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Last week twenty-one machinists
were laid off at the plant of the Ham
ilton Machine Tool Co. The reason
given for laying these men off is that
work is slack. Yet one manufacturer
upon whom a demand was made for
establishing an eight-hour gave as
his reasons for not granting such re
quest is that he can't get enough
machinists for running three shifts
and that it was necessary that his
plant run 24 hours a day in order to
fill his contracts.
The layii.g off of so many men, who
are now walking the streets of Hamil
ton, does r&t bear out the statement
of this manufacturer and meets only
with the contention of the machinists
that the reason for the refusal to
grant the eight-hour day is to keep up
the long hour day thereby causing a
surplus of labor which would afford
the opportunity for hammering down
wages. And this seems to be the
main reason.
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Send Men To Farms First, Urges Mifchel,
Raising Jobless Soldier Spectre.
By JOHN MITCHELL
Chairman, New York State Industrial
Commission.
Here in America we do not need re
construction or rehabilitation. We
need, rather, to take up the work of
readjustment oil a broad and intelli
gent footing.
In America we have no part of the
problem that faces devastated, war
torn and war weary Europe. We have,
nevertheless, problems of a character
that will require the sober judgement
of the best minds in the land.
The first step in the solution of the
many and pressing problems of read
justment is the profitable and regular
employment of the men who went to
Prance and Belgium, to Italy and to
Russia to battle for liberty and who
are now nearing pur shores.
Out of the war has come a great
humanitarian impulse which must be
translated into constructive action, but
we must see that no considerable num
ber of our people, now that the war
Is over, and the victory won, will be
any worse off than before they went
into it.
^Unemployment Breeds Qiscontent and Leads Toward Rev
olution, He Says Offering Practical Plan For
Demobilization And Readjustment.
We want no thousands walking
around the streets looking for wdrk.
They will regard it as a poor return
for the sacrifices they have made.
In Europe revolution is in the air.
In America it is readjustment along
lines that will look revolutionary
many of the duller thinking and more
conservative of our people.
I do not mean to suggest revolu
tlon here, because I feel certain that
in our country we will not have any
conditions such as those in Europe
We shall have no disorder, but the
spirit of revolution is infectious. The
best guaiantee of constructive, order
ly development is a regular and pro
fitable employment of the people.
We must guard against widespread
unemployment. Right here in New
York, where a great majority of the
More Machinists
Laid Off Bearing Out The
Workers In Their Demand
For A Shorter Work Day.
More apparent does it become each
day that the machinists in their con
tention for a flat and not a basic eight
hour day are right. They contend
that as soon as war contracts are
cancelled that many machinists will be
thrown ont of employment. And they
seem to be right in their contention
So far about 400 machinists have been
laid off right here in Hamilton The
business itgent of the local machinists
union ha** received a communication
from the grand lodge informing him
that machinists are being laid off
every where throughout the country.
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Children Starving
In New York City Because
Of High Cost of Staple Foods.
New York.—A representative of the
Associated Press is responsible for the
startling revelations which follow, dis
tressing and almost unbelievable as
they appear at this season of the year
when all people are anticipating pleas
urable enjoyment during the holiday
season:
Aroused by reports that, with
Christmas approaching, East Side
children are "fainting in school rooms
and dying at home," because their par
ents cannot pay the prevailing high
prices for milk and staple foods, rep
resentative citizens organized a$com
mittee "to feed them first and investi
gate afterward." I
A plea that something be done for
her pupils, who were "'slowly starv
ing to death," was made recently by
a teacher to a banker, who now heads
the relief organization. He visited
schools, hospitals and tenements, and
issued a statement dealing with con
ditions on the East Side.
"One settlement," he said, "has the
names of 150 babies, who recovering
from influenza, now face death from
pneumonia because their parents can
not buy milk needed to restore them
to'health. Every hospital In the dis-
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returning soldiers will be landed, we
are vitally concerned that there shall
be no large unemployment.
When 1 say large unemployment, I
always remember that we, in normal
times in New York, have more men
unemployed than ever existed in Lon
don.
