Cincinnati Merchants Endorse Rail Rate Increase
A Cincinnati merchants association votes to back a 5 percent rail freight increase for lines east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio, arguing the money funds line improvements, terminals, and wages, with support from major local firms and industry leaders. The resolution cites benefits like faster handling, labor demand, and broader regional development.
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Central and
Trunk Line
Interstate Commercce Commission
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Cincinnati
Lnes
Executive Committee
Friends
Interstate Commission
Traffic Committee Hears Freight Rate Plan Discussion
The Chamber of Commerce Traffic Committee held a session with C. L. Thomas and railroad men from the big Four and other Western lines. They seek endorsement for a proposed 5 percent increase in freight rates. The committee adjourned the matter to a future meeting after heated discussion.
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Tee Chamber of Commerce
C. L. Thomas
Chamber of Commerce
Panic On Car At Zoo-Huden Park Fire Forces Evacuation
A panic of about fifty passengers broke out yesterday afternoon when a fire under the floor of a Zoo-Huden Park car ignited near Lincoln Avenue and Reading Road. Passengers fought to escape as flames and smoke poured through the floor. Engine Company 16 arrived on a still alarm and put out the blaze caused by cross electric wires.
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Lincoln Avenue
Reading Road
Engine Company 16
Fire horse hangs self after keeper dies
In Marion Ohio on June 5 a retired fire horse mourned the death of his longtime caretaker Harvey Lessinger. After Lessinger collapsed from heart failure in the barn the horse panicked and killed himself by forcing his head through stall bars and suffocating. Murray Wesler witnessed the moment as the horse neighed for minutes before self-inflicted death.
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Commercial Tribune
Marion
Murray Wesler
Lessinger
Death of Mrs Cora H Crawford Nurtured City Ties
The death of Cora Hayward Crawford wife of Dr J M Crawford and mother of Albert and Gwendolyn was mourned by many in Avondale. She died yesterday at the North Crescent home after a two month illness. Her husband served as US Consul General in St Petersburg and Mrs Crawford authored The Land of the Montezumas. The service is set for Saturday.
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Cora Hayward Crawford
J. M. Crawford
Fami
Woman's Club
Daughters of the American Revolution
Albert
Yale
Gwendolyn
Night High Grads Receive Their Sheepskins
About 450 night high school graduates were honored at Music Hall as they received engraved diplomas. Speakers included Tess Frederick Bertha Reitizes Bertram Jenkins William Wehrung and A D Shockley who urged lifelong learning and presented diplomas. Prof Frederick Hicks delivered an address on the outlook for their future.
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Music Hall
Charlee Gregory Smith
O. L. Seward
Tess Frederick
West High School
A. D. Shockley
Board of Education
Frederick C. Hicks
University of Cincinnati
St Bernard High to Graduate Six Girls and One Boy
A small St Bernard High School class will graduate next Wednesday night in the high school auditorium. Six girls and one boy will receive diplomas, with papers, prayers, addresses, and music by the school orchestra and choral groups. Mayor Peter W. Young will give introductory remarks, and the program lists each student’s theme with a diploma presentation by Judge Charles F. Malsbury. The baccalaureate address will be delivered Sunday evening by Rev S B Crouch at the Wilson Memorial Presbyterian Church.
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St. Bernard High School
Peter W. Young
St. Bernard
Evelyn Elizabeth Heger
Helen Poletta Hummler
Erent LE Ee Ora
Blanche ‘Kemp
Norma Dorothy Frick
John Joseph Osmond
Zella Howard
Charles Bingold
Charles F. Malsbury
BD. Crouch
Wilson Memorial- Presbyterian Church
J. L. Trisler
Campaign for Colored Y M C A Passes Goal in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati colored Y M C A drive nears $20,000 with $17,148 raised to date and $2,256 reported yesterday. J B Foraker and H B McFarland laud the effort while Secretary Moorland praises the workers. A Sunday mass meeting at Memorial Hall will feature Moorland. Team N led by Captain H Greer shows top daily total.
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Foraker
J. B. Foraker
Moorland
Cincinnati
Young Men's Christian Association
Mr. Rosenwald
N. W. Harris
Cyrus H. McCormick
Memorial Hall
H. Greer
Cincinnati beds make a big hit with Wassili Leps
Conductor Wassili Leps, visiting Cincinnati from New York and Philadelphia, comments on Cincinnati beds and plans rehearsals. He will debut with the Cincinnati Symphony at a Country Club concert Saturday, performing a program including Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Tschaikowski Caprice, and selections by Dvořák Rubinstein Massenet Wolf-Ferrari.
