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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
8
Fall and winter stock offered at record low prices across carpets and rugs. Elegant tapestries and velvets with matching borders, axminster carpets and room size rug values promoted with deep discounts from 1-3 to 1-10 below usual. Special body brussels rugs listed at $18.90 to $22.00.
Complete display of Persian Turkish and Caucasian rugs presented by a native Armenian expert. Learn the manufacturing story after years of labor while viewing Royal Kermanshah Sarak meshed Bokhara Serapi Beluchistan and more. Prices always the lowest from 1.50 to 750.00 according to make and size.
The body of Dr. Joseph Eichberg is to be laid to rest at 11 in the United Jewish Cemetery chapel with a gathering at 10 at the Eichberg home 619 Oak Street Avon dale before the funeral cortege proceeds to the cemetery. Miami Medical College faculty held memorial resolutions and named honorary pallbearers while active pallbearers and Dr Deutsch will officiate. The college will drape in memory and remain closed all day Friday. The funeral party arrived in Cincinnati yesterday morning and Mrs Eichberg is prostrated. The Academy of Medicine plans a special meeting Monday to honor the deceased.
In a letter to the Service Board W E Shields and neighbors on Burnet avenue demand restoration of a torn up street and wood block paving. The board directs a reply explaining the contractor lacks wood blocks from an Indianapolis firm and states the tracks issue will be raised with the traction company.
The International Association of Railway Blacksmiths, meeting in Cincinnati, elected officers for the year and chose Niagara Falls as the next gathering site. President J W Russell Renova Pa First Vice President G W Kelly Elizabeth N J Second Vice President John Connors Montgomery Ala Secretary Treasurer A L Woodworth Lima Ohio Chemist G H Williams Boston Mass The women’s auxiliary, led by President Mrs Williams Boston, also named officers.
In Higginsport Ohio Mayor Kilpatrick had Purdem arrested after a judge dismissed assault and battery charges. Marshal Cahill pursued Purdem through the Police Court causing a disturbance as Purdem eluded him for several minutes before being grabbed in the hallway.
The article outlines differences in affidavits related to a whisky dispute. Key witnesses describe various transactions and intent, clarifying ownership and control over the contested stock.
A federal hearing featured affidavits from Washington experts and local academics arguing that neutral spirits differ from whisky and aging in charred barrels. The case, tied to fraud controls on liquor, faced witnesses from the U S Department of Justice and the U S Pharmacopoeia as evidence mounted.
United States Deputy Marshal Sander son served at the home of E. C. Harding the missing Secretary of Milford Home Building Company in a formality for adjudging Harding bankrupt. His whereabouts remain unknown and friends suspect possible self harm. Harding recently had James A. Collins cash a $25 check, fueling speculation beyond the $8,000 sum involved.
Alice Parmelee sues Harry Parmelee for divorce alleging neglect and repeated violent acts, with arrest records cited. Jessie Lehmkuhl seeks divorce from Bernard J. Lehmkuhl after alleged striking in 1904. Rachael Fagin Hill requests divorce from Homer J. Hill and restoration of her maiden name following a 1903 marriage and 1904 separation.
In probate filings Myrtle Sewell left her entire estate to her mother Mary F Manning who is named executrix. Applications to administer estates include Manning for Sewell's $1 000 estate Gais for Ignatz Wondrack's $4 500 estate Fledderjohn for Spanhoff's $600 estate.
The funeral of Harry L Frank will be held this afternoon at the chapel in United Jewish Cemetery. Messages of sympathy come from Montana business men. Pallbearers include Governor Spriggs Louis Frank A W Goldsmith Jr Herbert Walter Jesse Silverman Louis Heineman Jamestown N Y and Simon Silverman Gallipolis O. Rev Maurice Feuerlicht Indianapolis will preach the sermon.
The Service Board appoints Charles J. Freel as assistant in charge of Insurance matters. The Workhouse handles damages and settlement options from fire. The City Solicitor will decide legality of cash payment versus rebuilding. Frank Van Loo seeks petition forms for a Park Commission ballot and Harrison Avenue Viaduct rental hearings are set for Monday at 10 30 with protestors to be heard.
An auto driven by H R Carland skidded on wet pavement at Fourth and Walnut Streets. To avoid a woman, the driver swerved toward the sidewalk and struck a mailbox, demolishing it and narrowly preventing injuries as bystanders scattered.
The Turnbull Wagon Company of Defiance began proceedings to reclaim a consignment of dumping machines sent to the Queen City Implement Company before it declared bankruptcy. Receiver David Scott resists returning the machines. Separate case: Jacob B. Couch was discharged after a Dayton counterfeit coin charge due to insufficient evidence. Commissioner Howell ordered release.
It was announced yesterday through C. B. Wright that the July interest on the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton first mortgage bonds will be paid. The funds are in J. P. Morgan's offices in Wall Street, New York. The Bondholders' Protective Committee, chaired by W. S. Rowe, will remain in existence with no further interest due until next January while plans for a railroad reorganization proceed toward completion.
Health Officer Brown will read a paper on The Roll of the Insects in the Causation of Disease at the annual meeting of Health Officers of Southern Ohio towns to be held in this city October 21 to 23.
The police say the removal of George alias William Davis to New Albany Indiana is a ruse and he will be released soon as the Los Angeles charge is weaker. Judge Swing says the first requisition was honored and the prisoner signaled return, so release follows. Millikin calls the act an outrage aided by Pinkerton detectives and National American Creditors Association. Davis had 3230 cash tied up by a New Albany attachment. Los Angeles detective Hosich vows re arrest if freed.
Miss Daisy Coalwell of 34 East Thirteenth Street learnedWednesday night her father Ebe nezer Coalwell intended to kill himself. He was an inmate at Soldiers' Home Dayton and cut his throat Wednesday night after sending a note and $30 wedding gift to his daughter. Coalwell served as a sergeant in the Forty seventh O V I L. He previously spoke of the Osler theory that a man is useless after 60.
John Murphy, 40, a gas inspector of 905 East McMillan Street, asked Maude Adams if she believed in fairies while at City Hospital. He was taken to the hospital yesterday in acute dementia, claiming he was surrounded by fighting fairies.
Frank Holt aged 16 a messenger of 1509 Pleasant Street was seriously injured last night after a Vine Clifton car struck his bicycle at the Eighth and Vine streets intersection. He was rendered unconscious and taken to City Hospital with a concussion and severe cuts and bruises.
Mrs Mary E Tebbe mother of Constable Ben Tebbe was buried yesterday from 749 West Fourth street. During the funeral, word reached the City Hospital that Frank Tebbe another son was dying there. He died at 8 PM after pneumonia developed following a period of illness.
Martin B. Henry of Savannah was discharged after arraignment on disorderly conduct for attacking a negro boy who refused a white woman’s seat on a Fifth Street car. Major Williams, the boy involved, was likewise allowed to go due to age. Knox and Clifford Williams were fined ten dollars and costs each. Knox was accused of drawing a knife during the melee.
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