If the city of London had as many
unemployed men in 1914 and 1915 as
we had in New York, there would have
been revolution in England.
Next year we must ship to the na
tions of Europe move food than we
did last year. Mr. Herbert Hoover
has made the statement that we ship
ped this year eleven million tons of
food to our soldiers -and to our allies
in Europe This year, he estimates,
we must ship twenty millions of tons
of food if the people of those nations
are to escape starvation.
That is the situation: We must ship
nine million tons more food than we
did last year. If we are going to do
this, every boy who went into the
army and navy, recruited from the
farm, must be released from the ser
vice as soor as military conditions will
permit and return to the farm in
order that he may resume his accus
tomed employment in this fundamen
tal industry, the production of food.
It is obvious that our war industries
should be adjusted on this basis.
As for military demobilization, the
farm boy should be released first.
Next we should release the men from
the army and navy who were in the
establishments for the preparation of
foods—the factories that made farm
products into finished foods.
Then w* should release all the men
whose employers promised them posi
tions when they went away so that
they could have their jobs again.
In reletting men from every branch
of the army and navy we should take
into consideration the possible lack of
^profitable employment for the men
released from service.
trict" he continued, "knows hundreds
more underfed children, many of whom
are phy ically unable to continue their
studies."
Of his visit to one school, he said:
"In one room there were 22 chil
dren. A ragman would not have paid
five cent-} for all the clothing they
wore. Mrmy had no undergarments,
and those who did could hardly call
them by that name. Many were with
out shoes, and others had heelless and
soleless ones.
"We learned most of them came
there without any breakfast. Some
kind people were giving the teacher
a little money every week, and with
that she purchased some milk and
cereals, preparing gruel over a small
stove in the room. She said with the
high cost of milk now she was not
able to buy much and that several of
the children had fainted right there in
the class room. Others were too weak
to leave home and died there. Mal
nutrition was the cause—starvation."
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44 HOUR WEEK
Demanded By Workers
Throughout England.
London.—Labor unions throughout
the United Kingdom are agitating for
a 44-hour week. This would mean
eight hours a day on five days of the
week and four hours on Saturday.
The National Transport Workers'
federatior has presented to all the mu
nicipal ar.d privately-owned tramways
a demand for a working week of 44
hours at the present weekly wages.
Representatives of the federation of
engineering and shipbuilding trades
and representatives of the employers
recently held a meeting at which it
was decided that a 44-hour week with
out any reduction in existing wages
constituted a reasonable attempt to
readjust working conditions. An agree
ment was entered into between the
employers and the men providing that
the unions should make all effort to
insure that in the unsettled state
through which the country has to pass,
the greatest possible output should be
maintained.
The compromise of a 44-hour week
has been assed upon by the engineer
ing and shipbuilding union and a count
of the ballot shows it was accepted
by 286,545 £0 146,526.
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POLITICAL HARVEST TIME.
(Taxpayers' Magazine.)
When President Wilson, la response
to an appeal by Secretary McAdgo, is
sued his call for relief to public utili
ties in the form of Increased rates,
be emphasized the importance of
"prompt" relief and he urged that it
be granted by the tocal communities.
Hundreds, if not not thousands, 0*
rates have been increased through
out the countsy sinfce then. Others
are steadily being increased. So that
communities, local officials, seem to
be heeding the call and the conditions
back of it seem to be facing the
facts, realizing that these companies
must cease to sell below cost because
they are vital to the nation at war
and that this Is no time to play poli
ties with the utilities. Yet we find
some city officials refusing to regard
the situation as anything other thm
their political harvest tlzaa.
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Peace Gratitude
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is peace worth to you?
That, in the mind of D. C. Wills,
chairman of the Central Liberty Loan
Committee for the Fourth Federal Re
serve District, is the question which
Uncle Sam will be asking the nation
next April when he announces the
terms of the Fifth Liberty Loan. In a
recent interview in Cleveland Wills
expressed the thought that the total
subscriptions to the Fifth Loan would
be one measure of the sincerity of the
thousands and thousands of persons
who could be heard before the sign
ing of the armistice protesting loudly
their willingness to give everything
they had for a speedy and victorious
peace.
