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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
10
One Hundred and Fifty Net and Messaline waists and silken petticoats in white and pastel tones are offered alongside hundreds of coats in new models at deep reductions. Menswear style dresses and gowns including Messaline and satin pieces are marked down to $12.50 to $39.50, with imported gowns from $100 to $500 at half price.
Representative Edgar Ervin of Pom eroy Meigs county visits Cincinnati to court Republican members for speaker pro tem and floor leader. He held talks with Charles Taft and outlines geographic support. Harmon prospects and Democratic moves in Ohio politics are noted amid upcoming public job discussions.
Plans for the dedication of the Hubbard tract police station on Price Hill are complete. The event features music speeches and a banquet in the evening with familiar community leaders attendees and plans for a small take home package for drivers and delivery staff.
The Santa Claus fund in Cincinnati expands with donations of money and toys after the Chamber of Commerce hosts the drive. The Lyric theater event auction on December 18 aims to maximize gifts, while the First Regiment contributes for December 19 proceeds to the fund.
Postmaster Monfort sends formal Washington recommendation to cut Norwood mail dispatches from eight to six due to city council refusal to grant switching facilities. Local business firms favored keeping eight dispatches, but officials overruled.
Fragmentary note describes Christmas season timing and gifts in early day work context. Mentions serving others and contributing to holiday spirit through duties and gifts.
Judge James B. Swing ruled that the Vine Street Congregational church majority can sell the property for 75 000 despite minority opposition. The decision cites Ohio precedent that local congregations govern church affairs. The case moves toward a supreme court on merits with sale proponents Burch Johnson and Ja Alexander and opponents Morse Tuttle Harper H Fulton. Colonel Ike Martin says he has option and lease on the site for a vaudeville and moving picture theater.
John Seipel 44 a longtime county recorder office clerk shot himself kneeling at his mother's grave in the German Protestant Cemetery on Churchill Street Walnut Hills shortly after noon. Two witnesses reported the act and he died at Bethesda Hospital. Despondency over his mother's death is given as the motive. He leaves a widow and a 16 year old daughter. He had declined a higher paying post two weeks earlier, preferring his county job. He was respected as faithful and diligent in his fourteen years of service.
Ernest Travis, 40, shot Viola Smith, 25, in her residence at 132 it alley yesterday morning, then fired two bullets into his own left breast. Both victims are colored. Constable Joseph disarmed Travis and he is charged with shooting to kill. Travis is expected to die. Viola Smith will recover. Mrs. Travis had sought refuge at the Smith home after a quarrel.
John McLaughlin a 28 year old brakeman of 48 Oak Street Ludlow fell forty feet from a trestle on the Cincinnati line while riding a moving train yesterday morning. He suffered internal injuries and numerous cuts and bruises. J J Sullivan's ambulance took him to the city hospital.
The readable text offers no coherent news event or names to summarize. It appears as stray notes about beer shopping and time references without a definite subject or outcome.
Two men, heavily armed, drift along the Ohio River on a dull houseboat after breaking jail in Moscow Ohio early yesterday. Authorities chase the fugitives who are accused of stealing from the C Crane Lumber Company of Cincinnati in Moscow.
Early yesterday morning Patrolmen Currin and Knight arrested Frank Klennisch, 27, of Norwood, an amateur detective. He led them to saloons claimed to be open after hours, which were found shut. Thinking he intended to harm them, they took Klennisch into custody.
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