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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1903
Page
6
A home crafts item explains making a closet from four crosswise boards and two uprights with two shelves for hats and shoes. It describes a back, front rod possibility, and a dust barrier using thick linen or bed ticking, plus a washable cover and optional molding on top.
The text outlines croquette recipes for sweet potato croquettes stuffed peppers tomato with mushrooms and creamed asparagus patties. It also describes Green Tree Cottage at Green Tree Station offering a summer vacation option for working girls, run by Miss Mary B. Wharton with fourteen beds, pleasant furnishings, a piano and porch amenities, at eight dollars weekly.
The excerpt describes bedroom furniture trends with low wide dressers, mirror designs, wash stands, and variations using chiffoniers. It then provides two recipes: Corn Pudding and Potato Croquettes, detailing ingredients and basic preparation steps.
A letter praises Grape-Nuts as a scientific food that cured chronic constipation after years of laxatives. The writer credits immediate digestion and regular bowel function to the cereal, and thanks Postum Co for the product and its recipe book. The piece also notes a humorous statistic about smiles and its mock medical value.
An authority explains how to judge cheese by rind texture and elasticity noting good cheese is mellow and evenly colored with a firm close-grained texture. Meanwhile Boston society women test hiring servants by the hour through the Women's Education Association opening a Back Bay house in August to train girls for monthly stints.
A simple recipe combines butter brown sugar and eggs creamed with nutmeg and cinnamon. Sweet milk is added with sifted flour and baking powder, then flourd huckleberries are folded in and baked in buttered pans to form thick squares served hot for breakfast.
A Martha Dickinson-era poem fragment titled A Blossom From The Garden Of Poetry presents dramatic imagery of tragedy victory and death. The voice lauds declines into a triumphant death scene with mythic and classical allusions. The cadence evokes stage brass trumpets and the spectacle of a chariot race ending in death as climax.
Luise Schmid and Julius Frei wed last Thursday at the Hanover Building flat. Schmid leaves the German Theater Stock Company to marry and move to Europe, with her brother Otto B Schmid assuming management and Freis starting a new leading woman and stock company roles.
The column lists engagements and upcoming weddings including Miss Julia Bates Gaussen and Dr. Dudley Woodbridge Welch. It notes Miss Rose Mayer preparing to wed Henry J. Lichtenstader at the Cincinnati Club with family as attendants. Also announced are the marriages of Miss Elizabeth Hill to George Kress and Miss Tacy Patterson Walker to Dr. A F. Robinson with details of attendants and a reception at Congress Farm.
Visitors from across the country attend Cornell University festivities. Sigma Chi hosts Clyde Johnson and George Diehl from Cincinnati, while Mrs M B Boone and George Bullock from Cincinnati join Delta Upsilon and Kappa Alpha events. Johnson Diehl Bullock attended the masque Seven Twenty Eight at the Lyceum Theater before a Zeta Psi dance.
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music presented a recital by Lena Ruscher, a 1924 graduate of Mrs Lily Hollingshead James class, assisted by Meta Bairnsfather pianist from Theodore Bohlmann's class.
Rev. J. T. Jones, a colored man and Gambier College graduate, living in Cincinnati for twenty years, is soliciting subscriptions for an Industrial and orphans home for people of his race to be established at Macon, Georgia.
Practical guidance for mothers on infant care during heat. Tips cover breathing space, air quality, feeding, bowel care, and daily baths. Advice includes bottle care, diet progression from birth to twelve months, and simple remedies like borax sugar mix for thrush. Addresses by Mrs. J. C. G. and Mrs. H. A. Powers at Tusculum Avenue.
Fashion note describes a full draped skirt in flowered batiste with shirred yoke and knee vents. It uses a circular main piece and belt, with hidden back closure, and varies by waist sizes 22 to 30 inches. Material amounts listed for 10 yard widths. Pattern 4450 offered for ten cents via the Fashion Editress.
The record shows numerous marriage licenses issued to individuals and couples, listing ages occupations and addresses. Names include Richard Mathers Mamie Rebel William Ahlers Adele Schawe and many others with associated streets and cities of residence.
Public Ledger recalls a man recounting a speedway pursuit and a dramatic car incident. He says he searched for the other driver yesterday, describes being out in the car, then out of it, and notes the crash that followed with an estimated $900 damage.
Harry Thorpe finds restlessness fade as he meets a striking woman among pines near Camp One. Their furtive encounters spark a deep, consuming passion, complicated by mistaken assumptions about his whereabouts and a tense meeting of rival groups.
Cincinnati marked its first official Flag Day with limited participation. Businesses on Fourth Street displayed many flags, while residence districts and public schools showed few celebratory efforts. The First Intermediate School held a student flag raising funded by pupils. readings of history and patriotic songs closed the observance.
Twenty carloads of new potatoes arrived Sunday and by Monday evening at least 1000 barrels had been delivered. Florida peaches sold well while Georgia crops were not yet in. One thousand packages of first class pineapples fetched good prices at auction Saturday. Watermelons, especially Orleans melons, are plentiful with prices around 20 to 25 cents. Cucumbers and tomatoes from the South are plentiful but high. Commission men report business brisk and general prosperity slighting none.
At the University graduation, Dr. H M Curtis will preach the baccalaureate sermon next Sabbath at 11 o clock at Mt Auburn Presbyterian Church.
Mrs aes Deitsch widow of Colonel lip Deitsch died at 4 06 p m at 4304 Hamilton Cumminsville after weeks of illness. Born in Connaught Ireland as Anna Johnson she married Colonel Deitsch on May. Funeral arrangements are handled by Undertaker GC Miller with burial at Spring Grove Cemetery beside her husband. Lieutenant Ruswell Deitsch is stationed at Fort Leavenworth and Mrs Anna Wilson is en route from Allegheny Pennsylvania.
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