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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1909
Page
12
Cincinnati interest grows as Mrs. Bellamy Storer’s works on Fifth Avenue are shown to aid the Saranac Lake TB colony led by Dr. Trudeau. Her son Dr. Nichols assists, with a Sanatorium and laboratory founded to study tuberculosis.
A six story Stock holm hotel at 56 Chicago avenue saw guests overcome by smoke and carried to the street as firemen and police evacuated them. The blaze started in a first floor restaurant and smoke filled the building before the fire was extinguished and losses were reported as small.
In Detroit on June 1 a fire forced 350 of 900 pupils to flee from the second floor of St. Casimir's School at Twenty third and Myrtle, with the building evacuated via stairs and fire escapes. The total loss was about $5,000.
Johann Othberg a 48 year old shoemaker formerly of Germany was found dead in the Walnut Hills home of Mrs Helen Henke at 2408 Cope Jang Avenue. He allegedly died by inhaling gas from a rubber pipe connected to a gas jet. A suicide note stated he could not find work in America and requested his death be considered natural by Germany.
Dispatch from Milton reports at the Federation of Catholic Societies annual convention Columbus chosen for next session. Officers elected include president and treasurer with names such as John Golumbi and Obie noted among diocesan leaders. Local details remain fragmentary from the June 1 dispatch.
Special Dispatch reports the Columbus News Co. incorporated by 28 prominent Democrats to acquire W. P. Harrison’s stake in the Press Post, Ohio’s Democratic organ. Capital $10,000, option from Harrison, plan to raise to $250,000 and shift the title to Columbus News. Numerous party figures named as incorporators and backers.
Students from Madame Tecla Vigna's class performed at the Auditorium with Miss Norma Helmig delivering a Rossini aria and Douglas Powell's student James Harr od radiating in Puccini and Gounod pieces. The program included arias from Seme, La Bohème, and Romeo and Juliet with accompanying duets and waltz songs.
The article lists new nominees received in Ward 5 with names such as Miss Johanna Reichel and Miss Muriel Kelley, detailing their nominators and endorsers. It also provides tallies of ballots received up to a Tuesday morning in June 1909, including a long roll of voters and addresses across multiple wards and counties.
Readable segments list Hamilton County Ohio townships and communities including Glancing entries such as Green Township Mount Healthy Madisonville Norwood Reading Union Symmes Sycamore and others with damaged text and mis-spellings. The fragmentary item appears to catalog jurisdictions and localities within the county.
Washington judge distinguishes express malice needed for criminal cases from implied malice in civil actions. Testimony covers editorials on Panama Canal affair and whether a publisher can be held liable without direct knowledge. Proceedings may continue with further evidence and closing arguments expected tomorrow.
State’s highest judicial body releases findings on numerous appeals and motions. Includes actions in McLaugh Bros v Ceneens, Jacobs v Wellston Iron Co, and numerous advance and rehearing rulings across Hamilton, Allen, and Franklin counties.
New York June 1 Rev Dr Alina Shaw, national president of the Woman's Suffrage alliance, arrived from Europe aboard the Minnetonka. Mrs Belmont wife of William K Vanderbilt and mother of the Duchess of Marlborough, has become a thorough convert and may fund the suffrage cause with her charity though exact plans are undecided.
Chicago dispatch reports Robert T. Lincoln returning home after illness at the Lincoln monument in Hodgenville Kentucky. He said exposure to the sun caused him to feel heated and weak but he was not overcome and felt fine shortly after leaving the platform.
Henry Wilenborg senior partner of Willenborg & Son, 907 West Pear Street Newport, died at home yesterday from heart failure after falling ill Monday. A German immigrant born September 8, 1840, he built a 25 year business in clothing and goods. Survived by one son, a widow, and a sister. funeral at Immaculate Conception Church Newport.
Paris reports multiple telegraph and telephone lines cut following a circular issued by an anarchist organization. Police confirm the vandalism as retaliatory acts tied to the circular.
At the State Fire Marshals Association of America annual meeting in Louisville, General W. B. Rogers of Ohio proposed a cross state exchange of photographs and descriptions to convict itinerant arsonists. He noted that the most dangerous arsonist buys property, insures it high, and moves on to another town. Representatives from Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Maryland, West Virginia, Nebraska, South Carolina, Mississippi and Manitoba attended, all under Ohio fire marshal law.
A marriage license was denied in Columbus Ohio on June 1 because the couple were first cousins. George W Tyler aged 67 a druggist from Paw Paw Michigan and Josephine Adams aged 63 were set to wed.
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