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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
10
Warm weather drew many women to Rist's millinery opening at 1142 Main Street. Hundreds toured the store for hours admiring hats trimmed with tips plumes and novelties plus large and medium hats. The dust department displayed garments as A G Rist received praise for styles and fabrics.
Mrs. Layton, general secretary of the National Association for the Protection of Colored Women, told a Mound Street Baptist Church audience that Cincinnati slums seem worse than New York City's. She aims to form a local protection group and to open a working girls' home, while staying with Dr. and Mrs. M. C. B. Mason on St James avenue.
Nellie Agnés McDougle was found dead September 13 in her room at 115 East Ninth Street with a chloroform bottle nearby. Coroner Cameron ordered Dr. Wetterstroem to analyze the stomach. the report found morphine poison in fatal quantity. Coroner will return an open verdict due to the surrounding circumstances.
The funeral of naturalist Alexander Starbuck was held yesterday at the Cuvier Club rooms with Rev. Dr. Thayer officiating. The remains were moved to Spring Grove Cemetery for interment in W. J. Lawler’s lot.
Archbishop Moeller instructs pastors to hold daily prayers for rain in Catholic churches until drought ends. All dioceses except gulf region partake. Rev G R Robbins of Lincoln Park Baptist invites ministers to join in Friday prayer for rain and seeks Sunday citywide observance.
The infant fertilizer industry in Cincinnati has grown with over forty-five cars loaded daily from one local firm. Two firms dominate production with eight years of growth, shipping 40000 tons this year, aided by Cincinnati’s central location to Kentucky Indiana West Virginia and Ohio. Raw materials arrive from Tennessee West Virginia and even Spain as finished products reach Missouri and beyond.
The Night Law School of the YMCA opens this evening from 8 to 8 30 in the new hall at Seventh and Walnut. Judge Otto Pfleger of the Common Pleas Court will address students and the entire faculty will attend. Enrollment begun Monday exceeds previous records due to graduates' success on bar exams.
A family’s sole breadwinner is a fragile structure, but Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati offers security. With 137,423 policies in force, $256,564,6600 in coverage and $62,242,452.60 in admitted assets, the company pledges to replace strength when the breadwinner falters.
Eugene Smith driver of the Gift hose wagon was thrown from his seat yesterday while en route to a fire at the Neill and Wegelin plumbing shop at 524 Elm Street. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment of his wounds.
William C. Dudley a retired broker and former telegraph operator died suddenly at his home 721 West Seventh street from heart disease. He was about 44, single, and active in the Telegraphers Union. he aided locked out workers and helped the O'Dell company boom before its decline. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
A gathering of Catholic bishops at Archbishop Moeller's West Eighth residence discussed church affairs in the Cincinnati province. Topics included dividing the Cleveland diocese into Cleveland and Toledo sees and selecting a successor to the late Bishop Horstm an. The three leading candidates were endorsed but not named publicly. The visitors, hosted by Archbishop Moeller, will depart for their respective dioceses today.
Charles E. West, a Cincinnati area farmer and former Mitchell Furniture Co. foreman, died Monday in Portland Oregon after an operation at age 48. He was the son of S C West of H F West & Bro., lived on Harvey Avenue Avondale, left Cincinnati five years ago for his wife’s family home, and previously rode horses here where a prior spill affected his kidneys. He leaves a widow, four children, and a sister Mrs C A Culbertson of Avondale.
Harry Talbot, 43, a Fourth Street cafe cook, was stabbed in the neck by an unknown assailant on East Sixth Street. He was taken to City Hospital. Police expect to arrest a local fighter known in town.
Patrick Conroy a 26 year old clerk from Pittsburg walked into City Hospital yesterday with a fractured skull. He says the injury occurred in a fight last Sunday night on the river front and that he was struck by an unknown colored man.
The St Bernard facilities of The Jarecki Chemical Company and the American Agricultural Chemical Company, led by Gustav Jarecki Jr and Frank Groves, produce calcium cyanamid and sulphuric acid from Spain, Germany and Tennessee inputs. Sugar NL prompt escalation in winter-wheat orders shows 60 to 70 carloads daily.
The North Cincinnati Turn Verein inaugurates a heated campaign with Independent and Regular or Red tickets announcing shared candidates except for directors. Elections set for October 1 between 5 and 9 pm, with key contenders including Lueders Hoefle Varrelmann Groneweg Meyer Schob Brokate Karlen Schraeder Gaukel Hauck and others. Karlen leads Independents who promise a strong challenge to Regulars, while business and women’s classes plan attendance at Indianapolis Turners meeting October 11.
City Council will not enter an agreement with Granitord Pavement Company to supply materials or pay royalties on patent rights. Architect Kessler to draft University of Chicago grounds parking plans. Mayor Markbreit declines to support a local American Volunteers branch without standard financial inspection and governance. Fireman Sullivan’s sobriety lapse leads to three months of loss of days off. Ohio Valley Improvement Association to meet October 1 with Business Men's Club to select delegates for Louisville convention October 22 to 24 on Ohio River improvements. Mayor Markbreit will address the meeting.
Kimball's Piano House at 632-634 Race Street in Cincinnati promotes a remodeling sale with many bargain pianos and terms. Offers include a 4 foot 9 inch upright in mahogany for 125 and other models from 100 to 237 with free music lessons for first ten buyers. Open evenings to 9.
Central W C T U met in Cable Hall and elected officers for 1908 09. President Mrs John Robertson seeks re election. Vice President Mrs J H Edwards. Recording Secretary Mrs Ida Widing. Corresponding Secretary Mrs Mary Reeves. Treasurer Mrs Emma Fritz. Executive Board includes Miss Alma Talmadge and others. Delegates to Akron convention named Mrs Robertson and Miss Mary Rennick with alternates Mrs Fritz and Mrs Widing. Home coming planned for October.
A mass rally at Central Turner Hall protested the Russian government’s alleged detention of revolutionary leader Jan Janoff Pouren. Several hundred attendees heard Nicholas Klein in English, Julius Zorn in German, and Henry Pevsner in Yiddish. Petitions with thousands of signatures were presented and sent to President Roosevelt.
The annual reunion of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry is being held today in Memorial Hall with Mayor Markbreit among the guests. The general committee includes John A. Pitts Lucien Wulsin Captain R P Rifenberg M M Richardson L C Brampk P H Caulfield and Colonel James I Quinton. Lucien Wulsin M M Richardson and William H Hendy are on the special lunch committee. badges honor Colonel John Kennett.
The notice describes electric lighted trains from Chicago Wells Street Station leaving at 6:35 p.m. daily to the Twin Cities with connections to all Northwest lines, buffet and dining cars, smoking and library cars, and breakfast in the dining car. It lists affiliations with the Badger State Express and Fast Mail and provides N. M. Breeze at 201 Main Street, Buffalo as general agent.
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