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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
4
Historic newspaper page lists subscription rates and delivery options for the Commercial Tribune, including daily and Sunday prices, six month and one year terms, and carrier delivery details. Some lines are garbled but reflect postally paid rates and schedule.
Advertising text lists international subscriptions and rates, addresses for offices in Cincinnati and branch bureaus including Walnut Hills Covington Newport and Washington D C plus London bureau details Trafalgar Building Trafalgar Square with a reading room for Americans.
Sultry summer weather with occasional showers and thunderstorms across the interior. Temperatures rose to 90 in the West and are expected to move eastward crossing the Ohio Valley today with more showers. Cincinnati highs 88, lows 67, June 27, 1906 data from Weather Bureau shows clear mornings and varying daily temps.
Occasional showers expected in Ohio and West Virginia Thursday and Friday with southeast fresh winds. Kentucky sees partly cloudy Thursday with Friday showers, followed by cooler conditions. Indiana reports partly cloudy Thursday with showers and cooler in the north, and Friday showers with cooler air in the south and fresh south winds.
Shipping news reports arrivals and sailings from multiple ports. Varying vessels include Carpathia and Citta di Genova arriving in Genoa and Naples, Queenstown, Liverpool, Hamburg, Yokohama, and Boston bound or docked, with Marconi contact noted near Sable Island and several ships en route to New York, Montreal, and Hong Kong.
A dense roster lists numerous individuals with city affiliations including New York Chicago Cleveland New Orleans Philadelphia Pittsburg Boston Birmingham and others. The text pairs names with associated locales and institutions in a long fragmented roll.
The article discusses Mr. Ingalls’s observations in London aboutEngland’s municipal system. He notes many capable civic leaders, contrasts American civic busyness with British steadiness, and questions private versus municipal ownership and the drift from individualism toward socialism.
The Chicago Board of Health warns that tetanus risk from fireworks and accidents lingers around the nation’s Fourth of July festivities. It cites Chicago deaths from tetanus in 1904 and 1905, urges wound treatment with antiseptics and air exposure, and calls for suppressing deadly devices while preserving a patriotic celebration.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey upholds the law banning live pigeon shooting in contests. The Nimrods may seek relief for their anger by directing aims away from the New Jersey trust.
Popular novelist Martin Vossicker sparks a romance with Rose Gerard at Saxton manor while shaping his novel from their make believe dialogues. A moral clash ends with a revelation that Rose is Sebastian Rule author of The Idealist, and they acknowledge mutual deception and plan future collaboration.
A New York Tribune quip recalls a well meaning neighbor who let a servant take a chicken on Thanksgiving. The tale ends with the wife noting the man’s holiday revels made him see double and steal two hens. In Alabama a washer woman’s child named Datchile waits for a name as tales of everyday humor unfold.
Visitors listed include E. H. Hopkins and wife from St. Louis H. L. Weil H. L. Pence Harry Lerrburger C A Goodsfund from New York L A Reinach of Richmond Va Gus Newald from Pittsburg E B Barker from Chicago A D Fifu from Dallas Texas and George Jackson from North Carolina.
A humorous street scene unfolds with a beggar and a lady in a door altercation. The tramp quips about being cremated while a rambling narrator recalls losing fifty three items of furniture to a robber, punctuated by a policeman’s puzzled remark.
A reader letter argues denatured alcohol could replace dangerous household gasoline and questions the impact on Standard Oil. It contends laws hurt some, aid others, and predicts independent oil firms may be wiped out while industry adapts over years.
George H. Warrington, of Cincinnati, announced in Columbus the Appleyard and Tucker-Anthony electric railway mileage totaling 349 miles has merged under Indiana Columbus and Western Traction Company. Randall Morgan of Philadelphia finances the $18,250,000 mortgage split into 12,000,000 and 6,250,000 portions to retire stock across sixteen counties.
The Foreign Minister told Parliament that the second International Peace Conference will not be held in the current year. The delay postpones planned sessions at The Hague.
The first half of the year shows a large life insurance business with the potential to match or exceed prior years. Connecticut Massachusetts New Jersey Pennsylvania and the West show gains as policies shift, proving life insurance as essential protection for homes and families.
In New York City many schools closed as rumor spread that children were at risk after adenoids removal surgeries. Parents flooded streets from the Bowery to East River, and police plus hundreds of patrolmen struggled to restore order while principals dismissed pupils.
Congressmen and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth return from Kfe and headlined a Dorchester House ball hosted by Ambassador and Mrs. Reid. The guest list includes Princess Christian, Princess Victoria, Lowther, Asquith, Gladstone, and notable Anglo Americans such as the Vanderbilts, Drexels, Higgins, and Whitridge.
Special dispatch from Portland reports Governor William T. Cobb was renominated by the Republican State Convention held June 27. The action affirms Cobb as the party’s gubernatorial candidate.
A travel diary chronicles arrival in Granada with a mugging incident at the station and then relief in the Alhambra Park. The writer notes Spanish scenery, a Washington Irving Hotel dinner, a dancing toddler, a pet lamb, goats milking under the window, and a persistent cathedral guide who lends a coin and roses. A long anecdote strand ranges from beggar intervention to a joke about the seven years itch and philosophical quips from a Scotsman.
A fragment from a Marion-At-Home poem by Isabelle Freeland notes how aging frightens the young. The speaker cites Osler on sixty as distant yet warns that modern “wise heads” push the idea forward. The verse captures youth’s anxiety about aging.
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