Why Delay Longer Depot Revocation Meeting Crowd Demands Real Depot
At Council Chamber tomorrow at 4 p m citizens discuss revoking the White Bleekman depot franchise which officials say is dead. The Business Men's Club led by President Edwards backs a faster depot movement urging action and urging citizens to attend the public meeting to press for a tangible depot project.
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Council Chamber
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Business Men’s Club
Greater
Cincinnati
Watch and Wait: Wilsons Mexico Policy Decried as Inaction
The piece critiques President Wilsons Mexico policy of watchful waiting after Huertas dictatorship. It argues the United States has meddled without clear aims and calls for a definite post Huerta policy to guide both Mexican and American interests. It compares past Civil War in the United States and English restraint to urge firm action.
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Wilson
Congress
Mexico
Huerta
Carranza
United States
England
America
Government tax dodge and sharp satirical lines
A satirical take highlights a government annual income beyond 1 billion and ponders fairness in a jury of eleven farmers for a horse doctor trial. It jests about Princess de Sagan valuing an ivory back-scratcher as an heirloom and questions Senor Huerta's restraint amid Mexico’s remaining millions to be claimed.
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Princess de Sagan
Senor Huerta
Mexico
Hunters More Deadly Than Soldiers In 1913 Record
The 1913 record reports 185 killed and 140 wounded among hunters, suggesting higher fatality rates than soldiers. The Cucaracha slide isn’t new despite claims of a fresh movement. Congress might compromise with Dr. Cooke by paying mileage for his North Pole journey claim. Colonel Goethals has given no sign of a lecture appearance.
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Congress
Dr. Cooke
North Pole
Canal Engineer Near Death As Wife Stands By
Physicians at Johns Hopkins Hospital say all hope is abandoned for Lt. Col. David Dubois Gaillard, a army engineer who dug Culbern and worked in the Panama Canal. His physical and mental collapse followed months of strain, with his wife remaining constantly at his side.
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
David Dubois Gaillard
Panama Canal
Free Legal Department Answers Inquiries Via Paper Columns
A city newspaper outlines a Free Legal Department offering concise legal answers by mail or column. Signers are kept confidential. The notice invites readers to send questions about family property shares, partition, title deeds, and related matters, noting sample scenarios and disclaimers.
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Free
Legal Department
Cincinnati American
East Seventh Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Picture stamps take over where postcards fade away
A new craze called Reclame Marken, the picture stamp, is sweeping the US and Germany alike. Larger than postage stamps, perforated, adhesive, and colorful, these art filled labels are collected by young and old. Originated from chocolate poster showcards, manufacturers turned them into miniature stamps mailed with letters and postcards, sparking a widespread collecting boom.
Dinner Tales From a Mayoral Hall Wayward Night
Patrick O Grady attended a social session in the town hall second story and became convivial. An hour later a friend found him at the foot of a stairway and helped him up. A clergyman quipped about the wicked, a gossiping old woman offered a sharp retort about gnashing teeth.
What the Other Fellow Is Saying collection
A collage of quips and witticisms from multiple papers. Jests range from social mishaps in Cincinnati to economics of dinner trips and playful banter on manners, marriage, and farm life. The snippets capture era humor and public voices with varied locales and personalities.
Squeaky shoes and lateness play on stage
A playful exchange quotes Puck about a man with squeaky shoes arriving late, and the man who arrives late wearing squeaky shoes. The line hints at a humorous paradox in a theatrical or literary context.
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Puck
Historic quotes mix from newspapers on medicine and politics
A collection of vintage lines notes doctors bleeding patients and cites banter about handwriting on the wall. It also mentions Lt Becker’s claim of being railroaded, Rosenthal’s case, and a press critique of taxation in a modern revenue system.
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Huerta
Belshazzar
Baltimore News
Thieutenant Becker
Rosenthal
Detroit News
Portuguese Republic Strength, Not Crisis, Letter Says
A reader asserts reports of Portuguese discontent are royalist fabrications. The writer claims no revolution exists, prison conditions are not harsh, finances are sound, and local autonomy and education reforms will make Portugal a leading nation in character.
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England
Portugal
Lisbon
Duchens
Bedford
Republic
Old Fashioned Lady and Dance Song Parodies
Nonsensical verses parodying domestic life, dances, and social quirks. Jokes mix pie, venison price, buckwheat cakes, toys, and holiday shopping. Humorous vignettes feature a parade of characters and playful pointed lines about manners and money.
The Preacher by Walt Mason
A preacher debates modern topics with parishioners and a merchant, facing pressure to abandon ancient texts. He critiques crooked schemes and political schemes, then laments the difficulty of pleasing both sides before retreating to his chair.
Civil Engineer: quiet reformer who bends nature with math
A humorous portrait extols civil engineers as quiet planners who reshape land and rivers with logarithms and drawings rather than brute force. It notes their secretive life, wilderness work, and visionary ideas such as orbit experiments before reporting a burglary acquittal for William Bowling by Common Pleas Judge Caldwell's jury.
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William Bowling
Common Pleas
Caldwell
Vincent
Armory Avenue
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