board to Probe Cincinnati Charges
The State Civil Service Commission arrives in Cincinnati to investigate accusations by Republican office seekers that civil service in the city is a fraud. Witnesses including Mayor-elect Spiegel and Prosecutor Pogue will appear at a 10 o'clock session in City Hall Council chamber.
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Cincinnati
Civil Service Commission
State Board
Spiegel
Pogue
Council
City Hall
Patrolman Recovers Nine Quarts Of Whisky Loot Evidence
Patrolman Teleg eder of the Fourth District police seized nine quart bottles of whisky found in a vacant house at 1556 West Sixth Street. Police believe the liquor is loot from a Big Four Railroad freight-house robbery several days earlier.
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Fourth District Polie
Telegeder
Fourth District Police
West Sixth Street
Big Four Railroad
Coat Stolen From Oakley Woman
Mary Lazy of North Avenue Oakley reported to police that a coat valued at 18 dollars was stolen from her room yesterday.
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Mary Lazy
North Avenue
Oakley
Playful weighing machine accident kills eight year old
An eight year old boy at 1508 Kim street was crushed when a weighing machine toppled while he tried to weigh himself near Kum mere saloon at Fifteenth and Fimia recta. The boy had been allowed to visit a nickel show and died from a fractured skull sustained in the incident. Fire Marshal Strieff assisted with his automobile in transporting the boy to doctors who confirmed the fatal injury.
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Chester Hoeflinger
Kim Street
Kummere
Fifteenth
Elm Street
Himseltt
Strieff
Julian Questions Chicago Garbage Plan Viability
WA Julian president of the Chicago Refining Company doubts the proposed garbage treatment plant. He notes his firm gave a short option on its Chicago plant to Illinois Refining and that Chicago may buy back if the contract is secured. The price cited matches the city’s previously quoted selling price.
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Chicago
WA Julian
Chicago Refning Company
Illinois Refining Company
Mr. Julian
Laborer suffers broken ribs in viaduct accident on Eastern avenue
Nick Bill aged 22 a laborer from Spencer House fell while wheeling a barrel of crushed stone on the Rookwood viaduct on Eastern avenue yesterday. He sustained several fractured ribs and severe bruises and was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
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Rookwood
Eastern Avenue
Nick Bill
Spencer House
City Hospital
City Council Approves High Pressure Water Bonds and More
Council voted to append 190000 for downtown high pressure water system upgrades and moved bond dates to January 2. It approved 21000 Means East Pavilion East Court Camargo Pike Thill Thirteenth Rice Jefferson bond ordinances 4000 for Police Station 3600 for Kates Place extension and a 206 tax levy. Hospital bonds were awarded as final readings proceed. Hughes High School civics class attended.
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Union Depot
Cincinnati
Means
East Pavilion Street
East Court Street
Camargo Pike
Thill Street
Thirteenth Street
Rice Street
Jefferson
Hughes High School
Parole Granted to 180 Convicts by Thanksgiving
The Western Penitentiary parole board approved 180 convict releases under the new law. Each prisoner will receive an outfit including suit hat shoes underwear and a necktie plus ten dollars. They are freed to spend Thanksgiving as they wish.
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Western Penitentiary
Americas
Pittsburg
Prison Board of Parole
The
Dayton Wants Col Goethels Day
Dayton Ohio November 18 Colonel George W Goethels builder of the Panama canal may accept a salary offer. President Wilson also to grant necessary leave of absence. The mission would require his acceptance of the offer.
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Sportalso
Amatiedt
Dayton
Ohio
George W. Goethels
Panama
Wison Ban
Goethels
Cleves Dry Debate Brings Clergy and Patrons Together
Clergy and patrons facing license renewal denial join to campaign for a petition under the Rose law to vote Cleves dry. Despite opposing aims, both sides unite for a common objective.
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Cleves
Thieves Raid Office of Automatic Machine Company
Thieves entered via an unlocked rear window Monday night and forced a desk lock to take stamps totaling 2.75 dollars. An attempt to break the safe failed when the knob was knocked off. the thieves fled with a small cash loot.
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Automatic Machine Company
Real estate dealer urged to shoot partner in Shreveport
In Shreveport Louisiana on November 18 Henry Littie a real estate dealer shot his partner J Van Cleave Litties wife stood behind him urging him to shoot Van Cleave and avenge an alleged insult.
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Shreveport
Henry Littie
J. van Cleave
Littie
van Cleavey
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Iceland
George B. ‘Twitchell
Gussie Ogden
Cora. Brooks Shroyer
Mary C. Sherwood
Sinton Auditorium
Sinton
Joan of Arc
Upton
Littleford
Italy
Reqist
Mes
the State Civil Service Commission
Found Liquor
MR. Henry Peck
Weu
Henry JR
Mothes
Ener
Wats
Apelcer
Julian
Kates Place
Audubon
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