Helen Keller Comes To Cincinnati For Luncheon
More than a thousand Cincinnatians attend a luncheon at Gibson Root Garden honoring Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy. The event highlights Keller's journey from blindness and deafness to education and public involvement, urging support for the American Foundation for the Blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Macy
Helen Keller
Radcliffe College
Anne Sullivan
A. Julius Freiberg
Chamber of Commerce
Mrs.Macy
Helen
Macy
Slater
Miss Keller
Cincinnati
Emery ‘Auditorium
Americah Foundation For
Helen Keller Foundation
Keller Party
Robert B. Irwin
New York
Helen Keller Treated Warmly at Chamber Luncheon
The Commercial Tribune reports Helen Keller praised reporters as friends who do not misquote her during a special interview at the Hotel Gibson before about 1,000 attendees. Secretary Polly Thomson relayed Keller’s remarks on modern women, noting New York women as expensive and lazy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Keller
The
Commercial Tribune
Chamber of Commerce
Miss Keller
Hotel Gibson
Polly Thomson
Miss Thomson
A. Julius Freiberg
Cincinnati
New York
Orange Grove at Auto Show Opens Saturday
Thousands of real oranges will be suspended from orange trees for the Automobile Show at Music Hall opening Saturday at 6 pm. J W Tarbill funds the oranges to decorate the display and they will be donated to children after the show ends January 18. Dealers stage the 1925 models with new features and meticulous preparation to dress the cars for the opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Hall
J. W. Tarbill
Cincinnati Automobile Dealers' Association
Jack Tarbill
Cincinnati
Ed Steinway
Fire Prevention Bureau
Woman Enters Store As Hold-Up Is Staged
Ernest Whitson, manager of a grocery at Highland and Rochelle Avenues, was held by two robbers who fled after a bystander woman entered and tapped the counter with a coin. The thieves had demanded $10 from the cash register and gagged Whitson, but paused and left when the woman appeared. Police did not locate the suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Whitson
Melish Avenue
Highland
Rochelle Avenues
Whitson
Two Held to Grand Jury in Grocery Robbery
Walter Kruse of Covington Kentucky and Frank Connor of Los Angeles California were sent to the grand jury on robbery charges with bonds set at 10000 each after arraignment in Municipal Court. Kruse allegedly robbed Milton Stevens manager of a 631 Pearl Street grocery of 114.48 on December 31 while Connor acted as lookout and both were captured after Simon Billiter chased them in a stolen car and held them at gunpoint until officers arrived.
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Walter Kruse
Covington
Frank Connor
Los Angeles
Cal
Milton Stevens
Pearl Street
Kruse
Connor
Simon Billiter
Garrard Street
O'Neill
Fricke
City Council Extends Flag Pole Socket Ordinance
The Cincinnati City Council approved extending the permit for metal flag pole sockets to all streets. Councilman Frank Duttenhofer introduced the ordinance, expanding the previous permission granted on Vine Street to encompass the entire city for the Robert E. Bentley Post of the American Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Bentley
The
American Legion
Cincinnati
Legion
Vine Street
Frank Duttenhofer
City Women Form Safety Panel for Taxicab Drivers
Eighteen organizations met at the Woman's City Club to push safety for riders. A special committee led by Mrs. W E Stilwell will study protections offered by taxicab companies and drivers following a recent attack on a woman traveler. Judge Yeatman pledged full cooperation.
