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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1887
Page
2
The Evening News is issued by the Union Labor Campaign Committee of Hamilton County. Office details list 852 Main St and 353 Main Street for news operations.
Notice announces Hamilton County Campaign Committee pushes a party paper to boost Union Labor gains. Members urged to contribute and rally workingmen, with contact via telephone 2168 for urgent matters.
The Tax Evening News promotes advertising to merchants and notes forty thousand workingmen as readers. Correspondents must sign submissions. anonymous items won’t be published. The piece suggests anarchists should secede from the Knights and warns headlines would aid labor organizations.
Cold weather prompts planning for the big meeting the Saturday night before the election and urges strict attention to registering every Union Labor voter.
The Union Labor ticket is presented as the only path to a good county name urging Republican defectors tired of elite tactics to vote Union Labor. It promises clearly defined principles and highlights the platform's sole significant plank on foreign pauper labor imported on contract. Read the platform to resolve doubt.
The writer urges citizens to exercise best judgment at the polls to stop the Cox Zumstein gang from governing the city. He blames ring rule and convention boodlers for rising taxation and says thousands of Democrats and Republicans will vote the Union Labor ticket.
The Anarchists, barred from using the Knights of Labor under Joe Buchanan’s leadership, are planning a secession. The speaker condemns Buchanan as worthless and urges publication of full particulars from papers commenting on the Knights of Labor’s breakup.
The piece argues that widespread layoffs among telegraph operators and messenger boys result from line consolidation. It questions the motive of Mr. Gould aiming to dominate the national telegraph business, contrasting collective interests with one individual's wealth and power.
The writer accuses a powerful man of seeking power by undermining legislatures courts and laws while aiding anarchists to win Republican votes. He alleges manipulative tactics including courting Parsons and attacking clergy and warns against printing red flags on bogus Union Labor tickets.
A political plea urges Democrats to join the Union Labor party to defeat the Republican machine. It warns that prolonged Republican control entrenches corruption and patronage, and calls loyal Democrats to act in the fall elections.
The piece argues Republicans fear Copeland Doran and Hart facing defeat. Doran, favored by the Commercial, would suffer politically if his ambitions had not overreached, leading to a bleak electoral future and damaging scrutiny in the campaign.
The article denounces a newspaper for dragging Emma Goettle into notoriety over her church attendance and attacks on Mr. Lockwood and his ministry. It accuses the press of cruelty, defaming a woman seeking to lead a decent life and a clergyman fighting corruption. It condemns the newspaper as brutal and politically vicious.
A Cincinnati political column condemns unregistered businessmen and warns Friday registration affects the November 8 vote. It urges supporters Hart Copeland Doran and Davidson to campaign publicly and asserts a Republican sweep will sustain current governance.
The Tax Times-Star critiques sensational reporting on Union Labor meetings and mocks Republican events. It pledges to focus on counting Union Labor majorities on election day, urging restraint from imaginative commentary.
Rt O Wilkins entered the New Home Sewing Machine Co office on Race Street yesterday in a drunken quarrel. Manager Boutelle attempted to restrain him when Wilkins turned violent, causing a scene in the showroom and prompting intervention by bystanders.
The platform outlines six labor issues including ending the contract system on public works, establishing arbitration between employers and workers, banning child labor under fifteen, prohibiting hiring convict labor, restricting importation of foreign contracted labor, and organizing post office finances and savings facilities to protect workers’ interests. The speaker argues for court appointed arbitrators, enforcement, and state education to ensure compliance.
A fragmented OCR item shows workers or activists from EXGLINN seeking to advance a spa related project. The readable text hints at collective action and organizational backing but lacks clear dates or locations.
The notice explains registration deadlines on October 2 and 29, required to obtain citizenship papers before the November election. It outlines who is entitled to papers, with under eighteen needing one paper after five years residence and older immigrants needing two papers after specified residence periods, plus steps to procure by visiting the Probate Court Clerk or the United States Court with a witness.
The Unionist, a workingmen and Trades Unions organ in Cincinnati, is shown to shift allegiance between candidates for money. The article accuses its editor of selling endorsements to both parties, noting connections to Foraker and Butterworth while questioning state labor statistics authority and local labor leadership.
John Hanley twelve living in Westwood fell from a streetcar on the New Baltimore pike trial run from Spring Grove avenue to Fairmount his right leg was nearly severed and Dr Muscroft amputated the limb the driver Peter Carley was arrested and exonerated by the crowded car passengers the author urges guards on streetcar wheels as these accidents grow more common.
In the Police Court yesterday Mrs. Dr. Temmen of 71 Dudley Street faced a charge by the Medical Association for practicing medicine without a diploma. The prosecution dropped the case as she had been practicing for thirty years and a jury was not impaneled. The defendant had a wide reputation with letters in circulation and her prior credentials referenced.
The six inch telescope, claimed to be the largest in the world, designed and built by Warner Swasey, is finished and to be shipped to its destination immediately.
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