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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
5
Claude M. Andrews will speak at the Economic Club tonight at Vine Street Church on From Individualism to Individualist Through Socialism. Tax bills for late taxes will be ready Monday and taxpayers have six weeks to pay without penalty.
An employee at the Grand Opera House found a purse yesterday while cleaning the theater. The purse contained a $1,000 bill. Authorities are releasing details to locate the owner.
A business meeting of all the woman suffrage clubs in the city is set for tonight at 7 o’clock in Vine Street Congregational Church. Arrangements for open air meetings will be made.
Mrs. Walter Ault mourns the loss of a gold purse found Sunday near the Country Club. The purse is set with five sapphires and bears the engraving Hilda Steinehr.
Joseph Brown aged 16 a bootblack of 1123 Broadway was bitten on the arm by an unknown boy during a street fight yesterday. The arm swelled and grew discolored and he was rushed to City Hospital where the wound was cauterized.
Detectives Allen and Reed returned from Louisville with Anthony Ames, a colored suspect wanted on a murder charge. He is alleged to have killed Virgi Tully and wounded two men, Harvey and Neill, at an East Front Street lodging house last June.
Henry Jefferson 88 of 911 Saratoga Newport Ala fell on the sidewalk near Plum yesterday and fractured his skull. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
City Hospital doctors say William F. Ray will recover after he inhaled gas Tuesday at his Massachusetts avenue residence. Detectives Callahan and Jackson hold a warrant for his arrest following a confrontation with Charles Mosby who claims Ray swindled him out of 800 dollars.
Postal reports show 15.25 million letters and circulars sent through Cincinnati mails in April. City carriers delivered 9,630,430 items, with 148,975 registered packages and total postal receipts of 182,775 dollars and 43 cents.
Simpkinson and Miller invite patrons to a color photography demonstration titled the Art of Color. The event is scheduled for Friday next, during two sessions at 11 and 4 o clock, at 433 Elm Street.
Invitations have been issued for the May 11 cornerstone ceremony of the International Bureau of the American Republics headquarters in Washington. The U S government instrument for fostering ties with South American nations, the event will feature President Roosevelt the Brazilian Ambassador Cardinal Gibbons Bishop Cranston and Andrew Carnegie among the participants in the laying service.
At Music Hall the Pure Food Show featured a baby display with seventy five entries. First prize ten dollars went to Baby Ethel with winner Mrs Pierson the 616 West McMicken address. Second place tied between Marie Lucella and Mary Jeanette, mothers drawing cuts to decide. Marie Lucella earned five dollars for Mrs Huber and Mary Jeanette earned two fifty for Mrs Ernst. The regular baby exhibit is set for tomorrow at 3 PM and Kentucky Day will follow.
The May meeting of the Laughery Club in Chicago discussed sending a vote to the Western Fire Committee and reported Laughery Club grounds booked for Saturday June 20 with Schnapps Band secured. New Lumbermen’s Club president B F Dulwebery attended and spoke briefly. New members elected include W J Sextro Albert Ficks W H Kaufmann Julius Berger Johnolf.
Excelsior Lodge No. 369 F and A M holds a special meeting today at 1 15 p m to honor and end peace of departed brother John Loy Verin Eb el W M presiding officer and lodge leaders call members to attend and observe the rites.
Special convocation of Daicho G. Council P. and Gibulum Lodge May 11 to confer 15th degree and elect officers for the year. Ohio Consistory 8 P R S V 32 to meet at 7 45 p m for business. Also special meeting May 9 with Cuba lecture by Be Gerrard after petitions. Keefer Potentate.
Obituaries and burial permits for multiple individuals across Cincinnati area including Flinchbaugh Vivian E 9, Gerwe Bernard H 31, Gerbus George 61, Gethard Elizabeth, Ludlow Randall Hunt, Longworth Elizabeth 78, Mavoy Gordon Wright, Walters Lizzie, and others. Includes burial dates May 7 8 9 1908, church services at Miami M E Mt Healthy St Henry's St Pauls, and hospital deaths with causes such as pneumonia meningitis tuberculosis cancer heart disease. Burial permits list Thomas Hayes 50 Frank Grames 55 Roach Thomas 5 Gruner Marie 10 Jenkins Josip 50 Kramer Joseph 4 Mavoy Gordon 1 Dangerfield Namid 50 Monch David 57 Aiello Gennara 19 Lee William 49 Weber Julia 3 Allen King 20 Hoyd Stanely 1 O Bani on Benj 58.
A long list presents marriage license applicants with names and residence details including William L. Johnson 837 York St, Margaret Smith 41808 Baymilley, Clarence E. Orr Kings Mills, and many others. Entries cover multiple cities and streets, showing extensive personal data such as addresses and associated individuals.
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