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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1925
Page
4
The Commercial Tribune publishes general news and notices for Cincinnati Ohio reference details of distribution and pricing including daily and Sunday copies. The paper announces staff and addresses and notes Associated Press rights and republication rules for dispatches.
The Geneva dispatch notes China withdrew from the Advisory Opium Commission after the U S exit. The piece argues Western powers exploit China while the United States remains patient and helpful, earning Chinese esteem and pledging to heed Washington's guidance.
An editorial argues for drastic action against violent criminals like Dutch Anderson and One Arm Wolfe calling for swift punishment or deportation to protect society. It laments rising murder rates and urges decisive, even terroristic, measures to purge such killers and preserve civilization.
The piece questions how to make dollar bills durable and how to craft an economic system that sustains domestic needs and savings. It notes the Treasury tried issuing heavy cartwheel silver dollars and the public’s resistance to the two-dollar bill as part of the longstanding currency dilemma.
A county patrol for traffic safety will not immediately change driving, but can enact earnest efforts. Four officers cannot patrol every road daily yet can cover large areas and patrol by day and night, keeping lawbreakers in fear with uncertain enforcement times. The note cites Ludlow, Kentucky thefts and a failed safe blow as examples, and mentions a new fundamentalist college planned in Dayton Tennessee.
A poetic column mocks authority and civic service while urging resilience for citizens and voters. It contains verses about traffic cops judges bandits and a patriotic call to courage, followed by satirical notes on navy recruitment weather reports and a doctor’s health claim.
A bite sized diary excerpt by O C McIntyre in New York detailing a day of meals, train fare, a Long Beach ride, and visits with friends. It also profiles the Dorothy Antel Bedside Agency and its bedridden founder known as The Sunshine Girl, plus observations on loneliness, hotel Bible pranks, and Grand Central celebrity spotting.
A collage of 1875 items notes Mrs. Julia A Harwood’s death and Civil War era sheltering of fugitive slaves. Police beatings and arrests mark a rough day in the Eleventh Ward. A building permit for a four story Linn and Everett block valued at 11500. A Philadelphia publishing house sees a marriage ruin as R D Barney sails to Europe. New officers lead the local workers group. St Nicholas Hotel owner builds a private residence on Seventh west of Mound. Weather is cloudy to threatening with temperatures 65 to 83.
The Baltimore & Ohio flyer crashed into a Winton Place street car killing three and injuring ten. Victims include Robert J. Smith and William Tueting Jr. Witnesses and injured named from Mitchell Avenue to Derby and Park avenues. Arrests of seventeen dairymen for watered milk followed. A $100 reward was offered for horse-killing culprits tied to the Coal Company. A Kentucky feud on Carl street led to public quarrel and Squire Tibbles mediation. Weather: cloudy to clear with 67 to 76 degrees.
A doctor warns against pure white in patient rooms citing a case of infant nervous exhaustion in which excess white light and whitened surroundings aggravated nerves. He describes subdued lighting with greens and blues aiding recovery and notes white as antiseptic but fatiguing to the eye. References Jacobs on color theory. cautions against exclusively white decor. Tomorrow notes on mosquito bites.
The quiz asks who is called the Father of the Prohibition Movement and the Patriarch of New England, who ordered the abolition of the Spanish Inquisition, which pope divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal, who commanded Fort Sumter and who led Confederate troops, plus when a requiem is used and where Booth Tarkington was born and his state office, and which port is the world’s greatest harbor.
Shipping news lists vessels arriving in August from Naples Glasgow and other ports and upcoming departures to Liverpool Bremen London Bermuda Buenos Aires Kingston and more with scheduled times and ports of call for Cunard and other lines.
Travel worn society matron Mrs. George Alson Tracy Thomson returned to North Amityville from Nova Scotia after vanishing from her Kew Gardens home following her husband’s party absence. She spoke of a trip to Yarmouth and said there was no man in the case while declining to discuss details. A family conference with her mother and lawyer will decide whether she resumes life with her husband.
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune. In New Richmond Ohio on August 16 Marshal Ireton halted a pursuit after firing at a fleeing auto carrying two men and a woman from Cincinnati. He charged Ben Snyder and wife and Jess Mackelfresh with being drunk and disorderly after dragging a woman into the car and fleeing at high speed.
Senator Copeland reports his mother Mrs Roscoe P. Copeland died at her Dexter Michigan home near Detroit. She was in her eighty second year and sixty fourth year of marriage. He rushed to Michigan from New York after she fell ill August 8 and returns Wednesday with his father. Miss Cornelis Copeland is in Europe.
Amboayana Malaya August 16 The Italian aviator Commander Francesco De Pinedo on a flight from Italy toward Japan arrived here today after a three day delay at Thursday Island due to bad weather.
William Green, head of the AFL, says Congress should cut tariff protections for textile makers who cut wages. He cites 10 percent reductions in Willimantic amid stock dividends up to 2000 percent and evictions from company housing to enforce cuts.
Volunteer firemen quenched an early blaze at the Richardson Company paper warehouse in Lockland. The fire started in stored stock and, despite sprinkler fireproof construction, caused damage not exceeding 2000 dollars according to company officials. The watchman first spotted the fire and firefighters brought it under control.
Abraham S. Schomer, a playwright and historian, claims moonlight triggered human evolution by fear of the moon’s face. He posits that fascination and terror drove prehistoric humans from trees to caves, making the moon the first deity and the missing link in psychology and biology.
A letter from A Lenck of New York praises a two year old’s exclamations as a sign of linguistic discovery. The writer contrasts popular names with scientific terms, while noting how philology evolves away from precise Latin roots as language changes. J Otis Swfft reflects on naming and meaning.
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