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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1906
Page
8
The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange outing at Glen Park featured a Manufacturers vs Dealers baseball contest won 10 to 3 by the manufacturers. A day trip aboard the Levi J. Workum included a white cap ceremony, Russian tea, and music by Lutz's Band.
Mayor Dempsey instructed City Auditor Culkins to refuse salary vouchers for all eleven acting detectives of the Police Department when presented. He seeks mandamus to force payment if court agrees their status is unsupported by the municipal code, arguing Council created no such offices. If upheld, Council may be asked to authorize higher pay for patrolmen on special duty.
A long catalog of company names appears, including furniture, lumber, hardware, varnish, glass, and manufacturing firms such as Ohio Scroll and Lumber, National Brass Mfg, Phoenix Mfg, Pittsburg Plate Glass, Queen City Varnish, United States Glue, Western Lumber, and Wiborg & Hanna. The list reads as an inventory of notable enterprises and contractors.
Cincinnati machine tool makers seek space in Music Hall for display at the Fall Festival. Led by Si P. Egan the Exposition Committee has secured signatures from major local firms. The exhibit pledges to showcase woodworking machinery laundry equipment and home made electrical machinery from the Queen City.
About 100 East End residents plan to attend a council meeting to protest the 1905 Pennsylvania Rookwood crossing ordinance. City Mayor Dempsey warns the ordinance may be invalid and could expose the city to damages if construction proceeds.
John B. Edwards is held by police on a larceny charge. W B Cohen says Edwards stole a diamond ring valued over $100. Former employee of Cohen, Edwards allegedly swept the ring from a dropped stone into a waste pile and did not report its recovery. Cohen also accuses him of gambling at races.
An Arbuckle Brothers sales pitch touts Ariosa Coffee as the genuine sealed package choice. It claims four million presents in twelve months and warns against loose coffee while urging readers to request the free color book and visit authorized offices in New York Chicago Pittsburgh St Louis.
Creditors of broker A L Rich face bleak prospects as assets are uncovered. Miss Eudora Roberta Hall testified about Richs stocks bonds and property before disappearance. Receivers found 245 shares Rich Co 284 Henderson City Railway 204 Harrison Water and Light 67 Beloit Water and Light preferred 820 Beloit common plus various bond coupons.
Seventeen new typhoid cases were reported to the Health Department yesterday as the week closed with ninety four total cases, twelve fewer than the prior week. City Hospital accounted for nineteen cases on Thursday, with two deaths linked to the outbreak and ongoing battles against the epidemic.
The Ohio Music Teachers Association held a well attended convention from Wednesday to Friday. Attendees came from major towns across the state and the concerts featured high quality performances. Social events included a trip to Coney Island and suppers at a clubhouse and at the Zoo. Miss Mabel Orebaugh of Columbus and Mr. and Mrs. Smith also visited after the event.
Judge Clark upholds payouts by Samuel P. Scott and Charles E. Ball in the Hillsboro bank case. They owe two sums totaling 10 565 dollars plus 1 200 dollars interest and costs. They are released from an additional 18 000 dollar claim. General Cowen receives 550 dollars for his master's services.
A new claim against Harry D. Brown former owner of the Majestic Case was filed by L. W. Waldron for 7474.49 for materials and labor in remodeling and repairing the Majestic during 1905 and 1906. Waldron seeks priority of a mechanic’s lien over general creditors.
Walter C Nutley and Flora Hipplesteimer wed Friday night in Elmwood Place. After the ceremony, neighborhood youths demanded to see the couple, paid them, then returned with older boys and drenched the groom with water and shattered glassware with a tin can. Constable Naylor protected the couple as Elmer Nutley seeks the assailants and arrests are anticipated.
Entry filed in a United States Court removes J Frank Furman as trustee of the E C Reed estate. Affidavits by J A Davy and L B H St John claim Furman absconded with trust funds and fled. On June 12 he resigned but Bankruptcy Referee Forgy required review by Judge Thompson. Shortage cited at $500 to $700. Furman is under bond.
The Police Department will periodically transfer Lieutenants and Sergeants between stations starting July 1 under Board of Public Safety rules. The Board of Public Service bought a forty stall stable at 2818 Vine Street for Street Cleaning serving Clifton Avondale and Mt. Auburn equipment. Contracts for coal at Front Street Pumping Station set at 1.89 per ton to W H Browns Sons Company. City Chemist Samson devises new milk testing formula. Health Department milk inspection to be stricter. Auditor Culkins rejects a University Entertainment voucher as improper charge. Kirchner Construction and Warren Bros instructed to pave with bitulithic on Spring Grove Avenue Pearl Street Mound Street and Celestial Street work to begin shortly.
Deputy Grand Chancellor O M Bake of Hamilton Ohio names William Schuchardt to lead the First District and Colonel E A Tucker to lead Hamilton County in the Knights of Pythias organization.
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