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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1913
Page
1
Fierce rioting in Dublin linked to the tramway strike leaves two dead and many injured as police clash with crowds. Lord Mayor vows a public inquiry into police conduct and arrests top strike leaders, including James Larkin, amid widespread disturbances and mass arrests.
M. J. McCarty, who wore a sign declaring his blindness, has begun a 100 day sentence on the municipal farm after he stared at a young woman's ankle showing through a slit skirt. J W West, a clerk, gave him a dime and alerted police to the beggar's distraction.
Miss Jane Jamison died at Bryn Mawr Hospital after being found unconscious with her brother George Jamison, a retired banker, seriously ill at their Radnor home. Doctors suspected internal poison though hospital officials avoided comment. The Jamisons, linked to prominent families, were well known residents with substantial fortunes.
Washington reports a planned upheaval in United States marshalships and district attorneyships after the tariff bill clears Senate and currency issues ease. The Attorney General McReynolds is said to be in a mood to reshuffle offices, inspired by DA John L. McNab of California who reportedly sent a strong signal and by a broader push for aligned appointees.
The United States Marine Band received leave from September 29 to November 16 to tour New England States New York Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan West Virginia and Maryland. The trip is the fourth in the band’s history and was approved after requests from U S Senators for the listed states.
Mrs. Charlotte C. Rhodus heads the Woman's party of Cook County Tr and judges the first twenty volunteers to form the Beauty Squad. They will patrol city streets to recruit adherents from rival political groups using polite beauty as their weapon and ban cigars, cigarettes, or other bribes.
Vice President Marshall urged home influence over national policy to curb the tango turkey trot and slit skirt fashions at a Gre Falls camp meeting of the Methodist Church South. He lamented diminishing religious influence and urged Americans to awaken, with Senator Swanson of Virginia among the speakers.
The final barrier at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal was blown with dynamite at 9.8 this morning, revealing a rising tide that filled a 400 foot wide, 5,000 foot long channel. Dredges will finish removing debris tonight as the Pacific channel nears completion and Atlantic work begins September 2.
Washington Aug 31 Assurances from Mexico City that the September 16 military show on Mexican Independence Day will be armed to awe the constitutionalists were issued after sensational yellow journalism claimed a shift of division HQs to the coast. Ministers Gamboa and Urrutia denied hostile intent as patriotism soars across states with offers of service to Huerta. The State Department faces a flood of questions from Americans in Mexico about the exodus call, and a supplementary statement may follow.
A Detroit Board of Health report on women in the restricted district finds 31 percent feeble-minded, 25 percent simple-minded, with a small percentage clearly imbeciles. Dr. Guy Le Kiefer notes classifications at odds with age standards and discusses social factors driving women toward street life and restricted districts.
A late night street fight on Thirty-ninth street and Emerald avenue left John Murphy unconscious and wounded in the Emergency Hospital. He awakened on an operating table with Dr. William Borrell ready to operate before Murphy knocked the doctor with a punch and escaped, leaving his shirt neckband for identification.
Four people were injured when a Big Four freight train struck an auto in White Sulphur. The vehicle skidded onto the tracks and was crushed. Charles Conrad, his wife, George Minor, and his wife, all from Marton, were hurt. Conrad is very seriously injured and all were treated at a Marion hospital.
Fire in Archbold Ohio devastated the east business district with fifteen stores destroyed. The sole fire engine broke down forcing a bucket brigade as Toledo and nearby towns aided. Loss estimated in the hundreds of thousands with origin undetermined. Archbold, a 1500 population town forty miles west of Toledo.
A man named Le Judee Gilbert arrived in Shelbyville Ky to defend his late father Representative G G Gilbert’s name. He plans to examine letters in the McDowell correspondence to test their genuineness. Judge C R McDowell of Danville was expected but未 entered appearance. National Association of Manufacturers figures Kirby Parry to testify before Senate committee, probing party manipulation aims.
Christian Smeltzley aged 64 was killed on Otto Ladrech's Rogersville farm when a dehorned bull charged him after he led it to water. The fight lasted about thirty minutes before the bull trampled and crushed him. A six year old boy witnessed the tragedy as the bull then fled to the road and terrorized the area until capture.
In Sherbrooke Quebec Thaw case lawyers confront new habeas corpus writs as Judge Hutchinson's court sets a likely stay. Thaw rejects the idea of being released and cites October as the earliest exit while Ottawa and Quebec officials weigh intervention and potential dismissal.
Berlin Aug 81 ex King Manuel of Portugal will wed Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern next Thursday in Bamringen. Eighty royal princes and princesses signaled to attend. The Prince of Wales to represent King George, and gifts include a grand silver table set from George and Mary of England and a gold wine flagon from Queen Alexandra.
James McFall a 60 year old stonecutter shot himself at the Mt Morish Cemetery entrance in Philadelphia after writing his name and address on a scrap of paper. A crowd of mourners witnessed the tragedy and doctors were summoned.
Police plan arrests of motorcyclists who toot horns at girls on passing streetcars and sidewalks. Officials say such horn tooting is an invitation to ride and constitutes joy riding that they aim to stop.
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