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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
8
Potatoes slide toward common levels as prices drop from about 12 per barrel to 8 50 and 8 last week and 2 76 to 3 a bushel on Thursday. Merchants anticipate further declines toward 5 a barrel within a week and 3 50 to 4 wholesaling by mid August. Leverone notes new crop arrivals from all directions and the early harvest is starting.
Potatoes once selling for 8.50 last week now go for 5 with mid August prices expected to match last year. Quality is excellent, bugs caused little damage, and the crop appears unusually large. Commission men buy cautiously as the drop drags down the broader vegetable market and wholesale prices fall.
Albert Geldreich, 52, tinsmith of 1626 Pleasant Street, confessed to killing John Keller, 54, cigar maker of 1554 Dudley Street, describing the fight and disposal of the body from June 19 to 20. He led detectives through the crime scene and his movements, saying the death occurred in self defense after a knife wound. He was jailed at the County Jail and faces Municipal Court arraignment.
Chief Clerk Woellner revised the June 5 registration and filed the report with the Selective Draft Board. He urges more prep time and standardized card numbering for future registrations. Total potential cost of registration services was 9170, saved by volunteer effort. Of 48471 registrants, 40585 were city residents and 7886 lived in the country.
J O White head of Ohio Public Welfare reports to a Columbus meeting of the special Committee on Vagrancy that the committee recommends surveying vagrancy in major cities prosecutions under state and local laws and the establishment of concentration camps for vagrants to haul hoboes from roads and freight cars into productive labor.
Harmony Council and Daughters of America join for a Fourth of July event at Harvest Home Grove Cheviot. An old-time patriotic family reunion will feature prizes and community festivities.
George Groneman aged 52 of 1051 Celestial Street employed by the city suffered a fractured skull and a broken left hip when he fell from a wagon at the intersection of Quebec and Westwood Avenues Thursday afternoon. He was taken to General Hospital.
A tableaux by children and athletic contests open the Phoenix Country Club Fourth of July celebration. Judge Fred Hoffman delivers an address, a band is chartered for the event, and a program of patriotic airs is planned.
A federal judge voids the Dayton sale of the Delphos and Ironton divisions of the C., H. & D. Railroad on grounds there was no authority to sell in parcels. The Cincinnati to Toledo main stem sale remains confirmed. Farmers along the Delphos line protested the parceling and potential loss of transportation access.
The Y M C A summer camp at Marble Creek on the Kentucky River two miles below Valley View Ky will open Saturday for youths 12 years or older for a ten day stay at low cost. The camp aims to provide preparatory military training and varied recreation. About sixty boys are expected to depart Saturday at 8 oclock aboard the Queen Crescent Road.
Dr. A. W. Nelson of 5 Garfield place mailed $30 to Dr. William J. Topmoeller now a U S Army lieutenant, as the 30 percent fee recommended by the Ohio State Medical Association. Nelson attended a patient formerly treated by Topmoeller, who is in the service. The payment follows the association resolution, possibly a Cincinnati first.
Towns along the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad petition Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce to help retain the line sold to Josephs Company of Cincinnati for junk. They cite increased hay and grain shipments to Cincinnati and warn many towns would lose transport means. Stay of sale already secured in Federal Court.
Dr. R D Blume the city food inspector announced that returns of stale bread to bakeries banned by the Council of National Defense have been discontinued by all Cincinnati bakers. Schulze Baking Company confirms no longer accepting unsold bread returns. The War Emergency Committee of the National Association of Master Bakers now handles enforcement.
The Prevention of Waste Committee of the Cincinnati War Council announced openings for community kitchens on June 29. Instructors in canning will train women at designated centers while Mrs. Anna Gilchrist Strong leads registration for Cincinnati women per the National Council of Defense. A committee chaired by Dr. R. D. Blume will organize activities tied to the Pure Food Show at Chester Park in August.
Council Committee on Steam Railroads on Thursday recommends passage of a wartime daylight switching ordinance for Water and Front streets.
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