"And I believe that there was sin
cerity behind these protestations,"
Wills continued. "My belief in my
neighbor and my fellow-countrymen is
so strong that I feel certain the Fifth
Loan will be subscribed, whatever its
amount.
"Those of us who stayed at home
are of the same caliber as those boys
who went overseas and kept the Hun
on the run till armistice \day. The
tenacity, the aggressiveness, the
squareness, the fidelity to duty which
made the American soldier the talk of
the world are all characteristics, as
well, of the home folk. They are In
gredients of Americanism and will
play their part in the meeting of ob
ligations of the war and the after-the
war period just as they did on the
battlefields.
"The terms of the Fifth Loan have
not yet been decided. The amount is
not yet known. But I think I know
the answer of America when the gov
ernment says to us next spring: 'Here
is your peace here is your victory.
What is it worth to you?'"
A Keen Eye, Mr. Bly
Says the far-seeing Ida bod Bly:
"Two dolars a week I'll put by
And then in the Spring
With the birdies I'll sing:
'Cheap, cheap,' to the bond that
buy."
Will Fifth Loan Be
Easier To Put Over
Will the Fifth Liberty Loan,
which is to be floated in April, be
harder to raise than its predeces
sors?
Students of finance hold varying
views on this question, but the op
timists cite the rather convincing
argument that France made her
greatest record at bond buying in
after-the-war financing. Germany
at the end of the Franco-Prussian
war levied an indemnity of $1,000,
000,000 on France May 10, 1871.
The French people were allowed
until March 2, 1874, to pay it. But
by the summer of 1873 the last cent
had been paid Germany, the billion
and interest having been raised by
the French in two smashing bond
selling drives.
And France was a vanquished
nation then.
The United States, having had
only a year of war and none of that
on its own soil, emerges victor
from this war with Germany, cite
those who believe the Fifth Loan
should be easily subscribed, and
certainly cannot do less than
France.
Liberty Bonds Make Us
Nation of Bondholders
Before the end of this year the
United States Treasury will probably
be able to report twenty-five million
debt holders where formerly there
were few owners of Government
bonds outside the national banks.
Including war savings, as do the
English figures, Uncle Sam's invest
ment family may run up to forty mil
lion people.
Do not these millions of new in
vestors consider themselves rich from
savings and loans to the Government?
To those who have any doubt of the
nation's ability to float a Fifth Liberty
Loan next April these figures should
prove heartening.
Estimates of bondholders in this
country before the First Liberty
place the number at 400.000.
8RILUNT LIGHIiSS
OF AMERICAN HQ:.i£S
Til! ii5ii Family Is Using a
fcMitim of 389 Candles.
We are living in an age of light, lit*
•rally and figuratively. Statistics
•how that the avera** Anuaican fam­
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ily toaay uses eignteen times more
light than it used a century ago. Up
to 1856 the average home burned
sperm oil and candles, using 26 candle
hours a night, or 9,000 a year, at a
cost of $22.
Then petroleum came and we had
our kerosene oil lamps. This gave us
50 per cent more light at the same
cost. Then between '65 and '75 kero
sene and gas held sway as the illumi
nants. From 20,000 to 38,000 candle
hours were consumed yearly in the av
erage home of one or the other at a
ost of from $23 to $34 a year per
family.
Then we come on down till we reach
the period from 1885 to 1906, with
electricity for lighting pushing ahead
and the advent of the Welsbach gas
mantle, one of the great inventions ol
the age, sent the consumption up to
200,000 candle power hours of light a
year in the average household, but
with the rise in consumption the cost
fell to about $20 a year. From that
period to 1915 the consumption fell
to about 125,000 candle power hours
to a home, as the result of the saving
through high efficiency lamps the cost
fell with *t to $15.
SOME UNIMPORTANT THINGS.
