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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1911
Page
4
The fragment lists the Commercial Tribune establishment details and subscription rates with publication notes. It notes the paper is published daily and Sunday with various prepaid annual and monthly options and a Cincinnati Post Office registration.
The Commercial Tribune Co outlines daily and Sunday single-copy delivery and international mail options through the Universal Postal Union. Subscriptions for different periods are priced at $1.50 monthly, $4.00 for three months, $9.00 for six months, and $18.00 for one year, with payment required in advance.
Commercial Tribune lists branch offices at Walnut Hills Covington Newport London and Washington with addresses for newsboys and newsrooms. Reading room free to Americans noted at Trafalgar building and Munsey building details.
The article portrays Owen J. Evans admitting taking one hundred dollars to influence a vote and pleading for leniency. A $500 fine follows, with expectations his grand jury testimony could aid prosecutors against other legislators. It criticizes political double standards and questions motives of those denouncing corruption.
A 1900s-era complaint details nights in Cincinnati with pushcarts and street stalls run by foreigners offering sausages tamales and ice cream. The piece notes disease fears from greasy food and dirty stands, crowds, conflicts over corner space and calls for abolishing street stands and pushcarts to improve the city.
President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern railroad claimed half the nation could perish and the country suffer no loss. He did not specify which half he meant.
The former president Diaz says he will not return home until he is asked. He is aging and may not have long to live. Advocates of a sane Fourth appear to be rallying around the project with renewed vigor.
Civic groups and the woman's club with the board of health launched a crusade against house flies. The Commercial Tribune invites Cincinnati area school children to write essays on The House Fly as a Carrier of Disease with monetary prizes for top entries across age groups 9 12 14.
A brief moral aphorism from H B Wright notes that busy minds tangled in worldly whirlpools struggle to discern truth. The reflection emphasizes clarity over distraction and inner steadiness amid daily noise.
A reader argues for more cars and space between benches as the simple solution to the end seat hog issue. The letter notes Cincinnati has broader problems and suggests tolerance, even inviting readers who dislike the city to move.
Georg E Hoey recounts a terrifying dream of waking at the switch and causing a fatal train crash. He imagines Maggie and their future, envisions courtroom judgment, then awakens beside Maggie alive, realizing it was only a nightmare.
A Missouri darky tries to sell a mule to a Jefferson City man who doubts its age. The seller explains the mule bows its legs not due to age, but because he could not care for it properly and keeps a lean stable.
An elderly bespectacled man in a crowded Washington street becomes entangled with a well dressed woman and her little boy. She mistakenly takes his hand seeking help crossing the street and is startled to realize the mix up before dismissing him. The incident ends with the woman insisting she wants her son.
The Reading railway lawyer questions a Negro woman who testified she saw a train hit a milk wagon. The exchange probes distance and whistle details with a sharp line of questioning while the witness responds with defiant poise.
Pointed paragraphs offer social maxims on laziness marriage and ambition. The bits lampoon behavior, money, sleep, gossip, law and gender with pithy lines attributed to Chicagoe News. Each quip reflects a sharp, humorous view of human folly.
A collection of wry aphorisms and humorous maxims on character fate and luck. The Atchison Globe comments on courage, restraint, and heart, noting that modesty often avoids insult while guessing contests rarely win big.
A Virginia classroom story recalls the parable of the wise and foolish virgins. A student identifies the foolish Virginian as the guest lacking trimmed lamps, prompting a regional joke about Virginians in Independence.
A brief comic exchange shows a teacher asking if Bobby is Christian and the boy replying that he is not today because he has a toothache. The dialogue reflects a light humorous moment from Brown’s Magazine.
A Philadelphia Record item notes a schoolboy composition joking that Patrick Henry was not bright, with a joke about his marriage and the famous line Give me liberty or give me death. The piece links blue eyes and light hair to the orator’s persona.
A Boston Transcript line captures a mother chiding Willie for nightly hunger and Willie replying with a quirky image about keeping his teeth in a glass of water, highlighting domestic humor.
A compilation of aphorisms noting human folly and social quirks. Quotes address blunders by bosses, evidence versus assertion, fault avoidance, talkativeness, grief symbolism, changing social interests, courting risks, broad knowledge versus mastery, and motives in wrongdoing.
Dinner menu items for a Woman's Realm Breakfast feature fried potatoes and Cream of Onion Soup. The Jewish Consumptive Relief Society holds its final meeting of the season tomor row at 2 p m in Reading Road temple with a program by Miss Mary Conrey and others. Notable notes include Miss Willis, daughter of the late NY congressman Benjamin Willis, and her sociological work. Kindergarten children perform May Day plays and German and French skits, directed by Susie Tulte Fraulein Friedbichter and Miss Abigail Halsey. Cincinnati events include May opera performances, a Kronprinz sailing from New York to Bremen, and graduation exercises for the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music set for June 9.
