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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1908
Page
11
Our line features khaki cloth suits riding outfits and embroidery trimmed garments for boating fishing and camping. Tailor-made shirts in exclusive designs priced low. About 50 models formerly $30 to $45 now $25. Skirts in silk voile and Panama discounted to $5 $7.50 or $10 from $10 to $18.
A lengthy column describes a royal couple arriving in Moscow and discusses Tennessee prohibition politics with travel notes, social events, and regional attitudes. The piece interweaves personal travelogue, humorous anecdotes, and critiques of dry and wet factions, ending with hopeful calls for measured policy.
Officials and citizens debate a state law forcing Cincinnati to form a three to seven member Board of Education by luck. Names listed include J. M. Withrow Louis Schwab Emil Pollak and many other members. Superintendent Dyer praises the large board for progress while warning changes may affect school leadership.
The schools now cover gymnasia yard apparatus and outdoor athletics. Special provisions exist for deaf blind foreign and retarded pupils and truants. Manual training and domestic art are provided for intermediate and first year high school students. Twenty four shops twenty four kitchens well equipped. Kindergarten integrated with twenty five kindergartens. Evening schools expanded offering stenography bookkeeping millinery dressmaking cooking shop work and other courses. Public lectures chorus classes and gymnasium programs for youth. Vacation schools opened in rural districts. Teachers salaries liberalized with merit system and College for Teachers supporting teacher education.
A reader praises the Benzol Dry Cleaning Company after having an old riding suit cleaned. She notes it looked nearly new and credits Mrs Founder for recommending the service. She mentions the company’s phone number 82 and expresses gratitude for the savings and transformation.
Tennessee officials report Groe diagnosed by Peck as immigration retarded. Shipping point shifted from Chattanooga to arid districts of Georgia and Alabama.
In Brookville Pennsylvania on May 2 farmer Frank Swineford living near Knoxdale Jefferson County shot and killed an unidentified robber who forced his way in by kicking the door. Swineford fired three times as the intruder advanced upstairs after robbing three nearby houses earlier in the evening.
An advertisement claims a secret method to develop the bust arms and neck using a home applied nerve stimulant mix. It instructs mixing glycerine tincture cadomene rose water borax and applying morning and night for weeks to yield “well rounded” features.
May 2 Abilene Kansas reports Mrs Frank Sullivan, living north of town, averages the sale of eighteen dozen eggs daily from white Leghorns. She ships 1200 eggs weekly.
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