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Newspaper
Cincinnati American
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1914
Page
4
The text asserts the paper will speak freely in criticism or defense of the poor and the rich, the powerful and the humble, and individuals and corporations, based on its honest opinion about what deserves approbation or condemnation.
A committee visits Cincinnati to assess its suitability for a regional bank. Advocates cite Cincinnati as a subtreasury city and gateway to the South, with a 300 mile radius population base, improving river projects, strong local banks, and superior state bank clearings.
The Cincinnatian urges speedy canal improvement and removal of private leases that keep the canal as an eyesore and disease source. It argues eliminating the canal rental would cut mortality, boost interurban rail traffic into Cincinnati, expand markets, lower costs for farm goods, and spur local business growth.
Next Tuesday evening the Chamber of Commerce will host a meeting to discuss a spring clean up campaign. The effort aims to eliminate neglect in buildings yards sidewalks streets alleys and similar areas. The Loyal Order of Boosters is urged to contribute ideas and help.
A historical notice discusses a Free Legal Department and questions on wills and property acquired after will creation. It notes how posthumous acquisitions pass as if held at the time of the will, and raises issues of contract, delivery defects, and divorce jurisdiction across states.
The article surveys French dominance in North Africa from Algiers to Morocco, praising expansion and modernization. It notes railroads and irrigation, the Sahara’s development, and urban growth in Oudjda and Marina while contrasting a cleaner European quarter with a dirtier native town, once plagued by brigandage now quiet under French rule.
A humorous poem in which a frail ghost mutters about its fate as it approaches the New Year pledge. The speaker recalls past exorcisms by priests and dignified phantoms and notes the ghost seeks a place near the dump to vanish. The piece ends with a plea to cover the specter as a New Year pledge.
A reader urges retaining and beautifying the canal as a city jewel with a municipal playground. Proposes irregular banks with benches trees and grass, gravel bottom, clarified waters, regattas skating, lowered cement bridges and a south side boulevard with a possible subway.
A newspaper invited readers to write what they consider the most beautiful thing. The winner wrote The eyes of my mother. A second prize described the dream of the impossible. The letter touches domestic life with a humorous twist about a dress maker’s bill and suspicions.
A man on a street car hides a book under his coat and debates loaning it, while a stranger jokes he will take it home. The man delays and alights late, leaving the other passenger to retrieve the book with a wry punchline.
A humorous verse by Edith Virginia Branch mocks weather doomsters who cite goose bones vines and celestial signs to predict blizzards. It urges calm resilience with playful rhymes and a shrug at superstition.
A brief humorous exchange from London Opinion and Birmingham Age Herald contrasts rejecting a mince pie with a grimly comic remark about an all steel train. The chatter hints at social wryness and pointed travel references in historic satire.
An exchange hints at a boy’s desire to escape school as a Great Author describes how he feels in that moment. The dialogue reveals themes of pressure and longing within a school setting.
An aged travelogue style sketch portrays John D Rockefeller as a dominant American figure living near New York with a Cleveland residence. It highlights his wealth, philanthropy, golf status, hair, and health quirks, noting extravagant giving and long career as a self made man born in New York in 1939.
A nostalgic riff contrasts past and present living costs, noting higher prices for steak eggs chicken butter and groceries while wage expectations and social trends shift. It mocks optimistic sayings and lampoons clingy ads and fashion while bemoaning modern expenses and the chase for status.
Charles Frederic Goss extols Ellen Key as the world's greatest woman arguing her genius spans past present and future. He says her writings should reach every woman and urges balanced home life ambition and moral duty as central to progress and spiritual motherhood.
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