The urgency of the need of relief
being given public service corpora
tions, whose rates were fixed from a
basis of pre-war costs' of labor and
materials, was voiced by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States in
a session at Chicago.
Looking to the preservation of light,
heat and power plants, it adopted the
resolution which follows:
"The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States recommends to
state and local authorities that they
recognize the unusual and onerous
conditions with which public utilities
are contending, and that in the in
terest of the nation, of business and
the public they give prompt and
sympathetic hearing to the petitions
of such utilities for assistance and
relief."
PUBLIC UTILITY COM'RS
ON FIXED SERVICE RATES
The Public Wants to Be Fair but Not
to Be Imposed Upon.
Columbus, Dec. 14.—Mr. Charles C.
Marshall, speaking for the commis
sion, of which he is chairman, says:
"The public utility companies
are facing a difficult proposition. In
many cases their rates for service
are fixed for a period of years, and
based upon prices of labor and ma
terials before the war. Labor has
gone up, and materials advanced, in
some cases more than a hundred per
cent. The utility can not pass the
increased cost on to the customer
as can the merchant or the manufac
turer, and many of them are operat
ing at a loss or reducing the effi
ciency of their service.
"It is not to the best interest of
either the public or the utility that
rates be fixed which will bankrupt
the
company
RAISE PRICE OF GAS,
SAYS U. S. MINE BUREAU
Increased Cost Would Greatly Lessen
the Present Wasteful Use of
Natural Gas.
The United States Bureau of Mines,
in Technical Paper No. 38, says:
"A great many cities have tried to
lower the gas rates when, as a mat
ter of fact, they should have in
creased them to insure the highest
efficiency and prolong the service for
years. Whatever may be the opinion
of the general public in the matter,
it Is a fact that the rates charged by
public utility corporations for natural
gas are, in most cases, too low rather
than too high and that the most ef
ficient regulation can be successfully
accomplished only by raising rates to
such a point that consumers will not
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ALLIES fiRE FED
BY SELF DENIAL
Generous Doing Without
America Supplied Food
to Europe.
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Exports from this country since It
entered the war have kept starvation
from Allied Europe and have main
tained the health and strength of those
who have been bearing the brunt of
our battles, so that they could hold
out to victory. Now that hostilities
have ceased we must assume the add
ed burden of keeping starvation from
increasing Its toll upon the millions
who have been liberated from the
Prussian yoke. Famine would undo
the work which has been accomplished
In freeing the world for democracy. No
stable government can be established
and maintained by a nation harassed
by hunger. A starving people turns
to rioting and anarchy. Food has
given strength and courage to the na
tions fighting for democracy it must
now give the nations strength and
tranquillity to re-establish themselves
in freedom and democracy.
Without our help it would have been
absolutely impossible for the Allies to
maintain a living ration. Since our
*ntry Into the war we have been con
tributing largely to the support of one
hundred and twenty million people
whose normal food supplies have been
cut off, whose production has fallen
almost to the vanishing point, whose
fields have been devastated by Ger
many. The food exported from the
United States in the past year has
been sufficient to supply the ccmpiete
ration of twenty-two million people.
It is hard to grasp the magnitude
and significance of the assistance
which has been lent the Allies by the
patriotic, voluntary service of the
American people. The food we sent
abco&dllaal sear would hare b*eo aa£-
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or compel it to furnish
a poor service.
"We are doing the best we can to
deal with this difficult question In
these troublesome times, and we be
lieve that if the public knew all the
facts, there would be less criticism.
I take it the public wants to be fair
but do not want to be imposed upon."
Molders Conference Board
NOTICE
Buy only Bread 1, 1
Bearing This L®dL)*il
1 be following Bakers u«e the Union L,abe
Occident Baking Co. John Armbrust
John Bader
Louis Korb
Jacob Volz
Frank Geier
Frank Mihillo
Elite Baking Co.
Weik Bros.
Fred Sauerbeck
George Jansen
Harry Bacon
Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.
New System Bakery.
