THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
May 11, 1904

MISC. NEWS
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle
 

transcribed by Tina Hursh

GASOLINE WAS FATAL.

The two-year-old daughter of Oakley DE BECK of near Brookfield, Ind., drank gasoline a few days ago and died as a result.  Mr. DE BECK is the son of a well-known Cincinnati educator.

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VETERANS BANQUETED.
Two hundred of the veterans of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, one of the Buckeye State's crack regiments during the Civil war, met at a banquet Tuesday night at the Grand hotel.  George M. FINCH was re-elected president.
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STEREOTYPER'S ELECTION.
Ben MEYER and J.J. MALONEY are candidates for the presidency of the Stereotypers' union at their annual election next month.  Tuesday night Wm. THIERING was chosen delegate to the national convention at St. Louis and F.S. WOOLEY alternate.
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TRUSTEES CHOSEN.
The Associated Charities Board Tuesday night elected W.J. BREED, the Rev. George A. THAYER, Dr. Byron STANTON, Rev. H.M. CURTIS, George H. STEARNS, W.B. CARPENTER, W.B. THALHEIMER and William Christie HERRON trustees, to serve until 1907.  Judge Rufus B. SMITH was elected to serve an unexpired term on the Board of Trustees.
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GIRL ATE ARSENIC.
Mary CANTWELL, a domestic, living in the Jefferson building at Twelfth and Main streets, Sunday ate fifteen tablets containing iron, arsenic and strychnine, and is now at the city hospital in a serious condition.  She said she took them because her paralyzed father, whom she had supported for sixteen years, had expressed a desire to enter the city infirmary and become a ward of the city.





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