Fraternities Defend High School Role Amidst Debate
Cincinnati Delta Beta alumni and leaders defend high school fraternities against a proposed ban. They argue fraternities neither seek school control nor snobbishness and claim they help character, scholarship, and leadership without interfering in duties.
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Ohio
al F. Leue
Cincinnati Alumni Association of
Delta Beta
Hughes High School
Wendell Campbell
Cincinnati
Delta Beta Fraternity
Waters
Bishop
Gosling
Ritchey
Ocker
King
Funeral for Dr W C Hughes Held Today
The funeral for Dr W C Hughes 61 of Cleves Ohio took place at 2 30 this afternoon. He died Thursday from probable acute indigestion after earlier paralysis and a paralytic stroke. Survived by widow and children Kenneth and Mary. Kenneth reportedly in Texas or Colorado and not yet located despite telegrams.
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W. C. Hughes
Cleves
Dr. Hughes
John Hughes
Ezekiel Hughes
Miami Township
Heating and Ventilating Highlands School bids sought
Sealed proposals will be received at the Clerk of the Board of Education office on the third floor of City Hall until noon May 2 1908 for a heating and ventilating system in Highlands School Building at Eastern and Lewis Avenues Cincinnati Ohio. Bids must show all interested parties and include a disinterested guaranty of 30 percent. Specifications are on file with Mechanical Engineer E N Hannaford Pickerin Building Cincinnati Ohio.
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Board of Education
City Hall
Highlands
Eastern and
Lewis Avenues
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mechanical Enineer
E. N. Hannaford
Pickerin
J. M
Death Calls "Happy Jack" of Plum Street Mission
John Clarenshaw known as Happy Jack led Plum Street Mission 512 Plum Street for eighteen years aiding wanderers sick and hungry. An English convert from London he founded the mission after a reformed past including a violent plan. Survived by wife and three children of Mt Auburn 72. Special mission services Tuesday and funeral Wednesday at St. Paul’s Methodist.
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Death
Jack
Plum Street
John Clarenshaw
Happy Jack
Clarenshaw
West End
Cincinnati
McClain
Sixth and
Plum Streets
London
England
Southern Avenue
Mt. Auburn
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
City Council Finance Committee Meets To Plan Bond Solution
A City Council session previews a Finance Committee meeting to devise a plan for funding during the bond power outage. The agenda also covers Streets and Parks items including a third Evans Woods home park and regulation of peddlers. Health hearings on barber shop surveillance and a five year contract with the Cincinnati Reduction Company for garbage removal are also on the docket.
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Evans Woods
Charles Dury
Committee On Health
Klein
Health Department
Cincinnati Reduction Company
Couple Feeds Off McPheeters Home Theft
Mrs. Mary McPheeters of 756 Richmond Street reports a rented room couple stole into her boarding house and took furniture clothing and $11 over five days before fleeing. Police seek the pair who left the premises stripped of belongings.
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Mary McPheeters
Richmond Street
Peace Day Observance Outlined For Public Schools
The district will observe Peace Day with no fixed program. Superintendent Dyer said principals decide details. Lower grades will sing patriotic songs and discuss the peace movement. high schools cover arbitration benefits.
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Dyer
Varous
Dr Reamy Improves Tied to Cincinnati Medical Leader
Dr William Gillespie president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine received a telegram last evening stating that Dr Thaddeus Reamy of Cincinnati now ill in the Clarendon Hotel Zanesville is considerably better. Dr Reamy was a noted local physician who resided with Dr Gillespie during his visit. Gillespie married Reamy's niece. Dr C L Bonifield is a nephew of Reamy.
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William Gillespie
Cincinnati Academy of Medicine
Thaddeus Reamy
Clarendon Hotel
Zanesville
Reamy
Cincinnati
Gillespie
C. L. Bonifield
Grocer Bartolini Reports Theft At Central Avenue Store
G Bartolini grocer of 408 Central Avenue told police last night that during the day he was robbed of 60 in cash a 30 check and valuable books and papers kept in a tin box behind the store counter. He claims to know the thief and will pursue an arrest warrant today. The check was drawn on Market National Bank.
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G. Bartolini
Central Avenue
Market National Bank
Rev Madison Peters Delivers Baccalaureate Sermon
The Rev Madison Peters gave the baccalaureate address at the Cincinnati Missionary Training School 1029 Wesley Avenue yesterday afternoon. Four graduates Miss Bertha Jones Miss Margaret Dickens Miss Jennie Brown and Miss Grace Hartster will begin deaconess duties after Thursday’s exercises in the Elizabeth Gamble Deaconess Home chapel.
