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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
5
Robert Withers, 88, of the Princeton Hotel, swallowed a fish bone yesterday and required extraction at City Hospital. He was treated and released the same day.
A fine collection of portraits features the men who will compose the Ohio delegation to the Republican National Convention. The photographs, part of the magazine’s local section, include men from across the state who will shape the presidential candidate selection at the summer gathering.
The annual election of five Police Relief Association directors will be held Monday at multiple police stations. Members vote to fill five seats in the nonprofit body's board.
An evening of poems with instrumental and vocal music will be offered for the Central W C T U emergency fund in Cable Hall this evening.
Marguerite Cassidy age 19 of Bank and Baymiller streets and Gertrude Donnerwald age 14 of 515 Hopkins Street were arrested yesterday in Broadway. The Donnerwald girl said she and Cassidy slept in a wagon along the riverfront for two nights.
A young woman found in awful condition with scabies. Her body was a mass of sores from scratching. She tried many remedies for seven weeks, with discouraging results at City Mission.
A missionary caregiver details a dramatic recovery of a young woman with scabies and related ailments after using Cuticura Soap Resolvent and Ointment. The patient regained strength, found work, and moved to a better life within five weeks, with further improvement after another month. Leura dane Bates of New York endorses the treatment.
A Cassidy woman faces loitering charges while a girl is being held for Juvenile Court in an unspecified case. The report provides no further names, dates, or locations.
John McGregor, formerly a Gibson House clerk and most recently a clerk at the Imperial Hotel in New York City, has returned to Cincinnati and taken the position of clerk at the Sinton.
Cincinnati residents Walter McNair Harry Hurwitz and Joseph W Hall Jr have passed the state examination for chief pharmacists. Oscar Schaefer John W Tiff and Arthur W Kispert were admitted as assistant pharmacists.
John Kelley 43 of 516 West Front Street stepped into a plank crack at Augusta and John streets while carrying a plank on his shoulder and fractured his left leg. He was transported to City Hospital.
Rosso Lavato the Italian charged with killing Patrolman Petersen was arraigned in court yesterday. Judge Lueders continued the case until June 12 to await Coroner Cameron's verdict.
Charles Lang, charged with a larceny from fifteen years ago, was dismissed in Police Court yesterday after returning from Germany. He had repaid the money and the complainants refused to prosecute.
Dr Anna Gordon a medical missionary of India traveled through Cincinnati yesterday on her way to Henderson Kentucky where she has been summoned by the death of her husband Both Mr and Mrs Gordon were born and raised in India and recently came to the United States on furlough
Twenty babies from the Cottage Kindergarten on West Sixth Street visited the Children’s Home yesterday afternoon. The young guests sang songs and recited for the hosts, who in turn returned the entertainment with their own offerings.
J W Taylor Jr an insurance agent is missing from his boarding house at 117 Garfield Place since May 20. He told friends he would go to Hamilton to seek work but Hamilton police report no trace. His father J W Taylor resides in Boston Ga.
The May summaries show 217 complaints in the children’s department, 87 and 180 cruelty and neglect cases tied to truant fathers. Contributions by truant fathers totaled 2 877.45 from 110 fathers supporting 252 children. Three prosecutions by the society resulted in guilty verdicts in each case.
The Public Library of Cincinnati reported a total weekly circulation of 17 286 volumes. Large branches contributed 7 992 with Cumminsville 1 971 Walnut Hills 1 701 North Cincinnati 1 330 Dayton Street 1 309 Norwood 998 East End 683. Small branches added 1 189 including Madisonville 324 Wyoming 263 Hartwell 191 Lockland 214 Harrison 127 Pleasant Ridge 70.
Invitations are received for the Alpha Di Gamma Fraternity forty ninth annual banquet at Marietta College on Wednesday evening June 10. The notice outlines the event and attendees in the city.
Brooklyn duo Healey and Lillian Murray alias J R McKenzie were arrested in a rooming house at 511 West Ninth Street Cincinnati officers plan to bring them to face charges. Healy, an Adams Express employee, is a fugitive from justice and the $900 found with Murray was replevined. Murray gave her name and said she is divorced with a five year old boy placed in juvenile care. Healy claims his father is a prominent Brooklyn attorney and expects help. Judgments of $800 each were entered against Healey and Murray by Justice Muller, with attachments placed on the $900 in the police clerk’s hands. Both confessed ownership of the money. Murray had planned to wed Healey yesterday.
Police arrested a colored man named Charles Vinegar on Central avenue. Detectives Wimsey and Schnucks found two $60 checks on him, one from City Hall Bank Cincinnati and another from an out of town bank. Vinegar says he lives at 409 Mill street and came from near Georgetown Kentucky. A powder box and chamois were recovered.
Urban growth drives annexation talk as College Hill plans an improvement association to back Cincinnati’s expansion. Mayor Bruce backs the move while Schmidlapp threatens withdrawal from the Norwood elevated-rail project if annexation falters. Elmwood Place renews water ties with Carthage after a rate dispute. The Carthage Electric bid tops for a new lighting system.
General Michael Ryan and Judge Spiegel address five to six hundred at Workman's Hall urging liberty for all and opposing Prohibition overreach. They defend moderate beer use and criticize banning laws as unenforceable, while highlighting personal liberty and education to shape public opinion. John Schwaab and John McBride discuss prohibition’s impact on workers and farmers.
Members and guests of the Freesetters Union plan a two day session at Joe Pugh's farm near Lewisburg Kentucky starting tomorrow. They will gather at Ninth and Plum streets at 1 45 PM for hats and canes then march to Lewisburg with band and patrol wagons. On arrival H Knotsie Knorr will lead the group to the farm where a big burgeo awaits. A devotional service is set for Sunday morning followed by a large dinner.
Members of Cincinnati Aerie F C E No 142 are asked to attend the funeral at the late residence 3108 Vine Street Friday at 8 30 pm. Wm J Berning W P and Louis Brokerman Secretary notify the gathering.
Excelsior Lodge No. 369 F and A M calls a special meeting this evening at 7 30 for work in F C with Severin Eb el currently serving as worshipful master.
The Ohio Wine and Spirits Association held its annual meeting at the Hotel Linton to discuss an educational campaign and endorse licensing and regulation of saloons. Resolutions praised the National Model License League and Ohio Brewers' Association efforts to curb dives, with officers elected including Morris F. Westheimer as President and Joseph Debar as Vice President.
Multiple death notices list names Annie Conway Mary Cramsey Dr James Culbertson Christian Haffner Henry Hennkes Margaret Lang Sallie Owens with addresses in Ohio. Details include death dates June 2 1908 and services at St Marys Church Assumption German St Johns Church and local cemeteries with burial preferences and funeral times.
The fragmentary notice lists Nancy an eight month old at Episcopal Hospital 950 Barr fecuutsstien, Anna Coleman 63 City Hospital 611 York senility, Annie Conway 643 West Highth heart disease, Elizabeth Lampert 41 3035 Cohoon cancer, Victoria Schott 3 months 21 East Mc Micken marasmus, Casper Leicht 65 1627 Bremen Street inquest.
A. C. H. Johnstone aided the marriage of Charles J. Acker and Gladys Willcox, both of Columbus, Ohio, at the Princeton Hotel. A friend secured the license, Rev. Gervaise Roughton performed the ceremony, and Charles Dickey of Newark acted as best man. The couple then returned to Columbus.
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It purports to ease gum pain, soothe wind colic, and cure diarrhoea, claiming compliance with the Food and Drugs Act of June 30 1896 and listing Serial No 1098.
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