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Wassili Leps
Symphony Orchestra
Linton
Leos
New York
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
St. Petersburg
Russia
Cincinnati Symphony
Middle West
Country Club
C. B. Wright
Frisskey
Laveste
Wolf-Ferrari Caprice
Italien
Tschaikowski
Ten Are Graduated at University School
The University School of Avondale held graduation exercises last evening before a large audience. Ten graduates named Tressa Berman Arthur Bettman James Garvey Margery Heilbrun Alice Kuhn Robert McHugh Bernice Marx Ralph Moffett James Pease and Nelson Works delivered short speeches on chosen topics. A reception followed in the dining room and several musical numbers were performed by the Conservatory of Music.
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University School of Avondale
Tressa Berman
Arthur Bettman
James Garvey
Margery Heilbrun
Alice Kuhn
Robert McHugh
Bernice Marx
Ralph Moffett
James Pease
Nelson Works
Picke
Nservatory of Music
National Housing Association to Meet in Cincinnati
The National Housing Association will hold its fall meeting in Cincinnati in the third week of October. The Chamber of Commerce and the mayor invite the gathering, aiming to boost local housing efforts and the plan for a million dollar model tenement company. John Shider notes the conference lasts three days with sessions daily and expects about 300 delegates. The Chamber’s Housing Committee will map out Cincinnati hospitality.
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National Housing Association
Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce
Henry N. Hopper
John Shider
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy grants twenty five diplomas
The forty first annual commencement at the Grand Hotel crowded to capacity. Twenty five graduates received Bachelor of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemist degrees, with two women among them. Prizes were awarded to Binder, Braunlin, Ross, Steckelmann, Schrantz and Wines. Toasts covered medicine law and pharmacy with alumni participation.
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Grand Hotel
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
Convention Hall
Calvin A. Hackenberg
First English Lutheran Church of
Norwood
W. C. Cooder
Cincinnati Astronomical Society
Julius H. Eichberg
College of Pharmacy
John G. Otis
Charles F. Harding
Bruno John Binder
Ottoville
Harry Braunlin
Portsmouth
Charles Ross
Athens
Willam Steckelmann
Columbus
Dayton Schrantz
Edwin Wines, Jr
Richmond
Pharmacy
Raymond Bourgholtzer
Merriam Crawford
Willam Donald Danford
Richard Michael Donelan
Easton Wilfred Foertmeyer
Joseph T. Griggs
Clifford John Hamman
Genevieve Marie Kemery
Theresa King
Leon Lauermann
Charles Wilmer Miller
Mansur Milthelm Nas
President Wilson to Speak Via Proxy at Chamber Banquet
Commissioner Joseph Davies will deliver a proxy address at the Chamber of Commerce banquet on June 26 in the new Vine and Fourth Street headquarters. The event is seen as a test of administration policy toward corporations and may ease fears of government action against business.
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Chamber of Commerce
Union Central Skyscriper
Wilson
Avoodrow Wilson
Joseph EB. Davies
Lave
Wilsons
Ber of
Vine and
Fourth Streets
Neimati
Peni
Chamber
Davies
Davies Promise to Attend Cincinnati Chamber Dedication
Washington June 5 Representative A G Allen obtained a promise from Joseph Davies of Wisconsin new Commissioner of Corporations that he will attend the dedication of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Building on June 26 and deliver a speech.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Cincinnati
A. G. Allen
Joseph Davies
Wisconsin
Brave Policeman Wins Hero Medal for Rescue Incident
The Ohio Humane Society awarded sixteen M. C. Dow medals including two to Franklin men Willard Anglesby and Oliver Countryman for rescuing three occupants from a relief boat that overturned near Franklin after the recent flood. Other honorees include Traffic Officer Strawder Jackson and several firemen, patrolmen, and a veterinary surgeon. Society reports cite 180 children’s department complaints, 44 cruelty cases, 113 truancy issues, and $5,766.72 contributed by 122 fathers to support 410 children.
