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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1908
Page
5
An advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a strengthening tonic that expels humors and tones the stomach. It notes no changes in formula to meet the Pure Food and Drugs Law and markets liquid and chocolate tablet forms with 100 doses for one dollar.
The Kings Heralds of the Methodist Episcopal Church held their district meeting at Wesley Chapel with Miss Gaddis presiding and ushers named Edna White Frances Hicks Marie Young Marie Kolp Stella Seward. Alumni planning for Cincinnati Wesleyan College gathering at Burnet House on June 9 after a Wiley Chapel meeting at the Western Methodist Book Concern. The Rev Francis W Thomas elderly Friends minister and Albert Copeland from Harsham College attend today’s Highth and Mound street meeting, with Dr Thomas still a forceful speaker.
Two men tried to rob Miss Lucy Williams of Lawrenceburg Indiana near Reading road and Florence avenue yesterday but were beaten off by Clarence Rodgers an assistant gardener at Eden Park.
Michael Sullivan age 38 failed to notice an approaching freight train while trying to cross at Eighth and West streets. He suffered the loss of his right foot and was rushed by Patrol 2 to City Hospital for treatment.
Preparations are underway for an entertainment by the Young People of the Fifth Presbyterian Church. The Old District School has been rehearsed with new wit and updated music. The event will be held next Friday evening at the church to benefit the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor.
S C Speers, 55, self described salesman and son in law of ex Lieutenant Governor Fisk of Kentucky, attempted suicide in a Stag Hotel room yesterday by cutting his throat with a razor. Dr William Herman summoned and advised to remove him to the institution in serious condition.
Dr Bertram of the United States Sanitary Inspection Corps and Building Inspector Kuhlman will jointly enforce the sanitation laws. They report many city slaughterhouses fail current standards and must be brought up to par immediately.
Philip Hedrick of Muncie Ind was robbed of 60 dollars on a Vine-Norwood street car. He boarded at McMillan street and Cilbert avenue and found the money missing after alighting at Chapel street.
A Cincinnati feature extols the thrifty youth who save, noting Queen City Bank at Fifth and Vine offers savings accounts and certificates of deposit. It highlights annual interest and the value of disciplined saving for a secure future.
Union plumbers press the bosses for carfare allowances and for payment on Saturday noon as part of a new work year pay scale. The employers reject all terms, proposing changes to the current rate, and a special meeting is set at Trades Union Hall Court Street to decide. If no agreement is reached, a strike may follow, though conservative members favor negotiation.
Nineteen indictments charge thirty four individuals with running bucket shops across Cincinnati. The targets include the O'Dell Brokerage, Stapely and Co., Morehead & Co., and Brown firms with bonds, hotels, and offices named as fronts. Bond set at 500 each. prosecutors plan further probes into aiding firms and telegraph operators.
A Fitchburg Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce committee visiting Cincinnati endorses Dean Herman Schneider’s cooperative education system. Two students share sequential work in a factory and classroom, swapping roles daily to blend practical training with academic study, a model Fitchburg plans to adopt in its public schools.
Detectives seek the couple seen near Ninth and Race streets after a Phoenix Club bomb exploded injuring a bartender. A $500 reward is offered by the club for arrests and conviction. Community notices list fraternal con-claves and obituaries for Bomkamp, Magevney, McDonald, Nougaret, Schmidt, Werpup, and others with funeral details.
In embroideries a complete line of Royal Society Package Goods is offered at low prices. Night gowns chemise drawers and scrub items are shown along with Swiss embroidered dresser scarfs pillow shams and hand made cluny squares and centers. Special values include 18 and 20 inch centers at 0.98 and cluny squares at 1.39.
A dense list of names ages and addresses appears with hospital assignments and pending inquest notes. Entries include Alice Roether 4 at City Hospital with cirrhosis Elsie Seng 15 months at 2457 Western Ave with pneumonia and Grace Carney 31 at City Hospital with acute mania.
Ad listing fine undergarments with French cambric details. Corset covers and chemises priced from 69c to 1.00 and refined drawers up to 12.00. Bridal trousseau offered in exclusive styles.
Special prices on drawers and corset covers with values ranging from 25c to $1 and up. We manufacture silk and fabric petticoats negligees kimonas and dressing sacs and all items are on sale at low prices. Garments altered and fitted free of charge.
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