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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
5
The Flower Mission of Christ Church hosts a cake sale Friday and Saturday in the vacant Hotel Gibson storeroom to aid convalescent children and hospitals. The item list includes agizines flowers and fruit.
Travel guidance advertises a daylight route to California via Burlington Cincinnati to Denver and Colorado Springs then Yosemite and Salt Lake City. It promotes Great Northern Pacific steamships from San Francisco to Portland and back via Glacier Yellowstone or Rocky Mountain parks. Contact L. Sengeredt City Pass Agent Cincinnati for free planning materials and trip design.
The Price Hill History Club entertained at the hospitable home of Mrs. Harry Oyler on Glenway avenue. The program featured musical items of the month including Cincinnati composers, piano solos, vocal and trio numbers. Dainty refreshments followed, with a club outing planned for June 7.
At Burnet House meeting on Tuesday evening the West End Political Equality League names committees including Ward Organization led by Dr Louise Eastman and Mrs Schmitter and Press headed by Mrs G B Twitchell. Other groups cover Woman's City Club Mothers' Clubs Washington Work Columbus' Work City Council School Board Board of Health Juvenile Court with appointed leaders.
Mrs F J Brunner, retiring Treasurer of the Woman's Press Club, hosts a Saturday garden party at her Wardell avenue Westwood home. Mrs Emma B Wulff, president, directs the program with performances by Mrs Clara Keck Heflebower singing Fate and a Lullaby by Mrs Lorena Schellenbach, followed by members who wrote the May meeting's second story chapter.
International fashion notes describe a navy serge and georgette crepe ensemble with a peasant basque and fichu collar. In a separate item Recording Secretary details the Executive Guard, listing prominent women and a $100 fundraising pledge per member for districting and a June outing at Coney Island, with Mayor Puchtga and Rabbi Caplan invited to speak.
Mrs. Lara M. Cobb reads letters from nonresident members while Miss Hammell recites a poem by her mother Mrs S B Hammel. University students perform folk dances including The Black Nag Hit and Miss Tide's Well Rusty Tufty and more with veranda or house contingency if rain.
Generous women in Cincinnati form a branch of the Woman's Proclamation Day Committee and save 25 cents weekly from house funds to send to the Central Committee of New York for Jewish war sufferers relief. Ohio contributions reach nearly $15,000 to date. The Cincinnati group is led by Mrs Henry Sternberger and officers Mrs J Gradison, Vice President, Mrs Harry A Sommerfield, Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs Dr S J Goldberg.
The Norwood Art Club plans a trip to Crystal Springs on Monday June 5. Members meet at 10 a.m. at St. Francis de Sales Church Woodburn avenue to carpool and elect officers.
Daily reports suggest birds show remarkable tameness toward humans. Dr. Eugene Swope of the National Audubon Society notes wild creatures recognize kindness and respond, with robins and thrashers approaching closely, and wood thrushes nesting near homes. The behavior benefits both birds and people.
A petition for a charter for the Gyro Club of Cincinnati is sent to Cleveland headquarters. Petitioners include E. W. Jewell John D. Jewell Bruce Brown Stanley Allen Lee Shepard Robert Morrison W. Webb Hill and others. The club name derives from the gyroscope symbolizing balance and motion.
William Z Coffey, 23, of Columbia Kentucky, was sentenced to one year in the Workhouse after a Lexington girl, sixteen, testified he had brought her to the city in April and lived with her as husband and wife at 228 West Eighth Street, then took her five dollar weekly earnings from a department store.
Benjamin Weas aged 52 a restaurant keeper of 1810 Race Street remained unconscious in General Hospital yesterday his condition described as critical. Mr and Mrs Elizabeth Nelson were held on suspicion at Central station.
A critical essay argues that mothers should stop surveilling daughters and let them grow autonomous. It cites Alma, a 20 year old New Jersey girl, to challenge parental overprotection, urging girls to guard themselves and rely on their own judgment rather than constant watching.
A physician argues the hand mirrors intellect and health, detailing how dexterity reflects learning and sensation. He cites palmistry marks, the Bertillon method, and urges hands-on education while outlining dietary tips and remedies for age related joints and common colds.
In New York, Miss Sonnet, a nurse under the Braithwaites, seeks to join French hospital service as Harriet Braithwaite rushes to secure nurses for Edwin before a late voyage. The narrator weighs duty versus personal concern as family dynamics unfold and Jack Bickett’s connection lingers.
A guidance note recommends regular door exercises as essential to relieve constipation. It suggests long sleep, ten to twelve hours in a ventilated room, and a diet rich in green vegetables like spinach and watercress, young peas, rice, sour apples, and salads with oil.
A drink habit fuels over half of divorce cases in court. The Neal Treatment offers a safe vegetable method that ends cravings in three days without injections. It aims to sober husbands so families gain financially and emotionally. Neal Institute addresses and phone provided for Cincinnati and other cities.
Emma King, 44, of York Street, admitted embezzling 387 dollars as Scribe of Morris Tribe of Ben Hur. Judge Caldwell gave a suspended sentence to the penitentiary on her attorney Homer Durand’s plea. She swooned in court and received medical aid before being taken home by friends. Her husband, John King, is a brass finisher.
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