Woman Accused of Mail Frauds in Matrimonial Bureau Case
Mrs. Oscar Wells operated a Cincinnati matrimonial bureau under R. c Evans and faced a U S Commissioner hearing for using the mails fraudulently. She defended herself, said she was urged by her husband, and requested trial by grand jury with bail set at 600 dollars. Her husband Oscar Wells was arrested on the same charge. her sister Roxie Evans was taken for guardianship.
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Oscar Wells
R. c Evans
United States
Adler
Charles Sparks
Squire Dumont
Ralph Caldwell
Mrs. Wells
Chicago
Cincinnati
Welle
Nvedlock
Holmes
Mat
Jennie Cobham
Kissich
Wells
Seventh Street
Moulinier
Roxie Evans
Marshal Fagin
Louisa
Kentucky
Hammond
Ind
Cincinnati Tablet To Commemorate City Incorporation
The Municipal Art Society of Cincinnati plans to present a commemorative tablet for City Hall marking the 1902 incorporation anniversary. Made by Bookmead Lottery Co and Rookwood Pottery, the 20 by 30 inch green tablet features incised lettering and will be accepted by the Mayor in an informal ceremony. The society also offers to fund half the cost to beautify a district school wall with artistic decoration.
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Cincinnati
Municipal Art Society
J . Fidischmann
Society
Rookwood Pottery Company
Art Society
W. P. McDonald
City OF
Anno Domini McCccit
Municipal Art Society of Cincinnati
Bookmead Lottery, Company
Board of Education
Comedy Club preps secret modern play for benefit show
The University Comedy Club assigns roles for a new humorous work by a noted modern playwright to be staged at McMicken Hall after holidays to raise funds for athletics. Stuart A. Walker directs the production, replacing a previously planned Goldsmith piece.
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Comedy Club
Goldsmith
Wright
Stuart A. Walker
McMicken Hall
Athletic Fund
Varsity Folk
Lord High
Fire Door Club
Eustace H. Ball
Willie Kirkpatrick
Dale Ebersole
Albert Baker
Paul Richardson
Carl Gantvoort
Young Ladies’ Literary Society
Maurice Hewlett
Anna Bird Stewart
Eben Kiely
Edith Wharton
University Chemists’ Club
Hanna Hall
Arthur Lowenstein
Dental Department
W. 8. Locke
Two stabbing affrays on Griffin Street
Two stabbing affrays occurred on Griffin Street yesterday around 1 p.m. Adam Downs, 22 Griffin Street, quarreled with Leonard Stanley over money. Downs was stabbed in the left breast and fled. Stanley fled after the assault and the wound was dressed at City Hospital. A second incident involved a Black man named Jerry who demanded a dime from Herbert Higgins of Griffin Street. Jerry knocked Higgins down and stabbed him in the left breast near Second and Broadway before Higgins escaped.
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Giffin Street
Adam Downs
Leonard Stanley
Stanley
City Hospstel
Jerry
Herbert Higgins
Giffin ‘Street
Higgins
Second
Broadway
Hagee’s Coraline Tonic Promises Strength for Children
A faded ad claim touts Hagee’s Coral Aver OU as a tonic to restore vigor in weak emaciated children. It asserts the product can create new tissue and vitality without greasy flavor and promises to make any child hearty and strong.
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Hagee
Bookkeeper Burned in Varnish Tank Explosion at Plant
Thomas Sinclair, bookkeeper for John Pfaff Varnish and Stain Company, suffered severe burns when a boiling varnish tank exploded at 1669 Central avenue. Firemen contained the blaze with $600 loss. Sinclair declined hospital, living at 1519 Providence street. Also, Cassilly Adams, artist, lost all paintings and furniture when a heater fire gutted Miller Flat Building rooms at Chase and Hamilton avenues. $180 in furniture loss, building insured for $150.
