Price Hill Residents to Study Viaduct Plan by Committee
A Price Hill delegation in Masonic Hall passed a motion to form a committee to review the proposed Eighth Street Viaduct with county surveyor and county commissioners offices. Speaker Ek A Gast warned of potential $1,000,000 condemnation costs if Evans Street is extended to Burns Street.
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Price Hill
Masonic Hall
Eighth Street
County Surveyor's
County Commissioners’ Office
William J. Schick
Clifford Brown
Board of County Commissioners
Mr. Schick
John F. Ruehlman
Stephen McGrath
Vincent Beckman
Rees E. McDuffie
F. ©. Mackentepe
Charles C. Oyler
G. C. Prebble
Ohio Physician Killed in Auto Train Crash
Dr. P. bk. Cramer a prominent Springfield physician died at City Hospital from injuries after an automobile with him was struck by a Big Four locomotive. His wife Mrs Harley Beckler suffered a possible spinal fracture and may not recover. Rose Oakes, formerly of Dayton, was seriously injured.
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Associated Press
Springfield
P. Bk. Cramer
City Hospital
Harley Beckler
Ohio
Cramer
Rose Oakes
Dayton
Robbery At Dawn Involving Woman And Husband
Mrs Herman Royer of 1047 Wil stach street was awoken by a Black robber in her room who brandished a public safety item and threatened violence. The intruder bound the husband to the bed with a sheet, then forced Mrs Royer to surrender 47 dollars and change from under a pillow before fleeing after forcing a door. Police found the door to be forced.
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Herman Royer
Wilstach Street
Roger
Boy Shoots Companion in Quarrel Near Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio on December 11, 13 year old Edward Fellows of Georges Run was shot near the heart by 13 year old William Blitho after a quarrel. Blitho retrieved a rifle and fired saying I’ll teach you to bother me. Fellows' condition was described as potentially fatal.
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Associated Press
Steubenville, O
Edward Fellows
Georges Run
William Blitho
Opium Ring Smuggling Exposed in World War Era Case
American Vice Consul George G. Fuller outlined a vast opium smuggling network tied to Chinese warships and officials. He cited three large shipments valued at about 10 million dollars and the Bushire arrest of A M T Woodward as evidence of a trans national ring. Fuller reported the case to the State Department upon arrival in Washington aboard the President Cleveland.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
State Department
Washington
George G. Fuller
Teheran
Persia
Cleveland
Fuller
Bushire
Persian
M. T. Woodward
Woodward
China
United States
Chekiang
United States Customs
Mr. Fuller
Rochester
N. Y
Robert Imbrie
Four Chelsea bootleggers convicted of liquor conspiracy
Four of five men accused by the government were Chelsea bootleggers union members found guilty in Federal Court of conspiring to sell and transport liquor. George Weinstein Ernest Henry Louis Siegel and Samuel Zetzel convicted while chauffeur Arthur Withrow also named Woodrow was acquitted. Nine indicted. four pleaded guilty. An organization the Chelsea Liquor Manufacturers Union allegedly controlled wholesale and retail sales in Chelsea with fixed prices and penalties for breaches.
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Associated Press
Boston
Chelsea
George Weinstein
Ernest
Dutch) Henry
Louis Siegel
Samuel Zetzel
Arthur Withrow
Woodrow
Prohibition
Chelsea Liquor Manufacturers’ Union
Congress urged to lift immigration limits on European domes
Representative Bloom of New York introduced a bill to end immigration restrictions on European women with careers as cooks or housemaids, aiming to solve the domestic servant shortage. The request was made in Washington on December 11.
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Washington
Congress
Representative Bloom
Democrat
New York
Anarchist Gitlow Pardoned by Gov Smith in New York
Benjamin Gitlow, jailed since 1920 for criminal anarchy, is pardoned by Gov. Smith. The governor justified clemency, noting dissenting justices and Gitlow's prison record, and cited his less radical actions compared to the Larkin case. Gitlow had published a Socialist Left Wing manifesto and faced multiple ballot ineligibilities.
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Albany
N. Y
Smith
Benjamin Gitlow
New York
Sing Sing
Gitlow
James J.larkin
Larkin
Court of Appeals
NEW Yok
Socialist Party
New York Court of Appeals
New York City
Board of Erections
Congress
Workingmen’s League
Clergy man preacher tied women by thumbs in Philadelphia case
James J. Johnson a Negro self described clergyman known as the King of his flock was sentenced to ten to twenty years in prison for depravity. Testimony said his church used bells and gongs to summon followers while he flogged women and children and dined in state with young girls attending him.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
James J. Johnson
Johnson
Diamond Fields
Johannesburg
South Africa
Frank Smith
League Names American in Persian Opium Inquiry
Frederick Adrian Delano of Chicago and Fridiano Caygra of Naples join Victor Cayla of France as the League of Nations committee to study opium production in Persia. The panel will advise Teheran on abolishing the poppy crop and finding alternative national revenue sources.