The Shut-in Society will hold an open meeting tomorrow at 10 a m in room 008 Odd Fellows temple. All interested in the work are invited.
Mrs. George R. Shaw's late gift of 45000 creates a trust to Harvard for travel fellowships. The will aims to aid graduates who show merit and business promise rather than traditional scholarship, to be awarded by the president and advisers through personal acquaintance.
Dr Landis will address the Woman's Home association of Price Hill at the Price Hill library Monday June 12 at 3 p m on Health. The women of Price Hill are invited to be present. The association is agitating improvements by the city of shelter houses along car lines recently found in bad condition.
At 3 15 pm in the parish house of the Church of the Nativity a bright little play titled Lullaby Land will be staged by the choir. Thirty dolls including walking and talking figures from many nations will appear, with music and dances. Mrs. E J Howard directs the production with organist Mr Bennett.
The Cincinnati Chapter D A R will elect officers on June 12 in the Literary club rooms. On June 24 at Mrs. J B Foraker’s home, Flag Day will be celebrated with music an address by Mrs Lincoln the new state regent and an address by ex Senator Foraker followed by a reception.
Elizabeth Smith Miller widow of Colonel Miller and daughter of abolitionist Gerrit Smith died in Rochester New York recently. In 1851 she introduced the bloomers costume and caused a sensation while wearing it on a trip from Peterboro to Seneca Falls.
The national YWCA has announced dates and locations for this summer conferences for students and associations. Southern General Conference in Asheville June 9 to 10, Southwestern General Conference in Eureka Springs June 13 to 23, Western General Conference in Cascade June 20 to 30, Northwest General Conference in Bakers? June 23 to July 3 in The Breakers Washington State region.
Dr. Sophia Hinze-Scott president of the Iowa State Medical Society told the annual convention that half of U S babies die before age five and urged passage of stricter laws to address the infant mortality question.
Mrs. Lizzie Chambers Hull of St. Louis Missouri won a $500 state song prize from a committee appointed by Governor Hadley after 1000 submissions. Hull, born and raised in Missouri, impressed the panel with a suitable state anthem.
Mrs. Suzanna Salter, Argonia’s 1887 one year mayor, argues women should hold offices but not police or similar posts. She says women should not cook or keep house more than men, cites sugar policy to mollify men and foster harmony.
Under the auspices of the County Womans Christian Temperance Union an entertainment will be given for infirmary members tomorrow at 2 30 p m The program includes music two minute talks by infirmary department heads and a distribution of candy flowers and Scripture texts
The Woman's Guild of the Mission of the Redeemer will hold an all day meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs Broadwell on Wasson Road.
The Ladies' Aid of the Columbia Congregational church holds an all day meeting at Mrs. Thomas Greenwald's home on Stanley avenue. Members are asked to bring a box luncheon.
Mrs. Mabel Bassett of Sapulpa becomes the first patrol woman in the state. She will watch for children under 16 on streets after 9 o clock, arresting offenders and possibly taking them to police headquarters. Her left sideward stay gives her the appearance of a policeman.
The treasurer's report at the fourth biennial and fourteenth meeting in Sedalia Missouri announced the federation was entirely out of debt for the first time in its history. Jubilation followed among members.
A terse note from the London Globe quotes a murky translation about trust and betrayal. It references temperate memories and a plea for pardon while lamenting a moral misstep. The fragment reflects literary commentary rather than a clear event.
Busy day for Miss Helen Taft with tennis and luncheon at the Pillars. Mrs. Josephus Halsey Howell hosts a farewell card party for Miss Edith Campbell before her trip, while engagements and club events punctuate a week of society in Cincinnati.
Covington hosts a wedding for Miss Verner Curry and Harry Worthington Thompson at the bride’s home with Dr J S Blackburn officiating. Local society figures attend gatherings including card club luncheons and bridge parties in Fort Mitchell, with guests from Lexington Harrodsburg Louisville and beyond.
Social items from Newport and Covington record visits by Mills Matthews, Mrs Paris C. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Speatra, Mrs. Harry D. Smith, and others. Miss Sadie Hatfield plans a European summer. renovations move for Revill family. a Thompson-Curry wedding attendees. a porch party hosted by Miss Helen Schriver. and a forthcoming marriage of Bettle Washington at St Pauls Episcopal Newport officiated by Rev Clingman with Miss Washington’s sister as maid of honor.
The Florida Times-Union quotes epigrams on moral worth, forgiveness, and persistence. It contrasts honest effort with wealth and fame, noting perfection is unattained yet worth pursuing.
The Outdoor Art League of San Jose recounts in Athens Georgia how William Jacksen granted a tree its own land surrounding it. The self owning deed conveyed eight feet of land to protect the tree, an act celebrated though not legally valid, yet still held in local memory with a tablet inscribed about the tree and its land.
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