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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
4
The fragment lists the Commercial Tribune's post office entry notice in Cincinnati, date May 6, 198, and begins subscription rate info by mail with terms for various durations, including annual and six month options. It names E. O. Eshelby as president.
Delivered by carrier and by copy. Foreign countries include Great Britain and the Continent. Subscriptions: one month 1.50, three months six months 9.00, one year 18.00. Postage prepaid by advance payment. Office addresses listed for branch bureaus in Walnut Hills, Wington, Newport, Washington, and London.
Rain prevailed yesterday between the Rock Mountains and the Ohio Valley as a low pressure area dominated conditions. Springlike temperatures were common with Cincinnati recording a low of 42 and a high around 64. The Weather Bureau noted rainfall totals and temperature deficits for the day and compared May 4 1908 with prior years.
Ohio sees rain Tuesday with partial clearing Tuesday night. Kentucky reports showers and cooler conditions Tuesday into Wednesday. Virginia forecasts rain Tuesday and likely Wednesday with cloudy skies and fresh northeast to east winds in southern areas.
Shipping notices list arrivals and sailings across European and North Atlantic ports. Vessels include the Etruria Republic Cretic Kaiser Wilhelm Kronprinzessin Cecilie and others with routes from New York Genoa Bremen and more plus predicated dockings and sailings near Plymouth Cherbourg Glasgow Havre and Halifax.
The World announces a May 10 Twenty-fifth Anniversary Number with about two hundred pages. It will cost nearly $100,000 to print and produce each copy around ten cents. Color sections cover automobiles music real estate and New York. Also features the first class newspaper comic and magazine. Order at once.
A brief notice lists Mrs. F H Butler and Miss BE Butler registered at The Herald office. The filing appears in the May issue of the Commercial Tribune as a private record of residence.
Twenty million dollars were subscribed in London within two hours and New York subscribed for the full 20 million allotted for home consumption, with total bond applications reaching 500 million. The piece notes renewed domestic confidence and implicit faith in American securities abroad, while stressing that progress comes from national rather than city or regional credit. It argues rail improvements will proceed without speculative risk, and that market flurries are short lived in a solid United States economy.
The Berlin university and German commercial classes urge world consensus to shift the prime meridian from Greenwich to a continental European point. They argue nearby electric industry disrupts observatory accuracy but admit charts and systems worldwide would face upheaval. world acceptance requires strong proof of Greenwich observation inaccuracy. Meanwhile remarks on Kentucky politics and Mr. Bryan’s self description as a demagogue appear in passing.
Ten inches of snow blanketed New York on May Day, a rare wintery blast striking the governor Hughes home town and disrupting travel and daily life across the city.
The piece compares Taft to McKinley, arguing the Republican nomination will mirror 1900 as Taft’s national stature and leadership ensure a smooth path. It highlights Taft’s proven record as War Secretary, unsullied character, and wide public recognition shaping voter confidence.
A column assembles reader concerns on transit conductors informing passengers of routes the Civil War pension debate, excursionists in town, and hotel staff handling phones with diplomacy. The piece also shares advice on miller moth disposal with cedar oil and notes aging habits and drinking.
Katharine C. Mullikin of Cincinnati endorses reducing German study in public schools and accelerating Americanization. She argues for a national language focus to assimilate immigrants, noting Germans' contribution to U S history and urging no extra prominence for German over languages of commerce and literature. She calls for public sentiment to end German in primary grades while allowing later study.
A long sequence of names and cities appears, listing individuals such as Honing James Pope H M Schulbach C L Valentine John L Paul Lackman H F Brakemeyer John T Todd Joe Goldberger A D Caldwell George B Osgood Mrs T J Gordon Mr and Mrs John E McMillan F Edmondson Palace J C Emmons and many more with scattered towns like Chicago Zanesville Attleboro Knoxville Dayton Syracuse Cleveland Pittsburg Indianapolis Lexington and Philadelphia. The fragmentary OCR reads as a roster of attendees or participants with their home cities and states.
Columbus prepares to nominate Judge Judson Harmon for Ohio governor and send Bernard to Denver to back a Harmon presidential bid amid a web of rumors and shifting allegiances. Bernard says Harmon could win a Denver nomination and pull Ohio for him, while Harmon's camp downplays the plan as speculation.
The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club endorsed Councilman O'Brien's bird park ordinance and adopted a protest against freight-rate hikes. A Milwaukee June convention for the National Hardwood Lumbermen's Association was arranged, and old lumber inspection rules from 1905 were supported. Officers elected saw a tight race with Dulweber winning as president after a straw vote.
Over two hundred bakers arrive in Cincinnati for the Master Bakers' Association convention. President Simon Hubig leads ceremonies at the Grand Hotel as the group socializes with music and verse performances by Bernard McDermott and William Tuechter.
Cincinnati groups press for a safety test of the Eighth Street Bridge over the C and H D R R tracks. The Board of Public Service says any testing must be paid by the organizing body, with access to engineering papers but no city funds. Advocates insist the test will occur, by other means if needed.
The Oberlin College Alumni Association held its annual dinner and meeting at the Business Men's Club with about thirty attendees. Endowment stands at 1 700 000 dollars, up 1 000 000 in ten years, annual income 225 000, and student numbers doubled since 1898. Officers elected include Judge A C Shattuck as President and William M Ampt as Vice President.
Josephine Brink aged 45 from Maysville Kentucky disappeared after leaving her St. James Building hosts to attend St Xavier's Church on Sycamore street. She carried money and was last seen Sunday. Delia Malcolm reported her absence to police as districts were alerted.
Union Board of High Schools limits tickets for graduation in Music Hall on June 5. A first-year girl will receive one ticket, while second and third-year students get two. Graduates receive eight, teachers two, principals five, and school board members five each.
A new bronchoscope procedure shown by Dr. J. W. Murphy removes foreign objects from the throat without surgery. The device, invented by Killian and Jackson, was tested on a model and discussed as a potential life saver for swallowed objects. The instrument uses a silver tube and a tiny grappling tool under anesthesia to extract the item through the mouth and trachea. It will be used at City Hospital.
Police examine three brass devices resembling the Horstman bomb and learn they are soda filled with unidentified material. Tests suggest the casings may be parts of an automatic sprinkler, with no present danger. The cases tie to the Phoenix Club bombing and Dayton steel-work blast, but no clue emerges. Edward Horstman is recovering, eye at risk.
Police asked to locate 14 year old Robert Lee Conlin who is said to be wandering the city in search of his father. Conlin works as a business agent for the Woodmen of the World and recently opened an office at Ninth and John streets while his family stayed in Chattanooga. The boy followed, locating rooms on Wilstach street, then learned his father had left Arlington Hotel. The youth began a tearful search for his father as the parent also searches.
The Norwood council passed ordinances for cement sidewalks on Kennelworth and Poplar streets, approved payments to Bullock Electric and United States Playing Card for sewers, and shifted funds among Public Service, Water Works accounts. A Presbyterian Brotherhood meeting named A R Bloomfield as delegate for a Walnut Hills assembly.
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