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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1903
Page
6
An omnibus reads like a 1900s domestic page with a morning menu breakfast items and a kitchen lore, then moves to managing a husband, woman’s role in home life, and the art of courtship and temper. It shifts to fashion tips, health advice, vanity observations, and a detailed fruit jelly mold recipe.
The article discusses water buoyancy for survival with improvised floatation and warns against climbing atop capsized craft. It also covers Pittsburgh women forming the Tenement Improvement Company to build a model slum tenement and educate sanitation, listing Misses Alice Holdslip Ann S Phillips and Mary F Bakewell as directors.
Henry Van Dyke reflects on walking life with a cheerful comrade through sun and storm. A friend who shares laughter and honest words lights the path, from bright days to weary roads, with a promise of meeting again at journey’s end.
On the first and third Tuesdays of May through September 1903 the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route offer reduced one way and round trip rates to western and southwestern points. Round trips have a twenty one day return limit with liberal stopover privileges. A. A. Gallagher invites inquiries for quotes and free mailed information from 419 Walnut Street Cincinnati Ohio.
Marriage licenses listed include George M. Stephenson age 30 liveryman Hart well with Effie Dansberry age 22 Springdale. James Waldo 25 teamster Norwood with Mamie Wilmes 18 Norwood. Irvin Gerard 22 machinist Chestnut street with Mary Cosgrove 23 Chestnut street. William G. Winters 21 laborer Providence street with Katherine Jones 18 Liberty street. Frank J. Liebermann leather worker Bellevue Ky with Margaret Dumler 3 Cutter street. Oscar F T Bartsch 29 refiner Bremen street with Catharina Renner 23 West Fourteenth street. Squire Brandt.
A mid‑summer feature urges mothers to submit a 150 word best hint on baby care in hot months to win a crib. The page includes practical remedies for summer digestive issues, teething care, diet and cleanliness, with advice from mothers in Wyoming Ohio Harrison Ohio and Mt Auburn.
The Market Basket notes arrivals from commission houses show a nationwide outpour of fruits and vegetables, with Florida watermelons and cantaloups, Georgia peaches, Tennessee raspberries, Kentucky strawberries, Ohio gooseberries, and produce from Indiana and Illinois. Prices aim to suit all budgets, while meats and poultry hold steady with cheapened rates. Old hens go for 18 1/2 cents per pound, spring lamb fore quarter $1, hind quarter 25 cents more.
Western College for Women schedules commencement activities from June 6 to 9 in Oxford Ohio. The program opens with an organ recital by Prof J Byron Oliver and organ dedication for the Henrietta B Williams Memorial Organ. A baccalaureate sermon is set for Sunday morning by Rev J Cumming Smith. The Alumnae Association meets at 9 30 a m Monday. The Masque of Comus is presented at 6 30 p m and a commencement concert follows. On Tuesday at 10 a m the exercises conclude with a commencement address by Benjamin Terry Ph D of the University of Chicago.
Heavy rains swelled the Little Miami and Mill Creek rivers flooding streets and lawns across Cincinnati and surrounding valleys. Bridges washed away skiffs carried downstream and property along the waterways suffered, with crops damaged and rail lines disrupted. Weather officials warned conditions would ease gradually. Y M C A Boat Club postponed opening as boats swept away.
Fashion note details smart half length jackets in warm weather fabrics like taf feta etamine and linen with full length tucks to enhance height. Describes black ta f f eta version with cor ticelli silk, jacket structure sleeves and collar, front wrapping, and sizes for busts 32 to 40 inches. Pattern 4444, price ten cents, sent to Fashion Editress, Commercial Tribune, Cincinnati.
The National Association of Managers of Newspaper Circulation will hold its fifth annual convention at the Westminster Hotel in Boston on June 8 9 and 10. Members include circulation managers from major daily newspapers. officers are H J Free of Berkeley president and L Boeshans secretary. Directors listed include Thomas Downey of the Globe Boston F G Hay of the News Indianapolis and others from Detroit Buffalo St Louis Philadelphia Montreal and more.
In a Northern mill town a junior partner, Thorpe, confronts Daly over Radway’s timber contract. They dissect volumes of five million feet, a million and a half tied up, and the $4 per thousand price, with disputes over security, profits, and ownership of the timber as the season nears.
Thorpe presses Daly to settle a $11,000 claim tied to Radway timber deliveries while threatening publicity and court action. The talks end in a $9,000 compromise. Thorpe then plans to fund his sister Helen’s education and a modest camping trip, buying gear and arranging a servant to free her time.
The speaker laments a stifling life under a harsh household rules, expressing anger at a brother who finances her but expects her to stay. She longs for escape and even desires to be a man or, tragically, to die, with the scene ending as Thorpe leaves for the north. Continued in Sunday's Commercial Triune.
The Board of Public Service sees a surge in applications to extend underground wire systems. Western Union seeks permission to run underground cables from Mill Creek to Evans Street and abandon a pole line on Sixth Street once underground work completes. A report from the Chief Electrician and Chief Engineer is requested.
Preparations are underway for the Ohio Mechanics' Institute commencement starting Monday at 7 30 pm and running to Friday with certificates for night school graduates. The 1903 graduating class includes Jesse C Agnew Howard McGrew and many others. events feature a Greenwood Mall opening and concerts by the Symphony Orchestra under Stacey Holmes.
A nurse recounts multiple cases where Postum replaced coffee alleviating heart trouble stomach issues and nervous exhaustion. She notes patients and her mother improved after switching to Postum and reports lasting health gains after months of use, stressing no coffee dependence.
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