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Thomas Sinclair
John Pfaff Varnish and Stain Company
Central Avenue
Sinclair
Patrol 6
Providence ‘Street
Cassilly Adams
Miller Flat
Chase and
Hamilton Avenues
Two suits filed in court over bank defalcation tale
Two suits filed in Squire Winkter court recount the defalcation of Frank Brown once head bookkeeper of the German National Bank of Newport. Marian Smith and her husband Wilbert Smith are defendants in actions by Household Money Company on two promissory notes for loans dated April 27, 1901 totaling 42 dollars, with an attachment and furniture taken from Ezekiel and Bernheim. Marian Smith and Wilbert Smith are now in New Orleans.
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Squire Winkter
Frank Brown
Germian National Bank of Newport
Marian Smith
Brown
Honduras
Wilbert C. Smith
Household’ Money’ Company
Ezekiel & Bernheim
Constable Williams
New Orleans
Robbery on Highland Avenue near Oak Street
Vernonville resident Mise h Moore was attacked by a short slim white man about 35 at dusk on Highland avenue near Oak street. He snatched her purse containing $5 and fled. She reported the robbery to police.
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Mise H Moore
Linten Street
Vernonvaille
Highland Avenue
Oak Street
Reverend W F O Rourke dies beloved Catholic pastor
Rev W F O Rourke of Holy Angels Church dies yesterday morning at 5. He spent his priesthood in Ohio Indiana and Fulton and served twenty years as pastor at Holy Angels. Funeral will be next Wednesday at 9 30 AM.
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W. F. O'Rourke
Holy Angels Church
Father O'Rourke
Pennsylvania
Mt. Vernon
Boulger
Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary
Rosecrans
Sidney
Dayton
Milford
Middletown
Notre Dame
Ind
Church of the Holy Angels
Fulton
Trustees Favor Entire New City Hospital on Hilltop
Cincinnati Hospital Trustees push for a new city hospital with bonds up to 100000, seeking a Clifton avenue site near Barnet Woods for air and proximity to two leading medical schools. The plan calls for open bidding, possible property condemnation, and major overhaul of the old hospital while improvements proceed at the Branch Hospital for Consumptives.
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Board of Legislaion
City of
Cincinnati
City Hospital
Barnet Woods
Clifton Avenue
Calhoun Street
Branch Hospital
Holmes
Fleischmann
Frank Fechter
Price Hill
Theospital
Fechter
Corporation counsel opines on bond burn and bath house
The Board of Public Service will burn about 350 000 dollars in bonds that previously stalled after a Supreme Court decision. The event includes bonds tied to the Harrison avenue viaduct project and a plan to remove grade crossings. Also discussed are funds to convert Bremen Street Police Station into a bath house and the Longworth act implications.
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Board of Public’ Service
Iway
Supreme Court
Harrison Avenue
J. Howard Breen
Pennsylvania Railroad
Board of Public Service
Bremen Street
Ohio Valley Improvement group backs river project pledge
The Cincinnati delegates Albert Bettinger and E B Wilson returned from Washington saying President Roosevelt is in accord with their aims. They thanked the President for his kindness after his September 20 speech in the city and pledged to use the powers of the President to advance Ohio River improvement immediately.
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Albert Bettinger
E. B. Wilson
Cincinnat
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Roosevelt
Washington
Bettinger
Ent
Lee
Caltech
Ohio
Foreman Shoe Company Adjudged Bankrupt
The Foreman Shoe Company of this city was yesterday regularly adjudged bankrupt by a United States Court after being forced into bankruptcy weeks earlier by its creditors.
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Foreman. Co
Foreman Shoe Company
United States
Traction Company Plans Route Change in Price Hill Area
Local groups in Price Hill including the Price Hill Business Men’s Club and Improvement Association met at Library Hall to discuss a traction move. The plan calls for removing War saw avenue tracks and rebuilding Glenway avenue to Grand then Warsaw to end of line, creating a safer route with widened Warsaw avenue and improved paving. A joint Streets Committee will work with the Board of Public Service, and the Library Committee will consult on Carnegie library branch location.