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Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
Frederick Adrian Delano
Chicago
Fridiano Caygra
In University of Naples
Ictor Cayla
League of Nations
Persia
Teheran
P World News Service
World Press Pub. Co
Crew of Cotopaxi Rescued Off Havana
All members of the Cotopaxi crew, missing since last week’s storm, are reported safe in Havana. The steamship itself is declared lost per a cablegram from Clinchfield Navigation Company offices.
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Cotopaxi
Associated Press
Spartansbourg
Havana
Clinchfield Navigation Company
Clinchfield Fuel Company
Machado Elected President of Portugal in row over health
Bernardio Machado has been elected President of Portugal to succeed Teixei Gomes who resigned due to ill health. Machado was ousted from the presidency in 1917 and exiled, but recalled in 1921 to serve as Premier.
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Lisbon
Bernardio Machado
Portugal
Teixei Gomes
Machado
Marriage Licenses Listed With Names and Residences
A list of marriage licenses shows William K Wall residing 1485 Wine St and Beatrice Wall at 667 Steiner St, alongside other couples with given hometowns and street addresses including Mary , Thomas Walker, Clara Rivers, Robert Wheeler, Irene Miller, Howard Hilbert, Anna Troescher, John Reinke, Elizabeth Klimm, Charles Bria and Jane Schmid.
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William K. Wall
Beatrice Wall
Steiner St
Betts St. Mary
St. Thomas Walker
College Hill
O. Clara Rivers
Court St. Robert
E. Wheeler
Elm St
Irene Miller
Howard Hilbert
Herry
Anna Troescher
John Reinke
Mt. Healthy
Elizabeth Klimm
Charles E. Bria
Erie
Jane L. Schmid
Hamilton Av
Health and nutrition discussion at Woman's City Club luncheon
The weekly civic meeting featured Miss Mary L. Hicks and Dr. Theodore Selkirt detailing child health, malnutrition causes, and preventive care. Miss Mabel Skillion reported malnourished children are common even among the affluent, with 2 percent due to poverty and several household factors driving poor nutrition.
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Woman's City Club
Mary L. Hicks
The
Public Health Federation
Adam S. Stokes
Babies’ Milk Fund Association
Theodore 8. Selkirt
University of Cincinnati Medical College
Mabel Skillion
Boston
William R Emerson
Stokes
Wife No 2 to press bigamy case against Seits
Anna Shoe maker Seits plans to prosecute Thomas B Seits on bigamy charges. Seits 60, a traveling salesman, lived with his Lancaster second wife at 3704 Edwards Road. He acknowledged marrying his first wife 38 years ago in Lancaster. The case, postponed for a week, questions local jurisdiction due to a Michigan second marriage.
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Thomas B. Setts
Edwards Road
Anna Shoemaker
Seits
Lancaster
L. L. Lemper
Arthur C. Fricke
Anna Mary Maurer Seits
Sells
Bernard Gilday
Gilday
Michigan
Father and three sons held in theft of shoes
A father George Watt and his three sons Alva Walter and Frank Watt, all of Harrison area, along with William Douglas of Providence Street, are jailed awaiting action by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad officials after 71 pairs of shoes were stolen from a box car near Hamilton. Frank and Walter Watt were arrested after police found stolen accessories in their home following an attempted theft from an automobile.
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Harrison
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Hamilton
George Watt
Alva Watt
Walter Watt
Frank Watt
Cincinnati Pike
William Douglas
Providence Street
Frank
Marshal Loos
Auto Strike Injures Man and Boy in Street Crossing
Peter Kaish a 40 year old of 504 West Seventh street carried his three year old nephew Louis Douglas of 325 Milton street across Sycamore and Liberty streets when struck by Milton Maddox of 634 Orient avenue. Kaish suffered a fractured left leg and the boy was bruised. Witnesses called the accident unavoidable.
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Peter Kaish
West Seventh Street
Louis Douglas
Milton Street
Sycamore
Liberty Streets
Milton Maddox
Orient Avenue
Bankruptcy Schedules List D. H. Moul Lumber Liabilities
The D. H. Moul Lumber Company of Cincinnati shows liabilities of 033.02 and assets of 5 672.48 in voluntary bankruptcy schedules. Secured claims total 87 588.50 and unsecured 36 876.91. Judge Hickenlooper also adjudged the Crown Tailoring Company bankrupt on petition from L. Bochman & Co and other New York creditors.
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D. H. Moul Lumber Company
Cincinnati
Hickenlooper
Crown Tailoring Company
L. Bochman & Co
New York City
New York
Shrine meeting announced by Syrian Temple New Mexico
Stated meeting at the nave Cathedral northeast corner Ninth and Plum this Saturday evening at 8 oclock Visiting Nobles welcome Shrine card admits Willard D Haines Potentate F Wm Harte Recorder
James F Roach Dies in Jacksonville Florida
James F Roach a 70 year old former music teacher at the Conservatory of Music died in Jacksonville Florida on Thursday morning. Born in Cincinnati he moved to Florida fourteen months ago. Funeral services are set in Jacksonville. He leaves wife Lillian two daughters Mrs Scott and Miss de Roach and five sons Edward Frank John William and Charles.
