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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
5
An illustrated 1918 beauty column describes low neck hair styles with parting and back tying. It outlines steps for center foundation, side parts, and pinning curls, promising future lessons on coils, puffs, coronet braids, and varied faces.
A nurse tends a delirious officer wounded in conflict, reassuring him of her safety and promising to stay by his side. The narrator fights lingering emotions while maintaining composure, and remains at his bedside until sleep ends the vigil. The scene ends with a vow to return, as the tale continues on Monday.
A reflective, humorous note on the emptiness of a house after a husband takes a week off. The writer compares a husband to a kindergarten and a menagerie, detailing the chaotic, affectionate antics and the peculiar quiet that follows his absence. The piece conveys loneliness, longing, and the routine disruptions caused by his presence.
At the annual convention in Columbus the Ohio Funeral Directors and Embalmers chose John E Sullivan of Cincinnati as First Vice President and S McCoy of Middletown as President.
About 1,500 Chamber of Commerce members and guests attended a Zoo outing featuring a baby contest with 15 entries ranging from 1 month to 20 months. Prizes totaled 24. The event included games, a Home Guards drill, a Glee Club program, an ice skating exhibition, a concert, and a late night audience.
Cincinnati bakers will be notified that further curtailment in wheat flour use is necessary. A telegram from the National Bakers' Service Board in Washington says national wheat consumption is about 5,009,900 bushels per month, leaving 14,4599-00 bushels available as of September 1.
Mayor John Galvin warned Union Gas and Electric Company that domestic consumers must not be deprioritized during extreme cold despite industry demand. He urged transfers to coal in emergencies and asked the Public Utilities Commission to intervene for a prompt, citywide solution while opposing discontinued extensions at company expense.
Fourteen Cincinnati Real Estate Board members will travel to St Louis for the National Association of Real Estate Boards convention slated June 17. Governor Lowden of Illinois will be a principal speaker.
Walter Hawk age 20 of 811 Delta Avenue was killed in action overseas. A RainBow Division soldier who enlisted at 19 in January 1917, he worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pendleton yards East Lind. His brother Lee serves in the navy with a recent furlough. The Hawk family lived with their sister Mrs Heatly.
Gifts to the Public Library in May 1918 included 116 books 538 pamphlets 2 maps 1 picture 2 sheets of music 1 binder flowers and various leaflets. Donors in Cincinnati include T Aylward Co Judge August H Bode Grafton Borgmann Emil Braup C Brand Cincinnati Law School City Art Museum Council of Social Agencies Deaconess Hospital Mrs C S Hannaford F Kinney National Association of Distillers and Wholesale Dealers National Plant Flower and Fruit Guild Platt Bros Co Union of American Hebrew Congregations Bishop Boyd Vincent Western Electric Co and A E Zurborn.
Louis Michelson sues Samuel L Metz and wife for 50000 in alienation of affections. case dismissed at plaintiff's costs. Divorce decree in favor of Michelson's wife, issued thirty days ago by Judge Hoff man goes into effect. Rabbi Kaplan declined reconciliation. defendants represented by Judge Benton Oppenheimer and David Rosenberg.
Annie F Schwenlein sues for divorce in Common Pleas Court citing failure to provide, cruelty and neglect after forty years of marriage to George W Schwenlein. They married in 1877 and have five children. Lillian Dandridge seeks divorce from Charles Dandridge and restoration of her maiden name. Charles Stevens files for divorce from Alice Stevens alleging ten years of drunkenness and gross neglect. Charles Ll Waaser seeks divorce from Irene Waaser on the ground of willful absence.
Judge Wade Cushing authorized Louis Schneider to travel to Eddyville Kentucky to take Pat Kearney's deposition in the John Tierney larceny case. Kearney previously sentenced to death but given a reprieve. Tierney claims Kearney admitted the crime and will testify via deposition. Tierney is free on bond.
Bankruptcy Referee Greve announced a 7 percent first dividend for creditors of the White Restaurant and Baking Company formerly at Fifth and Main streets. Additional assets remain with the trustee to be converted to cash for a second dividend.
Edward J. Smith of Piqua filed for bankruptcy on Friday listing debts of 486 dollars and assets worth half that amount.
The Pittsburg Plate Glass Company appeal from a judgment for H. Newer Glass Company was argued Friday before the Court of Appeals by Edward P. Moulinier B Tuttle and Province Pogue and taken under advisement. The court advanced for hearing in October the mandamus application against Judge Hollister in the Wagner Strobel Wilken Meccano litigation. The writ seeks to challenge alleged misconstructions in the decree favoring Meccano Limited.
Judge Westenhaver of the United States Court in Cleveland completes a week of service with the Circuit Court of Appeals and returns home. Judge Walter Evans of Louisville will serve as Auxiliary Judge for the coming week as the June session closes.
Alfred Batts was arrested and arraigned before Commissioner Adler on a charge of lifting a case of whisky from an L and N Railroad shipment. He pleaded not guilty and is held for a hearing on June 20.
No. 168,373 Ida M. Holford vs George M. Krieger executor for 602 for services rendered. Bentley and Mente. No. 168,374 Annie F Schwemlein vs George W Schwemlein for alimony. William Shepard. No. 168,375 Katherine Kennath et al vs The Industrial Commission of Ohio petition on appeal filed. arry R. Weber. No. 168,376 Edward Redmond vs same petition on appeal filed. Shickner and Weiland. No. 168,377 John F Crane vs Julia Crane.
The Cincinnati Electric Jovian Club hosts a luncheon on Monday June 10 at McAllpin's. W F Freeman president of Union Gas and Electric Company returns from Washington to discuss his work on the new nitrate plant to be built at Elizabethtown.
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