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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1913
Page
2
New York on Oct 14 reports a plan to recruit 500 young officers from the Police Training School to police the upper West Side tenderloin. Commissioner Waldo backs the experiment as a radical shift, with 400 existing Fourth District officers reassigned. The force emphasizes clean service and targets a reform of perceived graft in the district.
An advertisement extols a painless dental method using nitrous oxide and oxygen gas. Dr Poole offers fillings crowns extractions and other in mouth procedures without pain with no obligation for examination and claims health benefits from good teeth. The notice cites fifth and central avenues and promotes a new system opposed to pain.
The statewide uproar focuses on Arthur Hodgins an 18 year old inmate in Arkansas penitentiary awaiting execution November 12 for killing a constable at Amity Clark County Public sentiment from clubs ministers and professionals drives protests. Gov G W Hays receives petitions from across the southwest as the stormy weather barely touches New York and the Polo Grounds.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst sails from Havre to New York aboard the Provence. She defends militant tactics as necessary for women's voting rights and criticizes Ellis Island actions against Marie Troydan. She says US lecture earnings will support the suffrage cause after expenses.
The body of Adolphus Busch who died in Germany is expected to reach St Louis around October 26. Cablegrams say the party plans to land in New York by October 24 after sailing from Bremen. Edward Faust notes the death was unexpected and the will details remain undisclosed to associates.
Hamburg American Cunard and White Star lines join Boston harbor authorities in a contract to build a large drydock to accommodate the biggest steamships. The carriers guarantee a minimum number of dockings in return.
The American Mining Congress plans its annual convention in Philadelphia October 20 25 at Horticultural Hall. Expected to draw over 2 000 leading mining men and visitors from across the country, the event will showcase safety efforts and mining industry progress in reducing mine deaths with demonstrations by a trained crew from the United States Bureau of Mines.
New York Oct 12 Dr Joseph A Blake the noted surgeon whose wife Katherine Ketcham Blake brought suit for separation in the Supreme Court Friday will fight the action He has retained an attorney The first fight in the suit will take place next Friday when a motion for alimony and counsel fees will be made by Mrs Blake s attorneys Attorneys Cornelius Sullivan will then appear on behalf of Dr Blake and will it is understood oppose the motion strenu ously
London a deed of trust announces Andrew Carnegie adds 2 million dollars to the Dunfermline trust. He notes prior gifts funded Moraried and organs and says demand for benefactions will ease as needs are met. Trustees are to decide future fund use and none of the funds may finance war research or military preparations.
Paris reports a surgical congress where Dr Calot unveiled a new approach to humpback and scoliosis. Building on Abbott’s insight, the method flexes the spine to create controlled distortion, gradually achieving hyper-correction with several treatments and minimal pain. France is home to more than 100,000 hunchbacks.
Seventy two thousand tobacco users petitioned the Public Service Commission to require smoking cars or compartments on New York City elevated and surface lines. The commission currently allows smoking only on open surface cars.
Paris reports a Russian Grand Duke Constantine wrote a play that the censor banned from public theaters. He sits on the censorship committee yet the work may only be shown behind closed doors before the imperial court while its fate is decided.
The Illinois State Bureau of Labor Statistics reports nearly 13 728 accidents in industrial fields last year with 589 fatalities. Of the dead, 183 were under the workers compensation act, 406 outside the act, including 190 railroad workers and 160 mine workers. Nonfatal cases totaled 760 under the act and 3 403 outside.
London hotel managers fear the English three month dog quarantine will deter American women from extended stays. They report many now base themselves in Paris to bring dogs into France, while London hotels anticipate revenue losses and increased smuggling attempts as sealed muzzles and strict rules raise costs for pet owners.
French President Poincare visiting Madrid declines a gala bullfight. An auto mishap near the royal hunting lodge injures a civil guard. King Alfonso witnesses, tends the guard, and arranges hospital transport. Poincare later sends a gold medal to the guard.
Florence, Oct 12 Mrs Harold F McCormick of Chicago daughter of John D Rockefeller has arrived from Parma with her daughter She will stay 10 days Met at the station by a deputation bearing the city ensign Station decorated with Italian flags and flowers Later the Mayor and city officials presented her an illuminated parchment granting honorary citizenship in appreciation of her gift of 11600 to the Verdi monument fund
In Pieniington M October 12 draft horse breeding in central Trabe tin continues to prosper despite rising truck use. Commercial trucks and farm tractors fail to curb draft work as seven of eight draft horses serve rural districts. Gasoline vehicles affect cities little, keeping draft horses in demand amid broader mechanical shift. The piece ends with a critique about a stingy man who forbids his boy from fishing.
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