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Jacksonville
Fla
James F. Roach
Conservatory of Music
W. C. Scott
Paradrome Street
Mr. Roach
Cincinnati
Conservatory
Mt. Auburn
Old Conservatory
Lytle Street
Scott
Roach
Lillian Franklin Roach
Miss de Roach
Chicago
Edward
Augusta
Frank
John
Riverside
William
Madeira
Charles Roach
Mt. Adams
Pfetzing elected head of Spanish War Veterans
John Pfetzing was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Harry C. Egbert Camp No. 1, United Spanish War Veterans, at Memorial Hall last night. Officers named include Eugene Dempsey Senior Vice Commander J B Whale Junior Vice Commander Otto Beirman Officer the Day Jed Benjamin Officer of the Guard and Joseph B Sweeney Trustee for a three year term. A business meeting followed with discussion of a pension bill before Congress.
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John Pfetzing
Harry C. Egbert Camp
United Spanish War Veterans
Memorial Hall
Eugene Dempsey
J. B. Whale
Otto Beirman
Jed Benjamin
Guard
Joseph B. Sweeney
Congress
Palmotor Saves Infant From Death at Birth
A ten pound blue eyed boy born to Mrs William Hilze at 1939 Mears Avenue Mt Washington last night was saved from death by the Fire Department Life Saving Squad under Captain Williams. Dr Harry Behymer summoned the squad and worked with the palmoter for over three hours. at 12 10 midnight the baby breathed normally.
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Fire Department
Williams
William Hilze
Mears Avenue
Mt. Washington
Harry Behymer
Linton Avenue
Palmoter
Behymer
Weather Summary for Ohio and Surrounding States
Partly cloudy and colder for Ohio with possible northwest snow flurries. rain or snow in north areas by Sunday. Kentucky fair but colder with light rain possible in the north by Sunday night. Tennessee fair and cooler, West Virginia cloudy and colder with light mountain rain turning to snow flurries. Sunday clears. Indiana mostly fair, colder south, Sunday unsettled. The report notes temperatures and precipitation for December 11, 1926, with a 7 pm reading and comparisons to prior years and normal.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Indiana
S.W
Backriess
Central Avenue Association Renamed By Directors
The Central Avenue Improvement Association was renamed The Central Avenue Business Men's Association by the board at the Grand yesterday. W. E. Conley, staff member at National Works Cleveland, will address the Foremen's Club at the Chain of Commerce on December 15 on advances in incandescent lamp equipment.
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Central Avenue Improvement Association
Central Avenue Business Men's Association
Grand
W. E. Conley
Chain of Commerce
Con
National Works
Cleveland
Iean
River traffic updates and solid signals from Cincinnati
The Ohio River at Cincinnati stood at 19 feet and falling at 6 pm. Cargo ships and towboats were active with arrivals from Louisville and Pomeroy. The John W. Hubbard scheduled from Louisville this morning and returning tonight, while the Tom Greene heads from Charleston this evening. The Margaret of Inland Waterway Co. passed upstream with empty barges yesterday.
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Ohio River
Cincinnati
John W. Hubbard
Louisville
Tom Greene
Charleston
Margaret
Inland Waterway Company
Death notices and funeral details in a 1925 column
A compact obituary section lists deaths December 10 11 1925 including William D Crowley at 640 June Street and William Dwyer at 1781 Kinney Avenue Walnut Hills. It notes funeral plans from J J Sullivan Co Bell Place and McMillan Street and St. Francis de Sales Church and Church of the Assumption. Additional notices include Mary Thorne Kibby James I Stephenson and others with funeral home details and interment or service locations.
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Kinney Avenue
Walnut Hilla
Mounier
St. Francis de Sales Church
Kibly
Mary Thorne
Alexandra Apata
Gilbert Avenue
Locust Street
St. Xavier's Church
Mobile
Ala
Rumpke
Christian
Louisa Rumpke
Kroeger
Henry Rumpke
Beekman Street
Dremnan Avenue
First Evangelical Protestant
Hoffner Street
Suhre
Olive M
J . D. Suhre
Stanton Avenue
Oldenburg
Ind
Joseph Hutch Sons
Vine Street
Stephenson
James I
Louisa Stephenson
Vernon Manor
J. J. Sullivan & Co
Bell Place
McMillan Street
Glendale Cemetery
Four youths sought in Covington kidnapping and robbery
Walter Becker a 43 year old employee of Barker Freisen Jewelry was abducted near Wooster Pike and Eastern Avenue. The four youths in a Kentucky registered car stole 6065 and a diamond ring after binding Becker and leaving him by the railroad crossing. Police traced a sighting near Third and Rose streets and near Davis Lane, with Becker escaping after untangling ropes. The men reportedly wore distinct outfits and had manicured nails.
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Walter Becker
Garrard Street
Covington
Barker & Freisens Jewelry Company
Central Avenue
Kentucky
Becker
Wooster Pike
Russell Street
Proctor
Eastern Avenue
Charles Boldt Glass Works
Davis Lane
Ernest Dawkings
Shearwood
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Deen
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Freeman Avenue
William Courtenay
Distinguished
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PAWLE
Hammond
XMAS
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Mtu
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Ann Pennington
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Bickr
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