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Lyric Theatre
SUNDAY
Wm. Duncan & Edith Johnson
Fight For Millions
WEDNESDAY
Jack Mulhall and Janetta
Hanson
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COMING
Eddie Polo in the
"LURE OF THE CIRCUS"
ncient to reed one-nxm or our popula
tion. And this was done In spite of
the fact that we entered the year with
short crops. Our surplus was practi
cally nothing. An overwhelming pro
portion of the food that left this coun
try last year was saved out of the nor
mal home consumption of our own
people.
In spite of difficulties met In Inter
nal transportation and shortage of
ocean tonnage our food exports last
year amounted to a figure that a few
years ago would have been unbelieva
ble. Even the most optimistic element
of our population faced with anxious
consternation the prospect which
opened before us with the beginning
of the 1917 harvest year.
The American people have not been
compelled to save. They have been
appealed to on the basis of humanity
and of patriotism. They have re
sponded voluntarily.
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WORKERS MAKE CLAIMS.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Employes of the
Gem Metal Products corporation have
received a wage increase of $5, closed
shop conditions and a forty eight-hour
week by a decision of the War Labor
Board.
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zation knows no law except that of
human progress
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Buy Thrift Stamps and help.
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R0STFR OF ORGANIZATIONS
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HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS
MIDDLETOWN LABOR UNIONS
Trades Council 1st and 3rd Thurs., T. C. Hall .....Ed Sullivan, Box 401.
Barbers Union No. 70 Last Mon., I. O. O. F. Hall L. Hare, E. Third St.
Bartenders Union No. 732 4th Sun., T. C. Hall Charles H. Lukey, 308 E. Fourth St.
Bricklayers Union Weber's Hall, Third and Wall St Wm. Bonnell, Vanderveer St.
Carpenters Union No. 1477 2nd and 4th Wed., Jr. O.U.A.M. hall....Earl Otterman, 210 Harrison Ave.
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers 1st and 3rd ,Sat., Jr. O.U.A.M. hall....Clarence Steel, Sebald Bldg.
Metal Polishers Union No. 48 2nd and 4th Thurs., T. .James English, Wikoif and Woodiawn
Musicians Union 1st Sunday, a. m., T. David Kendle, 1010 12th St.
Plasterers Local No. 409 2nd and 4th Wed., Castell Bldg T. A. Scully, P. O. Box 228.
Plumbers Union No. 510 2nd and 4th Tues., T. C. Hall Ed. J. Sullivan, 120 N. Broad St.
Printing Pressmen No. 235 2nd Wed., E. 3rd St., over Johnston's....Geo. X. Mayer, 326 Market St., Ham.
Paint. Dec. Paper Hangers No. 643....1st and 3rd Fri., T. S. F. Fraysur, 116 S. Main St.
Stage Employees Union
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Tobacco Workers Union 1st and 3rd Sat., T. C. Hall Thos. Ryan, 212 Clark St.
Typographical Union No. 487 1st Fri., T. C. Hall C. E. Colwell
DISTRICT ORGANIZATIONS
BUSINESS AGENTS
Molders Tim Rowan, 939 Central Ave. Bell Phone 403-X.
Machinists Ted Smith, 811 S. 9th St. Bell Phone 1910-Y.
Carpenters Swain Corson, 439 Brosey Ave. Bell Phone 756-L.
Theatrical Stage Employes Henry Janser, Overpeck, Ohio.
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Time and Place of Meeting. Corresponding Secretary.
Trades Council Alternate Tues., Hall No. 1 Mrs. Magdalena Nau, ISO Walnut St.
Amal. Meat & Butcher Workmen, 621 1st and 3rd Wed., T. Clifford Lamb, 571 S. Front St.
Bartenders Union No. 169 1st and 3rd Sun. afternoon, T. Arthur Burns, 334 S. Fifth St.
Brew, and Soft Drink Workers No. 83 2nd and 4th Friday, T. Albert Brown, 501 S. Monument Av.
Barbers Union No. 125 2nd and 4th Mondays, Hall No. 4 Ernest R. Legg, 326 So. 7th St.
Cigar Makers Union No. 128 2nd Monday, Ilall No. 3 Robt. Mick, 509 S. Front St.
