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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
An advertisement touts Cadomene Tablets as a cure for diminished vigor and nerve weakness. It claims improved brain activity, willpower, and bodily endurance, with purchase available at Dow Drug Stores in Cincinnati, Gilmore Drug Co in Covington, and five other druggists, guaranteed money back.
Park crowds will enjoy big fireworks and holiday events while park programs include photoplays and vaudeville. A $1.50 steak or chicken dinner will be served, reiterated as last year’s draw, with reservations available by phone.
At Chester Park Chester Beach draws thousands of water lovers as heat grips the region. Lifesavers, big husky young men, stand ready to supervise swimmers who venture beyond their strength, though this season has seen little call for their help.
Johnny Matthews of Lexington, a 17 year old in Company A Signal Corps at Ft. Thomas, gazes at Coney Island across the river. He notes a thousand lights, misreads Camp Proctor on his map, and jokes that Cincinnati is a grand military town as Wild West show gunplay and bands unfold on the island.
Reservations are being taken for Chester Park clubhouse dinners for next Tuesday with noon and evening seatings available.
Manager I M Martin confirms arrangements with fireworks firms for Chester's big Fourth of July show. Smittie's Prize Band performs a patriotic concert and cabaret. vaudeville features Midgie Miller Callahan Brothers Alvarado and his Goat Circus. Also Les Valedons Cecile Dunham Short and the Miller Sisters highlighted.
Tyrone Power stars in the birth control play Where Are My Children at the Grand Opera House. A District Attorney exposes a fashionable doctor's malpractice after a young woman dies from an illegal operation. His investigation uncovers his childless marriage and features a concert orchestra and contralto soloist.
The Little Girl Next Door shown at the Alhambra Theater frames a girl adrift in a striking moral drama. Advocates urge parents to see it to recognize many pitfalls set for young girls in a great city. An eminent vice authority praises the film as a great national service.
The Summer Orchestra led by Chevalier Spirescu offers a popular program tonight and a classical program tomorrow featuring the New World Symphony. Banda Roma, a famed foreign band, will follow at the Zoo. Today is Business Men's Club Day with a $1 table d hote dinner at the clubhouse.
The zoo plans its largest ever fireworks show at 9 PM on the Fourth with extra preparations for spectator comfort during the day. Manager Tom Goodwin notes elaborate clubhouse provisions and a range of garden attractions for visitors.
A Triangle program at the Family Theater features Mae Marsh Wilfred Lucas and Rober Harron in A Wild Girl of the Sierras from Fine Arts studios. The plot centers on a romance between a young American and a girl raised in the woods after her father vanished and her mother died in the 1849 gold rush. Mack Swain in Ambrose's Bitter Cup, Keystone comedy, and Frank Keenan in The Phantom headline a four day run starting Sunday.
Next week B F Keith's Theater lays out a diverse program starting with Brown and McCormack in a pantomimic dancing act. The Vernons offer ventriloquism and Vincent and Gertrude Van Dyck perform piano and song. Skipper Kennedy and Reeves sing and dance. Miss Bessie Clifford presents Fashions Aflame in a posing act.
Clark's Vaudeville Company begins engagement at Lagoon Theater this Saturday afternoon with a program featuring the Wests in a big laughing specialty Brinkley and Flynn John Max a German character comedian the Guthries aerialists on Roman ladders and other meritorious acts Performances run every night with a matinee on Saturday and Sunday.
A cafe dansant has opened at the Chester clubhouse with a cleared space on the porch where patrons have danced the light fantastic for several nights. The venture is planned as a permanent future feature.
The Lyric presents The Masked Sider with Harold Lockwood and May Allison as chief attraction and Anna Nilsson and Tom Moore in Who's Guilty. Beyond Recall also shown. Friday and Saturday feature Jose Collins in A Woman's Honor and Willier Collier in Willie's Wobbly Ways along with a Keystone comedy.
Anna Pennington of the Ziegfeld Follies stars in Susie Snowflake a Daniel Frohman production starting a three day run at the Strand Theater this morning. The show follows a girl who rises to stardom while facing heartache and a chilly barn setting with overbearing aunts. A Bray Animated Cartoon is also presented. Pauline Frederick stars in The World's Great Snare for the first four days of next week.
Alph Herz and Irene Howley debut in The Purple Lady a Metro wonder play about a stolen necklace passed through a Purple Cafe dancer to a fiancÉ who is torn between duty and romance. A detective untangles the plot as the Paramount Pictograph accompanies the bill.
Wireless stations around Boston picked up a radio gram claiming a German submarine bound for America was spotted off Provincetown. The Boston Chamber official reported no sighting, while Navy Yard authorities noted American submarines practicing nearby.
St Louis won the 1917 convention of the Advertising Clubs of the World in Philadelphia after a contest with Cincinnati Denver and St Paul. Cincinnati plans for 1918 in St Louis are noted as well as executive nominees William Ganson Rose W W Cloud and Frank E Rowe. President Wilson to address delegates in Independence Square tomorrow afternoon.
Charles W. Kendall of Greendale and Stella Mae Morgan of Corinth Ky wed in Covington after failing to obtain a license in Cincinnati due to residency rules. Rev E L Griffy performed the ceremony in Clerk Dillon's office before the couple returned to Kentucky.
A rabid dog attacked eight year old Mary Konnermann on Berry street as children played. Henry W. Konnermann beat off the dog with a baseball bat. A physician treated the girl twice, and the dog’s carcass was sent to the health office for brain examination for rabies.
Edward Kelley fell from a trapeze into the bathing pool at Chester Park and was rescued with difficulty by three life savers. He appeared to suffer a stroke like episode and was revived at the first aid station before being taken to the General Hospital for the night. Doctors said his condition was not serious.
The item notes the UAPET discussion drifting off topic and confusing replies. It records unclear engagement as participants fail to stay within the thread’s focus.
Will Orpet faced sharp cross examination as he described his movements before Marion Lambert's death. The State pressed his routine from Madison to Milwaukee Chicago and Lake Forest to show motive and opportunity. Orpet recalled a morning tryst plan and a phone call with Lambert but could not remember many details.
In Washington on June 28 John H. Clarke Federal Judge Cleveland district may replace Charles E Hughes as Supreme Court justice. Clarke met with his fellow Ohioans Secretary of War Newton D Baker and Senator Pomerene conferred with President Wilson urging Clarke appointment.
Down the river yesterday the stage was 2.1 feet and falling. Towboats and barges moved upriver including the Enterprise towing a coal load to Cairo and the Majestic excursion boat to New Richmond. Captains Slack Barrett and James Hooff were noted with crews and pilots as work continued along the dams and riverfront.
In Indianapolis the Antisaloon League sessions discuss prohibiting liquor ads in dry areas and opposing ties between temperance groups and political parties. P A Baker favors endorsements by parties, while Rev James Empringham reprised the Syracuse hotel scene to emphasize moral peril.
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