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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1908
Page
2
Cincinnati and Evanston prepare for Independence Day with picnics, dinners, and patriotic programs. Police warn against explosive devices and blank cartridges, and hospitals arrange care for injuries. Evanston aims for a full day of events at Oesper park with games, band concerts, and rides.
A Cincinnati circuit court upheld a $3,500 verdict for Angie Cramer against Cincinnati Traction for injuries from a grease slick on Sixth and Vine rails. The court ordered new trials in several related cases, including Emma De Garmo’s 1904 injury and the Carthage pike improvement dispute, while denying others. The opinions discuss settlements, receipts, and negligence in trolley and wagon accidents, with multiple attorneys listed for both sides.
The record lists cases in Superior Court and Police Court. Alexander C. Green sues Sid Black Automobile Co for 5000 damages over a June 5 incident. Grace Ravenscraft seeks 10000 for death of Albert Ravenscraft in Newport. Katherine Ainsworth seeks alimony in a Barkers Reserve case. numerous notices and minor suits detail divorces, estates, and police court violations with various defendants and amounts.
An elderly user recalls suffering nervous issues and dyspepsia until switching from tea and coffee to Postum. She notes improved brain and nerve power, stomach comfort, and urges others to try Postum, claiming it helped her husband as well. The letter references the famous Road to Wellville and mentions product packaging.
The Refuge home hosts a 4th of July programme starting at 3 PM with O J Renner as speaker. E W Wilkinson and Rev E R Wagner oversee school awards and services, songs, recitations, and patriotic selections by the First Intermediate and Kindergarten groups. Tomorrow sees more festivities with campus athletics and a watermelon feast ending with fireworks.
Districts around the city schedule Fourth of July festivities with open-air events. Bond Hill hosts a community follifica tion with addresses by prominent residents. Millcreek valley towns plan Homecoming Day with field events and fireworks. Klopper burgers and Kennedy Heights residents anticipate flags and refreshments as parades and park openings unfold. Weatherman Bassler forecasts a cool, ideal Fourth with no rain.
Captain rejects superstition linking Fourth of July rain to explosive firing. He argues rain is not caused by gunfire and promises to be prudent and truthful in future statements.
Kansas City, July 8. The Fourth of July toll began with the death of Thelma A Hogan 26 from lockjaw after a toy pistol discharge while her 6 year old son Wilbur used blanks. His attempted cleaning caused a misfire. Another child George Marcum 10 shot his finger with a blank cartridge and died of tetanus later today.
Advices from Rayon report Francisco Martinez and his wife severely burned when while making firecrackers the powder ignited by ashes from his cigarette exploded, burning their house and cremating their two infant children. The wife’s life is despaired of.
Joseph Stanway, 18, dies from lockjaw suffered from a small finger wound two weeks earlier caused by a blank cartridge. This marks the second similar death in Elmira within a week.
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune notes a fatal pistol incident in Hamilton C on July 3 following a incident reported a week earlier. Police investigations continue.
Woodward park in Cincinnati, donated by J C Noyes, was dedicated with a large Fourth of July event by the Avondale Improvement Association. Four thousand parade participants marched from Rockdale Avenue and Reading Road to the park, featuring a Refuge Home Cadet band concert, remarks by Acting Mayor John W Galvin and Rabbi David Phil pson, a big fireworks display, and decorations of red white and blue.
Officials report a growing tally of Fourth of July injuries at the city hospital as accidents mount daily. The number of victims admitted this year exceeds prior totals, with several cases under treatment and improving conditions noted.
In Battle Creek Michigan Kynette Cole aged 10 died from lockjaw after a toy pistol wound suffered last Sunday. This marks the second such fatality in a week in the city.
Mrs Dell Meixell a Grand Rapids balloonist was severely injured near Lowell Michigan during a Fourth of July ascent. Her body caught in high tension wires as the balloon rose and she was shocked burned and dropped to the ground before power could be shut off. Her husband and son are aeronauts and she had made many ascensions in Western Michigan.
In Big Stone Gap Virginia on July 3 Edward Cox a local farmer died in a balloon ascent accident. His feet became entangled in the parachute ropes lifting him into the air before he fell to his death.
Six cases were treated at the hospital yesterday bringing the total to twenty seven in the Ann street receiving ward. Sherman Wood age 10 Louis Wiedeman age 24 and Joseph Gildae age 14 each shot themselves in the hand with blanks. A hand of Dean age 12 was lacerated when a cannon cracker exploded. William Loring age 20 was struck on the thigh while a giant cracker exploded beneath a can. Rudolph Linehardt age 21 was badly torn holding a giant fire cracker and was sent to a ward.
Horace Webster 98 Nas sau street attacked Aaron Mallory 22 112 Lincoln avenue Walnut Hills with teeth and a knife during a confrontation over loading cin ders at Hill Top Laundry Gilbert and Florence avenues. Mallory taken to city hospital by Patrol 7. Webster and Mallory detained by Patrolmen McNally and Batschear.
The Norwood Democratic club outing held with the Norwood Democratic advisory board in Carthage yesterday drew thousands of residents and families. The day featured sports and fireworks with good cheer and no disorder, emphasizing citizenship over politics.
The ad promotes staying cool with lightweight undergarments and outerwear including skeleton or half-lined coats and Serge or Flannel trousers. It notes underwear from cobweb to feather weight, plus straw hats in various weights and weaves, and promises suitable items with complete pricing.
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