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Price Hill, Business Men's Club
West Price Hill
Glenway
Traction Company
Price Hill
Warsaw Avenue
Board of Public Service
Library
Cincinnati Library Committee
Andrew Carnegie
Lytle Post No 4 G A R Elects Officers
William H. Lytle Post No. 4 G A R elected Fred Skotter as Commander Fred Lutsior Vice Commander Jacob Rupp Surgeon EB McLeod Chaplain Anthony Theising Quartermaster John Gelert Officer of the Day Fred Benet Officer of the Guard I Hochenheitner Henry Lach Frank Schwarb delegates and J A ae Cc Di Hildwelm W F McCready as alternates. A tooth and mouth wash by Boro-Formalin TM (Eimer & Amend) is noted as leaving the mouth sweet and pure.
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William H. Lytle
Fred Skotter
Fred Luts
Ior
Jacob Rupp
McLeod
Anthony ‘Theising
Fred Wender
John Gelert
Fred Benet
I. Hochenheitner
Henry Lach
Frank Schwarb
Decay of Religion by Prof Ira Howerth at Ohio Mechanics Institute
Prof Ira Howerth spoke last night at the Ohio Mechanics Institute on the decay of religion. He argued religion is the root of all beliefs, restraint as its essence, and that morality does not define religion. He asserted religion arises from inherent human nature and is not tied to specific beliefs or one people.
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Ira Howerth
Ohio Mechanics’ Institute
Dr. Chalmers
Deems
Tylor
Coroner to Investigate Death of Retired Soldier
Edwin Preston a retired United States soldier living at 310 Broadway was found dead yesterday afternoon from an apparent opium poisoning. He was taken to the hospital by patrol officers and died about an hour later. Coroner Behwab will hold an inquest after an autopsy to determine if an overdose caused the death.
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Will
Edwin Preston
United States
Broadway
Ure Hospital
Behwab
Roti
Preston
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Dentists
Hood
Thomas “Sinclair
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O'Rourke
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Wall
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Ite
the Corporation
B. OF P.S
Glenway Avenue
Lytle
Eimer & Amend
Wilshire’s Magazine
Inshire's
Agez
Julian Hawthorne
Jane Addams & Hull House
Virchow& Zola
H.mimynerian
Havelock Ellis
Baer
By Eraste Vidrine
NEW Publication
Little Saint
Charles
Frederic Goss
David Carson
Virginia Keep
Sunshine
I2mo
the Bowen-Merrill Company, Publishers
Indianapolis
King’s, Corner
King’s Corner
He Jo Fine Company
Prof. Howerth
Lowney
OwNeys Chocolate
Bbc
Leowney
Earl& Wilson
Fiew
Wight
Chet Office
N. W. Cor
Fourth & Vine Sts. Ly
Mississippi' River
DR. Burkhart
Irty Aera
Harry Goldblatt
TION
Séca
Denters
Pe Ons
Pasek Vod
Harry
Goldblatt
Frisco System
Qzark M
Eureka Springs
THE
Crescent Hotel
BE. E. Sumner
Abe
Passenger Traffic Department
Aint Louis
New York City
WM. M. Bates
B.L. M. Bates
Erital
New York
HOTEL
Normandie
Washington, D.c
N. W
McPherson Square
National Ice and Fuel Co
the National Ice and Fuel Company
Telephone West
Dayton and McKean Avenue
Edward C. Pistner
Louisville & Nashville
R. R
Ree Ae Coast Senate
Gov, Ltd
Vine
Bushs
Ce Cincinnat
Grand Oe Oelehebelps & Havlin
Matinee
LE Oear
Annie
Russell
Clyde Fity
Anage Charles Frohman
I Hota
Lyceum
Harry Williams
Imperials
Matinee Daily
Irwin
the Marvel
Pike Baia
Shakespeare
Sardon
Columbia
Falkepont & Co
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Fulgora
Leonard Fletcher
Kathryn Hayes
Florets
Werk
Williams
Walker
Eva
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