Subscription rates and delivery notes in 1913 Commercial Tribune
The page lists daily and Sunday subscription prices for the Commercial Tribune, including options omitting Sundays and single copy details. It also provides international post rates to Great Britain and other countries, advance payment requirements, and multiple city bureau addresses across Cincinnati and other locations.
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Great Britain
Universal Postal Union
Poe
Ris
Railroads Gain Support from Merchants and Contractors
Public notice highlights merchant and manufacturer support for a 5 percent freight rate increase sought from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The piece also tells of railroad contractors offering fair prices for essential flood relief work and a Pennsylvani a Railroad contract approach that reveals corporate generosity and potential “souls.”
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
The Young Folks Month Encourages Youthful Ambition
The piece celebrates May as a time of weddings and graduations and urges society to support graduates as they enter work. It praises youthful ideals, notes some will succeed while others fail to alter the world, and calls for a helping hand to the rising generation.
Commoner editor to govern Canal Zone duties
The editor of The Commoner is slated to become Civil Governor of the Canal Zone. The note muses on losses like a blue pencil and paste pot, while brief, satirical remarks touch on world figures and literary names including Alfred Noyes and Julian Hawthorne.
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Canal Zone
Free Flower Distributions Bring Spring to Tenements
A scene in a tenement district shows how free flowers and seeds lift spirits in crowded urban quarters. The piece notes city efforts to create parks and play spaces for the poor and cites Berlin and Paris programs that supply blossoms for home gardens and window boxes.
Senate Amendment Aims Graduated Tax on Tobacco Giants
A proposed amendment to the Underwood tariff bill would levy a sliding excise tax on tobacco products including cigars cigarettes and snuff The plan targets large manufacturers while sparing smaller firms and argues the tax could force real dissolution of tobacco trusts and boost Treasury revenue Attorney General McReynolds and Senator Hitchcock advocate thorough Finance Committee review and potential enforcement by existing government tax machinery.
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Washington
Atorney
McReynolds
Hiteh
Nebraska
Cattron
Finance Committee
Hitchcock
American Tobacco Company
Liggett & Myers
Lorillard Company
American Snuff Company
George W. Helme Company
Weyman & Button Co
Lorillara Company
Tobacco Trust
Treasury
Capitol
Simmons
Borah
Bumper Wheat Prospects Lift Ohio Farmers in 1913
Ohio farmers face a promising year as the Department of Agriculture reports 97 percent normal wheat prospects for June. Acreage is up one third from 1912, with potential yield around 23.16 million bushels at 14 bushels per acre, worth about 23.16 million dollars at a dollar per bushel.
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Columbus
Ohio
Buckeye
Department of Agriculture
Department
Bureau
Timothy
New Banking and Currency Law Urged Before Session Ends
Washington dispatch reports Congress and the administration pressing for a modern banking and currency law this session. Speaker Glass and Rep. Owen back bills prepared by Glass and McAdoo. leaders may delay until August 1 without gag rules. House committee to organize soon.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Congress
Carter Glass
Virginia
Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Wilson
Glass
Owen
McAdoo
Senate
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Lineman Falls From Telegraph Pole Injures Self
Ness Davis a telegraph lineman of 1401 Banklick street Covington fell from a pole at Glenway and Cleves yesterday and sustained internal injuries. Patrol 5 transported him to City Hospital for treatment.
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Ness Davis
Banklick Street
Covington
Glenway
Cleves Avenues
Patrol 5
Suit Over Profits From Turtle Cure Names Dr Friedmann
Dr Harry Benjamin, a Berlin physician who aided Dr Friedrich Friedmann in promoting a turtle cure for tuberculosis, sues in New York Supreme Court to force an accounting of profits and future shares. Benjamin alleges Friedmann promised to pay expenses and a share of earnings, with $2,000,000 already received in cash and stock. He seeks a full accounting to determine what is owed.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Harry Benjamin
Berlin
Friedrich Franz Frieimann
Friedmann
Maurice Sturm
Sait
Supreme Court
Benjamin
United States
Dr. Friedmann
Dr. Benjamin
Cannon Salute Accident Harming Ohio Student
In Ada Ohio on June 5 a premature cannon discharge during a salute to Governor James M. Cox injured Daniel Best of Pitcairn Pennsylvania, a former Ohio Northern University student. Best, who was handling the rammer, was burned severely after the charge detonated. Cox attended the university commencement and addressed the students.
