President to View Exposition Big Show Tomorrow
Spectacular exposition expected as the president views the big show tomorrow. Thousands of youngsters from every school visit as guests of management for the holiday event.
20 Sep 1910
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1910
Page
1
Spectacular exposition expected as the president views the big show tomorrow. Thousands of youngsters from every school visit as guests of management for the holiday event.
Indianapolis Ind Sept 19 Three balloons and crews entered the international balloon race starting Oct 17 at St Louis with reports of sightings from Charleston W Va to Warrenton Va and several landings across Ohio and Pennsylvania. American contestants include New York pilots and st Louis crews. details of landings and in flight experiences are provided.
Fidelity Trust files against Frank C Nunemacher of Nunemacher Printing Co and J L Smyser and Louisville Paper Co. John W Bart named receiver by Judge Samuel Kirby. Suit seeks 45000 dollars against the printing firm for unpaid bond interest and notes that Nunemacher, a Board of Trade president and churchman, has been missing for days.
Frank C. Nunemacher, president of the Louisville Board of Trade, vanished days ago from his Kentucky home. Sightings in Aurora indicated he appeared without awareness, and he was later seen walking toward Cincinnati. Detectives search the area as police monitor routes near Louisville and Aurora.
A farmer near Caldwell Colorado fired twice at a balloon labeled America Tr. as it drifted overhead. The craft and its two occupants were out of range and unharmed, and the farmer did not know two men rode in the basket.
Interstate Commerce Commission examines stock manipulation by railroads at a rate hearing in Chicago. Controller Blauvelt testifies that from 1891 to 1910 stock and debt rose sharply while par stock sales to stockholders masked value, with much purchased via other interests and limited open market sales.
Henry W. McMasters and Francis H. Skelding as receivers in U S district court seek an accounting from George J. Gould Joseph Ramsey Jr Myron T Herrick and James Hazen Hyde plus others regarding about 6.6 million in bonds and 6.7 million received from the Pittsburg Toledo syndicate and unpaid to the Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Railway with the exact sums to be determined by accounting.
A severe storm struck Lexington and damaged the Henry Clay statue in the cemetery, shattering an arm and leg. The monument unveiled to replace a 1908 lightning strike had costs partly funded by a 12 000 dollar appropriation. The storm caused 50 000 dollars in total damages, knocked out every fire alarm box, disrupted telegraph and telephone lines, and dropped five inches of rain with reports of at least one death in Central Kentucky. Oscar Fora and his wife were injured when lightning struck their Hillsboro home.
Atlantic City hosts the G A R encampment as registration and committee meetings proceed. Advocates seek a permanent campsite near the country’s center to ease rail rates and boost attendance. rail fare inequality draws grumbling. Edward Watson predicts a one cent per mile rail rate for the next encampment, else no event. Veterans discuss biennial or quadrennial formats while some groups push for revenue cutter service survivors to join. The arrival is marked by a massive reception on the steel pier with thousands attending.
In Frankfort on September 19 the attorney general asked the court of appeals for a rehearing on the constitutional validity of the special circuit judge act passed by the last legislature. He also submitted the case transcript on the state board of equalization's authority to arbitrarily raise county property taxable values.
Wil Wem Wyke, 17, a mold runner in a pottery, died after overeating peaches and buttermilk at home in East Liverpool Ohio. He had ignored his mother’s warning to avoid indulgence and consumed a large amount of buttermilk at supper, the cramps leading to death.
West Virginia officials and Republican nominees gathered in White Sulphur Springs to endorse President Taft and pledge unity within the party. The meeting, called by Governor Glasscock, aimed to launch the fall campaign with party discipline and support for the Taft administration.
Five workers at a Virginia manufacturing plant were struck by a ripsaw when a lever was pulled the wrong way by a Black worker. One man was decapitated, three others were probably fatally mangled, and a fifth was badly cut.
RATON N M Sept 19 C J Roberts received news from President Taft of his appointment as associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico He is a member of the constitutional committee of New Mexico
In Georgetown Kentucky Ward Headley of Princeton John M Stevenson of Winchester and Prather Beeler of Cynthiana addressed a small audience. They urged rapid support for the Burley pool but reports say no signatures were secured and voters remained divided. The board meets next week to plan a vote.
Nashville dispatch reports General Manager Ewing of the Tobacco Planters Protective Association states the pool will reach 35000 hogsheads, up 10000 from last year, in a September statement.
Louisville Sept. 19 Rev Arthur Brooks pastor of the Crestwood Methodist Church was deemed unfit to lead his flock after he played baseball and engaged in other sports to his congregation's distaste. He resigned last night amid growing agitation sparked by his Saturday athletic activities with Crestwood.
Chicago, Sept 19. Senator Julius C Burrows of Michigan heads a senate investigation panel into the Lorimer Illinois election bribery charges. The initial session is set for tomorrow with a mostly lawyer membership and access to a marshal and assistant sergeant at arms. Elbridge Haney of Chicago represents Lorimer.
Ed J. Hanley chairman of the state central committee and James M. Cox visited Hamilton for a conference with local Democratic leaders. Hanley delivered a hard critique urging clean methods and reform to win in the fall, hinting past actions would not withstand scrutiny.
Louisville police proceed with the case against Dr. Douglas Snyder and his Pittsburg wife, held in connection with the Kentucky state fair incubator baby deaths. Magistrate Dacher delayed proceedings to September 24 with the couple free on bond.
At Albany Taft and Theodore Roosevelt met as Roosevelt’s aides express worry over New York state tensions. Taft reaffirms support for direct primaries and says he would run if nominated, while Roosevelt avoids pledges and hints at actions after the elections. The discussion yields no pact on the 1912 presidency.
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