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Woman's City Club
W.E. Stilwell
Union Station
Henrietta Utz
Public Welfare Department
Anne Tracey
Travelers’ Aid
W. E. Stilwell
George Hoadley
Cincinnati Woman's Club
R.J. E. Caldwell
Federated Mothers’ Clubs
John Wachman
Council of Jewish Women
H. Ferris
League of Women Voters
Evangeline Rafferty
Federation of Churches
Gas fumes claim another autoist
Guy F. Selby, 43, an insurance agent of 3734 Hutton Avenue, was found asphyxiated in a garage at 3753 Hutton Avenue with the car motor running while he was placing skid chains. Mrs. Joseph W. Sunday reported the death. Life Saving Squad spent two hours on the body. Selby belonged to Queen City Lodge F and AM Hyde Park and would have presided over his first stated meeting Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy F. Selby
Hutton Avenue
Selby
Joseph W. Sunday
Capital Uses Radio in Economy Program
A. Lee Beaty, Assistant US District Attorney, received the first official radiogram from Attorney General Harlan F. Stone via Station CA-4 at F%. Thomas. The message signals government cost savings through Army Signal Corps radio relay, with 127 stations planned nationwide. It notes no women’s prison has been chosen yet. several women prisoners remain in Hamilton County Jail awaiting transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Lee Beaty
United States District Attorney
Harlan F. Stone
CA-4
Thomas
Signal Corps of
Army
United States
Army Signal Corps
Hamilton County
Ohio Legion Commander to Install Officers
Major Milo J. Warner of Toledo will install officers of the F. W. Galbraith Jr. Post 515 American Legion at Gibson Thursday evening January 15. Colonel Dana T. Merrill will attend. Officers include Arch D. McCartney Commander Roy M. Harvey Sergeant Major James Toner Second Vice Commander Arthur W. Gordon Adjutant Stanley Isaacs Finance Officer Vicent De Napoli Sergeant at Arms John F. Herget Chaplain Stanley Pounsford Counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo J. Warner
Toledo
Ohio Department of the American Legion
F. W. Galbraith Jr
American Legion
Gibson
Dana T. Merrill
Ft. Thomas
Arch D.mccartney
Roy M. Harvey
James Towner
Arthur W. Gordon
Stanley Isaacs
Vicent de Napoli
John F. Herget
Stanley Pounsford
Caste Descriptions by Jesuit Bishop in Patna Speech
The Rt. Rev. Louis Van Hoeck, Jesuit Bishop of Patna, spoke to St. Xavier students in Alumni Hall about caste’s impact on education and social improvement in the Far East. He commended Rev. Henry P. Milet and noted a Catholic Students' Mission Crusade purse was given to him. The bishop scheduled talks at Villa Madonna Academy and Notre Dame Academies with a St Xavier alumni meeting in Recreation Hall this evening.
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India
Louis van Hoeck
Patna
St. Xavier
Alumni
Far East
Henry P. Milet
S.J
Milet
Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade
van Hoeck
Villa Madonna
Ludlow
College of the Sacred Heart
Clifton
Notre Dame
Sixth Street
Grandin Road
St Xavier
Recreation Hall
Anti-Saloon League Backs Donahey in Ohio Meeting
Governor Donahey received unanimous approval from the Ohio Anti-Saloon League Board of Trustees at their annual meeting in Columbus. The body praised Prohibition Commissioner McDonald and commended Donahey for fearless enforcement of the prohibition laws. Rev. E. J. Moore was elected state superintendent, succeeding Rev. T. M. Hare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Donahey
Only Borrowed Auto Letter to Police Emerges
Detectives Charlies Diers and Christian Wolf report a note claiming a borrowed car at Ninth and Walnut. They found the auto with a sleeping youth, Boone Saylor, 19, of Broadhead Kentucky, who claimed he slept in the car and did not steal it. He was held for investigation.
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Ninth and
Walnut Streets
Charlies Diers
Christian Wolf
Automobile Squad
Boone
Saylor
Broadhead
Re upholstering service offers home visits for estimates
A house call program invites customers to receive at home samples for re upolstery work to measure and estimate the project.
Trackage land added to industrial zone designation
The City Planning Commission designated a 600 by 300 foot tract between the Norfolk and Western Railroad and Sherman Avenue as part of the industrial area. Formerly in Residence C territory, the site now receives zoning status. Charles F. Hornberger reported owners of curb gasoline pumps agreed to remove pumps from the curb within weeks, with permission to keep tanks under sidewalks, action approved by the commission.
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Norfolk & Western Railroad
Sherman Avenue
City Planning Commission
Charles F. Hornberger
Commission
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Harvey
Grand Canyon National Park
F. G. Burnett
Santa Fe Ry
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Cleveland
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Plum
Vine St
Central
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Peebles Corner
Woodburn
Walnut Hills
Spring Grove
Harrison
Winton Place
the Union Trust
N. W. Corner Fourth and Walnut
Yeatman
Capital
Beaty
Ohio Legion
Anti-Saloon League
Strong
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the Alleghenies
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Shillito’s
Cafe Au Lait
Reed Davenport
Seventh Street
Davenport
Universal Electric
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