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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1908
Page
9
Chicago reports a weak grain session with July wheat down to the mid 84s, corn and oats also weak as favorable U.S. harvest weather dampens demand. Wheat closed 84.5 to 85.0 cents, corn 67.5 to 68.0, oats 44.5 cents, and provisions mixed with live hogs and carcass values softening then stabilizing.
New York grain note reports mixed demand with exports noted for flour and corn meal steady to easy. Wheat futures opened steady then fell on bearish weather and crop news. prices and receipts listed for No 2 red, No 1 Northern, and No 2 hard winter along with July and September closes. Other grains show sparse activity with oats, rye, barley, flax, and bran pricing and regional quotes from Baltimore Milwaukee Duluth and St Louis.
Owen County tobacco growers receive seventy thousand dollars for pooled white Burley crop. The payment marks the largest sum sent to a single county in the belt, with more than one hundred thousand dollars due for the 1906 crop in Owen County.
Cattle receipts moderate on Friday with ample numbers in pens. Market shows little change with good milch cows strong and variations by grade. hogs and sheep also move with steady to firm tendencies across regions including Pittsburgh St Louis Chicago and New York as buyers and locals show active demand.
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. announce that Kuhn Loeb Speier Ladenburg and Hallgarten in charge of the Mexican Railroad merger have closed a negotiation with leading French bankers for about 30 million dollars of Mexican Railway bonds. The 4 percent general mortgage bonds are guaranteed by the Mexican Government.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce files two ICC complaints charging five railroads with grain rate discrimination favoring Chicago. It alleges the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific and the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul pass through rates for wheat and barley to Milwaukee but not corn oats or rye. It also claims Illinois Central Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul and Chicago North Western canceled Milwaukee through rates on August 1, raising the Milwaukee rate unjustly.
On June 26 the Secretary of State listed new articles of association for Ohio firms across Cleveland Columbus Lorain Springfield and other cities. Companies include Schild Poultry Supply, Royal Squabs, Northern Ohio Gas Appliance, Stedman Johnson Manufacturing, Livignano Arch Support, Franklin Stove, Beach City Manufacturing, Ridgely Trimmer, Berry Pickers Club, Springfield Theatrical Mechanical Association, Continental Construction, John Ward Agency, Ft. Recovery Title, Berkeley Metal, Farmers Bank of Arcanum, American Fiducial, and Gas Power Producing with capital amounts from 1 000 to 250 000 and various local partners.
R. G. Dunn & Co. reports midsummer quietness offset by crop progress boosting fall business. Steel and iron mills see steady orders, leather costs rise, dry goods sales up, country merchants restocking, and export demand improving, though overall trade remains below last year.
A pattern guide describes a fashionable shirtwaist for teen girls aged 14 to 17. It features a square yoke with gathered body, options for standing or Peter Pan collars, optional lining, three sleeve styles, and a waist designed for the undeveloped figure. Uses doorway pongee and 36 inch wide fabric. pattern No. 4363 with four sizes costs ten cents.
Secretary of the Republican National Committee Elmer Dover opened the committee’s headquarters in Washington and began preliminary campaign work before a chairman is appointed. By about August 1 headquarters are expected in New York and Chicago.
Plans for a three and a half story Vine Street apartment building by H F Busch include six apartments and a storeroom at an estimated cost of 15000 dollars with plans by architect Philip Pfeiffer. Other items note a 2375 dollar annual rent for a Fifth Street store lease for 25 years by the Smith Kasson Company, and various property transfers and public works plans in Ohio and Rhode Island.
Numerous property transactions appear in the record, including sales and long term leases in Hyde Park and Norwood. Names such as Arminda B Slack Arminda B Smith Margaret M Smith and Mary J Weston appear, with parcels on Erie Avenue Fifth Street Wyoming Street and Dreman Avenue among others. Mortgage cancellations and lease updates are also noted alongside several subdivison references and seller buyer pairs.
Additions and alterations filed for 1704 Vine Street by T. J. Wyscarver, owner, cost 1200. A two and one half story brick residence on east side Stettinius Avenue near Erie for H. J. Heiker, owner, cost 6500. A two and one half story brick and stone store and rooms at Harrison and Buck streets for George Stegner, owner, cost 6500.
A list of civil cases filed in Common Pleas Court numbered 140,147 to 140,158 includes Jacob Pittner vs. Andrew J. Burns for 500 dollars. Adam Brewing Company vs. Henry Kunz et al for 9698.98 and mortgage foreclosure. Elizabeth Feldhaus vs. Albert Roeder et al for 2000 dollars. Henry Drury vs. James M. Wilson on appeal from Squire Smedes. Joseph B. Schroeder administrator vs. Henry Bolte et al to construe a will. Westwood Homestead Company vs. John W. Dunne et al for foreclose mortgage. Louisa G. Wopperer vs. Joseph Wonperer for divorce and alimony. Western Paper Goods Company vs. E A Mullenix on appeal. American Fruit Union vs. The C N O T P Ry Company on appeal from Squire Muller. and related entries noted in the docket.
Thomas J Hall files a quiet title suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County Ohio Case No 139817 against multiple defendants, seeking to bar any claim to Lots 22 23 24 25 and 26 in Harmars heirs subdivision Cincinnati. Defendants must answer by August 1 1908 or default judgment may be entered. Attorneys: Jones and James.
The Board of Education of Cincinnati invites sealed proposals until 12 noon on July 21 1908 for all labor and materials to complete a new district school building at Melrose and Locust. Bids may cover individual trades or a full package. Must include names of all bidders and a 30 percent disinterested guaranty. bonds required for contracts above a threshold.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati stood at 11 feet 6 inches and rising yesterday. The Greenland and Kentucky steamers depart Cincinnati today at 5 p.m. for Charleston Madison and Louisville respectively, with the City of Louisville also leaving at 5 p.m. for Louisville and intermediate ports. Passenger and freight traffic trends noted as improving and fair respectively, with clear cool weather.
River conditions vary across ports with readings from 9.7 feet at Madison to 35 feet at Cairo. Vessels depart and arrive across Pittsburgh Wheeling Louisville Evansville St Louis and surrounding waterways. Weeks show rising levels at some ports and falling at others amid clear warm or cool conditions.
The Illustrated Magazine in Sunday Commercial Tribune issue will feature two full pages on youth and beauty. It includes the third prize winner from the recent Beauty Contest and a full page of smiling faces on Page 6. Readers are urged to pick up the magazine next Sunday for free stories jokes and anecdotes.
Hamilton Ohio June 26 factions between the City Council and the Board of Public Safety lead the council to plan abolishing the new police inspector and a detective post. Charles Stricker and George Dreher were named for these spots but the Safety Board rules blocked them. Both remain patrolmen pending promotion and the pay restored to the general fund.
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