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Madison Peters
Madison. Peters
Cincinnati Missionary Training School
Wesley Avenue
Elizabeth Gamble
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Bertha Jones
Margaret Dickens
Jennie Brown
Grace Hartster
Car Explodes on Twelfth Street Injuring Chauffeur
Joseph Moore, 32, of 246 East Fifth street, narrowly escaped death when a car owned by F. B. Maertz exploded after he paused to inspect it on Twelfth street between Race and Elm. Moore suffered burns to head face and arms. Fire crews fought the blaze. damage listed at 3500 dollars. Moore was taken home. his family was at risk as the fire threatened a nearby frame house.
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Joseph Moore
F. B. Maertz
Plum Street
Twelfth Street
Race
Elm
Moore
East Fifth Street
Thompson
Welsh
Twelfth
Elm Streets
Farm Hand Confesses to Triple Murder in Wickatunk
Frank Zantera, a farm hand for William B. Sheppard, confessed to Andrew J. C. Stokes and Monmouth County police that he shot Mrs. Sheppard, Mr. Sheppard, and Jennie Benty during a robbery at Wickatunk New Jersey. He described firing on each victim as they moved through the house.
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Commercial Tribune
Matawan
N. J
Frank Zantera
William B. Sheppard
Wickatunk
Sheppard
Jennie Bendy
Andrew J. C. Stokes
Monmouth County
Jennie Benty
Goebel Forges Action On Bills In Congress
Washington May 17 The Cincinnati representative Herman P Goebel drives key amendments to the Postoffice appropriation bill including higher pay for city letter carriers postal clerks and railway mail clerks traveling expenses and a ship subvention provision He works to win support in both House and Senate despite opposition and warns that the measures may be altered in conference.
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Commercial Tribune Burn AC
Monsey BoiLpine
Washington
D. C
J Special Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Herman P. Goebel
Cincinnati
Congress
Goebel
Postoffice
Conference Committee
Houses of Congress
Representative Goebel
House
Committee On
Overstreet
Post Office Committee
Senate
Carter
Montana
House Committee On the Judiciary
Foster
Indiana
Post Office
Ralph D. Cole
Findlay
Countess of Warwick
Duchess of Manchester
Countess de Chambrun
Nicholas Longworth
Cannon
Ohio
Cole
Annual Flight of Birds Begin Heyday of Nature Study
Providence reports the annual bird migration as a public spectacle and a source of scientific insight. The U S Department of Agriculture long since studied birds to separate benefactors from undesirables, while Brown University and other colleges expand ornithology courses to teach appreciation and understanding of birds and their role in nature.
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Commercial Tribune
Providence
Sam
Department of Agriculture
Brown University
Department of Extension
Brown
Department of
Herbert E. Walter
Chicago
Walter
London season delays due to weather and late American presence
London's social season opens amid unusually late Easter and foggy, damp weather. American visitors are sparse while hotel managers fear reduced spending. June and July promise crowds for the Olympics and continental pageants.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Paris
Engineers Attend Church Delegation in Columbus
Delegates and visitors to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers convention totaling 1800 marched to Broad Street Church of Christ and heard Rev. Walter Scott Priest. Later Judge Selden P. Spencer of St. Louis spoke at Memorial Hall.
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Columbus
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Broad Street Church of Christ
Walter Scott
Selden P. Spencer
St. Louis
Y. M. Co
Memorial Hall
Brakeman Henry Hardy Ends Life After Wife Refusal
Indiana news reports Henry Hardy a Big Four brakeman from Indianapolis killed himself in Lebanon after his wife refused to reunite. Despondent after separation, he had earlier been arrested for disturbing the peace following a reconciliation attempt and a prior suicide attempt was thwarted.
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Duchess of Manchester
Countess of Warwick
Ohio
Longworth
Countess de Chambrun
Mr. Cole
Mrs. Longworth
Iundiune
Lebanon
Ind
Henry Hardy
Big Four
Indianapolis
Hardy
Robs Lunch Stand at Central Avenue
James V. Price of 1017 Central avenue reports a bold theft yesterday morning. While closing his stand and counting money with the register open a stranger entered ordered coffee and a sandwich then grabbed about $20 from the register as Price prepared the order.
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James V. Price
Central Avenue
Price
Shooting at Farmers Union meeting in Meridian
News from Meridian Mississippi reports a shooting at Dripoff School house during a Farmers Union meeting. Alexander Miles was badly wounded by Ham Cunningham with two pistol shots penetrating the lungs and is not expected to recover. Dr M J Thompson was summoned to tend the injured man. The conflict arose during the dispute over officers' election. Both men are under 55.
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Commercial Tribune
Meridian
Miss
Farmers’ Union
Alexander Miles
Ham Cunningham
Cunningham
Miles
M. J. Thompson
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