Bakers Union No. 81 1st and 3rd Saturday, T. C. Jacob Reidel, 435 Owen St.
Carpenters & Joiners No. 637 Every Thurs., Hall No. 1 A. E. Eggleston, 136 Webster Av.
Boot & Shoe Repairers No. 347 Third Friday, 42 N. Fifth St Henry Bubenheim, 42 N. Fifth St.
City Fii*e B'ighters No. 20 1st Tuesday, T. C. Hll No. 4 Geo. M. Diegmann, 105 N. Kahn Ave.
Electrical Workers Union No. 648 Alternate Tues., T. C. No. 3 Roy Schroder, 419 Chhrles St.
Horse Shoers Union No. 75 1st and 3rd Mon., T. C. No. 3 Frank Mariano, 28 Court St.
Machinists' Local No. 241 Every Wed., T. C. Hall No. 2 John Bios, 350 Cleveland Ave.
Molders' Union No. 68 Every Mon., T. C. No. 1 Tim Farley, 607 Hanover St.
Molders' Union No. 288 Alternate Wed., T. C. No. 1 John Chhalane, 835 S. Ninth St.
Musicians Local No. 31 1st Mon., High and Monument Wm. Glauch, 329 N. 10th St.
Metal Polishers Alternate Wed., T. Geo. Kraft, 706 S. Front St.
Plumbers Union No. 108 1st and 3rd Mon., Sauer's Hall Henry Betscher
Pattern Makers 1st and 3rd Fri., T. C. Hall Phil Kendall, 876 N. Second
Paint. Dec. Paper Hangers No. 135....Every Thurs., T. C. Hall No. 4 Charles Aylstock, 428 S 13th St.
Retail Clerks Union No. 119 2nd and 4th Mon., T. C. Hall No. 1 ....Robt. A. Fallert, 521 Prytainia Ave.
Stove Mounters Union No. 8 1st and 3rd Fri., T. Carl Reister, 1132 Hensley Ave.
Stationary Engineers No. 91 1st and 3rd Mon., T. J. P. Kuenzel, R. R. No. 3.
Stationary Firemen No. 98 2nd and 4th Thurs., 338 High St L. Bucheit, 1207 Maple Ave.
A. A. of S. E. Ry. E. of A 1st Fri., Miamisburg 3rd Fri., Ham.....Harry L. Shank, Miamisburg, Ohio
Street Car Men's Local No. 438 1st Fri Miamisburg 3rd Fri. Ham Robert Evans, W. Fairview Ave.
Theatrical Stage Emp. No. 136 3rd Sun., T. C. Hall John Janser, 1024 Campbell Ave.
Tailors Union No. 358 1st Thurs., 14 N. Third St Wm. J. David, 462 S. Third St.
Typographical Union No. 290 2nd Wed., T. C. Hall No. 4 Mable Warren, P. O. Box 318
Teamsters and Chauffeurs No. 175....
1st and 3rd Thurs., T. Carl Windser, 3003 Griesmer Ave.
Textile Workers of America No. 1089 Alternate Tues., T. Marie Eckert, 930 Laurel Ave.
Woman's Union Label League Alternate Thurs., T. C. No. 2 Lulu Gregg, 1020 John St.
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DISTRICT
Louis Haeffle, 745 Clark St., Cin'ti.
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Reliable Dealers in
Dry Goods. Carpets, Cloaks, Queensware
Millinery. House Furnishings
Voss-Holbrock Stamps with
all Casb Purchases
Meet him at
Cor. Front and Hiffh Sts.
i Hot Haiti"-Reef Sandwiches
Served every Day
•I Lunch Counter Connected
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Bell Phone 630 Home Phone 274
R. C. IMEIN
Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer
Formerly with Hunter-Nein-Schreiner Co.
Office and Residence N. W. Cor Front and Dayton, Hamilton, Ohio
David Webb
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
We carry a full line of Western Casket Co/s Caskets
Suits and Dresses.
THESE ARE UNION MADE GOODS
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