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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
4
A column condemns a new Municipal Court Law in Cincinnati for concentrating power in a police judge, restricting access to process for the poor, and requiring costly attorney and filing fees. It urges the Supreme Court to strike down the measure as unconstitutional and oppressive to ordinary residents.
A garbled mosaic of quotes and bits from a New York scene. The notes echo social gossip and comic lines about marriage, fashion, sports, and city life with scattered attributions and stray phrases. The piece reads like a column of wry remarks and journal snatches.
A collage of clipped voices and captions quotes from the New York Herald and others. Entries include a satirical take on a Japanese European oriented cook and house worker, a mock declaration by Melinda Johnson, a racialized dialect exchange, and a joke about derby hats.
A playful survey of dances named after animals and a call to feature them at the zoo audience would enjoy. The piece lists several trendy moves such as the turkey trot monkey twist bunny hug and gorilla flop as possible entertainment.
The Cincinnati American states its Free Legal Department will answer readers questions by mail, with all party names kept confidential. It notes attorney John W. Cowell will provide opinions and explains notes and payments, elections, and affidavits for voter registration.
Department of Health answers questions on sanitation disease prevention in columns. Home remedies discussed but no medical prescriptions provided.
Notes on roaches as carriers show they pick up germs on legs and bodies and contaminate food. Guidance covers traps, borax-sugar poisons, plaster mix methods, and that roaches are less contagious than flies but still warrant control. Also includes medical Q and A on tubercular bone disease and suspected lumps with general advice.
M B Kendrick writes to the editor urging a national act to reduce prices by regulating packing houses and cold storage plants. He calls for date stamping on canned foods and a ban on selling aged goods to prevent price boosts, claiming stakes for consumers and merchants. He offers to debate the issue and back a claim that such laws could cut living costs by about 40 percent.
In St Louis Adolphus Busch who died in Germany Friday left a fortune valued around 75 million dollars. The will naming son August A Busch and son in law Edward A Faust as executors may be read after his funeral planned for October 25. The estate’s disposition remains to be clarified with charitable bequests anticipated.
The piece extols modern dances as essential counterweights to ease and indulgence, praising the health benefits of steps like the tango and fox trot while critiquing puritanical critics. It frames dance as the antidote to decadence and a promoter of virtue.
Julius Kruttschnitt argues that a future executive must convince others of value, excel at his work, and exceed peers. He notes honesty, trustworthiness, public understanding, and being an educator as essential traits for rising to high corporate ranks and earning a $50,000 annual salary.
The National City Bank of New York president stresses requirements for a $50,000 salary executive. He calls for sound imagination, judged restraint under stress, health, social skill, and the ability to select and inspire subordinates to build an organization.
The speaker, United States Steel Corp president James Farrell, says he cannot identify traits that earn a fifty thousand dollar salary and asserts the key requirement is simply to earn the money.
Theodore P. Shonts of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company asserts that a man must persuade others he deserves a fifty thousand dollar salary, after which the rest becomes easy.
Field Secretary Coles of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States visits Cincinnati to recruit 190 local members for the national group. The Cincinnati Chamber collaborates in the campaign and reports strong applications from local members.
The American invites amateur cartoonists to submit cartoons for its contest. All entries will be printed and prizes awarded to ten top cartoons. First prize ten dollars, then five, three, and seven one dollar prizes. Judges include Professor Charles, Millard Tyree, and Michael McDonald. Send cartoons to the Cartoon Editor.
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