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Ada, O
James M. Cox
Daniel Best
Pitcairn
Ohio Northern University
Best
Cox
Ada
Univers
Gompers to Undergo Second Operation Tomorrow
President of the American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers will have a second operation for a masoid abscess tomorrow. Physicians report he is in good condition for the procedure and remains under careful observation.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Iron Murder Confesses Then Walks Free in Ohio Case
In Columbus on June 5 1910 Lee Cage a Union worker from Wheeling W V who killed Detective John J Reardon of Pittsburg during a labor strike in Steubenville Ohio confessed in court then walked away free after a jury acquitted him in Steubenville Cage admitted to firing the shots but the case ends as double jeopardy bars further trial The judge condemned his testimony calling it brutal and brazen and noting the settlements of rewards and damages related to Reardons death
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Columbus
Hhe
John J. Reardon
Pittsburg
Steubenville
Lee Cage
Wheeling
W. Va
United States District Court
Cage
Reardon
State Criminal Court
Ohio
Sater
Jefferson County
Ian
Lewis
Labelle Iron Works
Eardon
Rate differences in fire insurance still unexplained
The Ohio inspection probe seeks why rates vary by city from 27 cents to 81 cents per 100 value. Key witnesses include T. B. Sellers, A. R. Dean of Chicago, and George W. Cleveland, with hearings planned in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Dean’s ratemaking system has operated since 1905, showing overall rate declines for many risks but higher costs for poorer ones.
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Sellers
A. R. Dean
Chicago
Ohio
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Sion
Harling Hotel
Charlies H. Patton
Cleveland Inspection Bureau
George
W. Cleveland
Patton
Ohio Inspection Bureau
Columbus
Dean
Illiteracy Charged Against Teachers Over 300 Letters Cited
New York June 5 The Committee on School Inquiry reported to the Board of Estimates that many teachers and some principals show serious illiteracy in letters to the City Paymaster from over 300 examples. Letters include phrases like I whent to the school to dy and February payrole. One letter was nearly unintelligible while ratings on record marked many as fit meritorious.
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New York
Committee’ On
Board of Estimates
Lear
Pure Food Law Persistence Under New Administration
Dr. Carl L. Alsberg heads the Bureau of Chemistry stating no step backward in enforcing the pure food law. He told the National Wholesale Grocers Association that enforcement should be paired with education to boost effectiveness. He aims for the Chemistry Bureau to aid consumers as Agriculture aids farmers.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Carl L. Alsberg
Bureau of Chemistry
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Alsberg
Chemistry Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Shortage Found At The Police Gazette
George Fox and Adolph Chudoba were arrested on grand larceny in the second degree warrants. Richard K. Fox alleged a book shortage of 60 000 to 75 000 dollars extending over several years.
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New York
George Fox
Police Gazette
Adolph Chudoba
Richard K. Fox
Senator Bristow proposes treasury value for tuberculosis cures
Washington June 6 Senator Bristow introduced a bill requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate what value the Public Health Service has found in the tuberculosis cures it has investigated.
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Washington
Bristow
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate
Hunter’s Hunger Strike Ends As Wolf Bounty Won
Owen Hughes of Angelo Township starved for four days to lure eleven wolves from their den in Lacrosse Wisconsin. He shot and killed them as they emerged and collected a $100 bounty at the County Clerk’s office before dining on his first meal in days.
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Lacrosse
Wis
Owen Hughes
Angelo Township
Hughes
Vokolek Sentenced for Fraud in Insurance Scheme
William Vokolek alias Frank Salat and Andy Miles pleaded guilty to collecting life insurance on nonexisting people. A judge sentenced him to eighteen months in the West Virginia state prison. He confessed forging charter papers for a Marietta branch and defrauding National Slavonic Society of about 2500 dollars. He claimed a conspiracy by rival insurers and cited his Pittsburg home.
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Columbus
William Vokolek
Frank Salat
Andy Miles
West Virginia
Moundsville
Sater
United States
Vokolek
Pittsburg
National Slavonic Society of
National Society
Marietta
National Slavonic Society
Big Liner Delayed for Morgan Farewell Visit
The liner France to Havre delayed thirteen minutes in New York as J P Morgan bid farewell to his sister Miss Anne Morgan who will spend the summer at a Paris area villa. Morgan jumped from a car and crossed the gangplank as it was raised. Also aboard was Dr Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute who will spend the summer in Paris and Berlin conducting organ transplant experiments.
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New York
France
Havre
J. P. Morgan
Anne Morgan
Paris
Mr. Morgan
Miss Morgan
Pr. Alexis Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Dr. Carrel
Berlin
George Riebel Dies After Brief Illness
Former Constable George Riebel died at his home 156 Baymiller Street after heart failure. In his sixty second year, he served the Twenty first Ward affairs, was a Republican, and active in fraternal groups and West End organizations. He lived bachelor fifty years and is survived by two brothers and three sisters. funeral Saturday at Vine Street Cemetery.
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George Riebel
Baymiller Street
Ward
Lion Building Association
Red Mens
West End
Vine Street
Ashmen Hurt After Car Collides With City Wagon
James Jordan aged 5 percent of 2317 Gilbert avenue and Chris Fortune aged 56 of 7 percent West Sixth street city ash cart workers were slightly injured when a Madisonville car struck their wagon at McMillan street and Alms place yesterday afternoon. They were taken to City Hospital in Pastol 7.
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James Jordan
Gilbert Avenue
Chris Fortune
West Sixth Street
Madisonville
McMillan Street
Alms Place
City Hospital
Pastol 7
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