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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1908
Page
7
A 240 page illustrated guide titled Don’t Marry Doctor or Despair offers medical and relationship guidance. It promises clear answers on health disease love marriage and parentage and invites adults to order by postage.
Secretary Taft and General Bell led a cavalry and artillery review at Fort Meyer as a moving picture company captured candid footage. Mrs Taft and Mr and Mrs Charles Taft joined the party as Taft appeared without posed portraits.
Prof Isaac Joslin Cox of the University of Cincinnati was re elected president of the Cincinnati History Teachers Association at its annual meeting. New officers include Fred W Dearness Emily R Collins Lucy B Ambrose Florence Schulte J O Falkinburg Eleanor C O Connell J P Cummins with executive members named.
About two hundred Elks from Cincinnati Covington Newport and Bellevue gathered for an informal reception in Covington Lodge to honor William Jennings Bryan. Bryan spoke briefly on fraternities after arriving late from Central Garden and was escorted by R G Williams to the exalted ruler seat. He said he had joined the Elks eight years ago and shifted from prejudice to belief in the lodge’s usefulness, noting initiation words can have moral impact.
A Chicago wholesale grocer Mr W M Hoyt endorses the Stolz Electrophone, praising its small size and hearing aid quality after eight months. He notes hearing a normal voice at six to ten feet and recommends inquiries for demonstrations and personal testing of the device. The letter invites physicians to invest and test, listing multiple city offices.
Evanston voters prepare for March 23 election at the Grand Hotel amid a fierce Reds vs Blues contest for Welfare League control. Reds press claims of reform and urge support for C. A. Culbertson and the Red ticket, while Blues back J. J. Castellini.
The final decree in the Oberlin M. Carter case was issued by Judge Kohlsaat in Chicago. Carter, a former United States Engineer Corps captain, largely wins, with a $45 000 award deemed taint free while government costs of the litigation are assessed to the state. The litigation involved about $400 000 in funds, much of which Carter claimed came from his father in law, Robert F Westcott, with earlier rulings finding a large portion tainted.
Mayor Markbreit suspended Patrolman John T. Long for two months without pay and ordered a re examination before returning to duty. Dr. Schneller met with the mayor regarding church work. Measures proposed include lodging house law, park and street repairs, and equipment purchases. Public health updates show measles cases 92, typhoid one, tuberculosis 24 deaths, and Flexner serum used in eight meningococcal meningitis cases with three deaths.
The fortification appropriation bill passed the House without material amendments. Debate criticized War Department spending on Subig Bay fortifications while Cavite defense was urged. A proposed amendment to buy abroad was limited to limited quantities. The bill totals $32,945,631 with Senate additions of $642,718.
The pie eating season in Cincinnati runs April 20 to May 9 with homes hotels and restaurants serving pies and at least one hundred thousand pies given away at the pure food show opening in Music Hall on April 2. Master Bakers' Association plans a full bakery operation at the show with Simon Hubig noting thousands of loaves and at least one hundred thousand pies will be given away in sight of the public.
William Nelson Post G A R celebrated its twenty sixth anniversary with the Woman's Relief Corps and families as guests at a supper and ball. Music was by Miss Mutz Viola Foote and Mr Daum. The committee included Colonel Bell Fred Feister Raubestein Davis David Pierson and J B Cefalu. Colonel Bell and Mrs Allen Clark led the grand march.
W E B Hutton, a broker, credited the recovery of his lost diamond to Mrs. Bocklage of Cumminsville who works at the Grand Opera House. Hutton awarded Milton Bocklage, Mrs Bocklage’s son, fifty dollars on Friday night for aiding the recovery.
Law and Order League officers will continue their crusade today targeting saloon keepers with evidence to be gathered mainly from downtown proprietors.
Senator Foraker has been confined to his house under physician orders for several days. The grip is diagnosed but not considered dangerous, though doctors advise staying in to avoid risk of complications.
A band of about 40 night riders killed Hiram Hedges, an independent tobacco grower, in Carlisle Kentucky after demanding his bed and threatening violence. His son C H Hedges later described the attack and the mob’s actions as they fled, with news noting it as the first bluegrass district murder by riders.
Paducah reports Circuit Judge William Reed who led a special Marshall County jury to probe night riding received a long distance phone warning from Benton saying night riders threaten him and Commonwealth's Attorney John D. Lovett who leads the investigation.
Thomas H. Haines of 2012 Dunlap street died at Betts Street Hospital from injuries after falling from a wagon in Riverside Friday night. He was 22 and the son of Private Detective Harry Haines.
California bound excursion trains depart Cincinnati each Tuesday at 6 p.m. traveling through Louisville New Orleans Houston San Antonio El Paso to Los Angeles and then San Francisco. Rates are half the normal sleeper fare. Contact B O S W Illinois Central or Southern Pacific or write C H Wiseman or Joseph Biggs or W H Connor for details.
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