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Ohio Humane Society
M. C. Dow
Franklin (O
Wurlitzer
Franklin
State
Willard Clifton Anglesby
Oliver Carl Countryman
Strawder Jackson
Dow
Jackson
Taylor Brooks
Tony Boex
Harry Esterman
Marshall Korte
George Ecker
Vine-Norwood
Joseph Robinson
Henry Nalius
Teamsters
Eugene Weatherly
James H. Preston
Joseph Best
Harry Israel
Bresnan
Hooks
Harry J. Janson
Department of Public Safety
City Hall
Children’s Department
Allen
Thedieck
Eslinger
Animal Department
Society
E. O. Fitch
Ouicermond
Taefficer Brothers
Investizaeae
Universalist Minister Plans Akron Convention Attendance
Dr. A B Beresford D D of the Universalist Church Walnut Hills will attend the Ohio Universalist convention in Akron beginning Monday June 9 for a four day meeting. The event gathers seventy seven Ohio Universalist churches with four departments represented. Beresford will speak Thursday morning June 12 and return late Thursday night or Friday morning. The session is described as notably significant.
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A. B. Beresford
Universalist Church
Walnut Hills
Ohio Universalist Convention
Akron
Universalist Churches
Allance
Ohio
R. Beresford
Church
New Norwood Clubhouse Opens at Church of the Good Shepherd
The Men’s Club of the Church of the Good Shepherd at 2217 Monroe Avenue opened a new clubhouse on Wednesday evening June 4.
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Norwood
the Church of the Good Shepherd
Monroe Avenue
Convention of Credit Men Set for June at Lyric Theater
The local National Credit Men's Association plans its three day June 17 to 20 convention at the Lyric Theater with 1200 delegates expected. Ohio Governor Cox, Cincinnati Mayor, and Credit Men's Association president to speak at opening session. Dieterle Johnson and Meyer led last night’s banquet and outlined aims for cooperation and uniform banking reforms.
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National Credit Men's Association
Business Men's Club
Lyric Theater
Ohio
James A. Cox
The
Credit Men’s Association
George F. Dieterle
W. T. Johnnson
Samuel Meyer
Dieterle
Credit Men's Association
Creflit Men's Association
Johnston
Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Queen City
Cincinnati Delegation Heads to Denver Convention
The Cincinnati delegation of the Hotel, Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Alliance leaves for Denver for a two week program including the international convention. Jerry Sullivan travels ahead to arrange weeklong events, joined by Ed Horne and Charles Bante with others. Ruth B. Rohr will oversee local offices in Sullivan’s absence.
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Cincinnati
Denver
Jerry Sullivan
International
Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan
Ed Horne
Charles Bante
Joseph Algeana Edward Stoney
Barterders’ Union
John W. Hayes
Indianapolis
Union Labor League Department
American Federation of Labor
Hayes
Ruth B. Rohr
Will J. Rohr
the Chronicle
Writ of Possession Awarded Over Rheumaline Formula
Judge Nippert awards to Charles C. Rose receiver of the Rheumaline Company the right to access the safe deposit box containing the Rheumaline formula. The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company is ordered to permit opening of the box amid a dispute over ownership between the Rheumaline Company and the renters.
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Nippert
The
Common Pleas Court
Burch, Peters & Connolly
Charles C. Rose
Rheumaline Company
John C. Miller
Richard
Warner
Rose
Union Savings Bank and Trust Company
Messrs
Messrs. Radcliffe and
McConkey
Theormula
Miller
Fire interrupts Bijou showing as film bursts into flames
At the Bijou on Fifth Street a film fire broke out during the last show. Lawrence Shuler, the operator from Norwood, pulled the reel from the window, and fire crews and police kept crowds calm. Shuler suffered minor burns.
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Moving Picture House
the Bijou
Fifth Street
Walnut
Lawrence Shuler
Norwood
Need a Copper Call Patrol 19
Five motorcycle patrolmen were assigned to the five police substations. Stations 6 through 10 cover California Mt Washington Madisonville Avon Dale Carthage Sayler Park Westwood College Hill Mt Airy Winton Place. Citizens are urged to call Police 19 for immediate officer presence at home or on the scene.
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California
Mt. Washington
Madisonville
Avondale
Carthage
Sayler Park
Westwood
College Hill
Mt. Airy
Winton Place
FiveYearOld Emma Miller Struck by Streetcar Unharmed
Emma Miller aged 5 of 1120 Baymiller Street was hit by a northbound John Streetcar in front of her home last night. She was knocked fifteen feet but escaped serious injury, surprising neighbors who rushed her inside and found her playing again with friends soon after.
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Emma Miller
Baymiller Street
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Marshall
Crawford
Senator Foraker
J. E. Moorland
Summer Symphony Orchestra
Pon Hoover
Pharmacy College
DR. Beresford
Universalists
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Broadway Street
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Tio
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Arthur Johnson
Molloy
Gifts’ Company
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