Taft Home Displays Rare Museum Quality Art Collection
Royal Cortissez lauds the Taft art group on Pike Street praising Dutch and English masters and Barbizon pieces. He calls the collection museum worthy and urges Cincinnati to preserve the paintings with a $2.5 million gift and $1 million endowment as a lasting civic treasure.
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Barbizon
Charles P. Taft
Pike Street
Cincinnati
Royal Cortissez
New York Herald Tribune
Taft
Institute of Fine Arts
Cortisson
United States
Europe
Duveneck
Moonshine Blaze Hurts Woman as Three Brothers Face Charges
Moonshine in a stove sparked a blaze at 1062 Oehler Street. Mrs Myrtle Rockman, 23, suffered burns and was taken to General Hospital. Brewsster Brewster Gramke charged with reporting the disturbance. brothers Mahan Callahan and Merrill Callahan, 26 and 19, of 723 Betts Street, charged with disorderly conduct.
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General Hospital
Pees Brewster
Gramke
Oehler Street
Myrtle Rockman
Mahan
Stanley Calla
Merrill Callahan
Brothers
Betts Street
U S Liner Grounded Off Mojit In Lun Sea
An Exchange Telegraph report from Moji Japan says the American liner President Monroe ran aground off Mojit in the Lun Sea while en route from Kobe to Shanghai. The vessel was believed to be safe.
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U. S
London
Moji
Japan
President Monroe
Mojit
Lun Sea
Kobe
Shanghai
West Side hold-up ends when gun misfires
A hold-up man in Chicago on January 8 claimed he was a straight shooter from the West and threatened patrons at a West Side restaurant. He fired at pots and pans, but the hammer fell on an empty shell, allowing proprietors and three patrons to overpower him until police arrival. He gave the name Frank Lauder.
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Chicago
West
West Side
Frank Lauder
Jokers Death Ends In Accidental Shooting Test
Rubin Weingrove a New Haven railroad special policeman died when a joke invitation to a friend to shoot his brains out led to an accidental discharge. Frank Donnellan held on a technical homicide charge as the incident occurred during a pistol test.
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New York
Rubin Weingrove
Weingrove
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Frank Donnellan
Lindbergh to Depart for Panama at 2 O'Clock
Charles A. Lindbergh plans to depart for Panama at 2 PM from San Jose Costa Rica tomorrow. He cited uncertainty over Panama City landing field readiness and noted an alternate field in the Canal Zone. The flight is expected to take three to four hours and he will skip Colombia and Venezuela on this trip.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Charles A. Lindbergh Hiana
Panama
Panama City
Canal Zone
Columbia
Venezuela
Washroom cache used to smuggle stories from Sing Sing
Ruth Snyder and her mother used the warden discovered route via the matron's lavatory to smuggle notes and a true story for tabloid publication from Sing Sing. Attorneys pursued stays and a writ of error as the scheduled electric chair death loomed for Snyder and Gray.
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New York
Ruth Snyder
Ossining
N. Y
Henry Judd Gray
Laney
Albert Snyder
Queens Village
Samuel L._. Miller
Gray
Smyder
Joseph Lonardo
Snyder
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Sing Sing
Chicago official charged with stealing lists
Former Chicago health commissioner Dr Herman Bundesen faced formal charges for taking city mailing lists from City Hall. The lists included baby birth registrations for Aug 1925 to Nov 1927 with about 200000 names valued at up to 50 cents each. Dr. Bundesen claimed copies existed but original materials remained in the department.
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Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Arnold H. Kegel
Bundesen
Kegel
Department of Health
Attroney
Attorney Elmer J. Joest Dies at 37 in Cincinnati
Elmer J. Joest 37 junior partner at Gusweiler Foster Lambert Joest died at home 3220 West Eighth Street after a three week illness. Born in Cincinnati 1890 he rose from night high school to Y M C A night law school and joined Gusweiler’s firm in 1921. An expert in tax and probate matters he was active in Eastern Star Masonry and Elks. He leaves his widow Lydia and his parents. Burial planned at Spring Grove Cemetery with services likely Wednesday or Thursday.
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Elmer J. Joest
Gusweiler, Foster, Lambert & Joest
Frank R. Gusweiler
West Eighth Street
Mr. Joest
Cincinnati
Anchor Buggy Company
Eagle Carriage Company
Gusweiler
Joest
Eastern Star Lodge
Columbian
Oakley
Cincinnati Elks’ Lodge
Edward Joest
Lydia Joest
Spring Grove Cemetery
Toymaker J H Wittenborg Dies at 64
Joseph H. Wittenborg, 64, president of the Wittenborg Toy Company, died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital after months of neuritis. Born in Germany December 10, 1863, he immigrated to the United States in 1881, lived in Newport, later Cincinnati, and founded his toy company. He is survived by his wife Jessie and daughter Therese Weldon. Funeral Tuesday at Sullivan Funeral Home with burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Newport.
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Joseph H. Wittenborg
Wittenborg Toy Company
Main Street
Good Samaritan
Mr. Wittenberg
Newport
Germany
United States
Memphis
Tenn
Cincinnati
Licht & Wankelman Company
Jessie Wittenborg
Nelson Place
Therese Weldon
Miami
Fla
Sullivan Funeral Home
East
McMillan Street
Evergreen Cemetery
Three youths and girl die as train hits auto at grade crossing
In SpNator ia Miss on January 8, an Illinois Central special train struck a small automobile at a grade crossing. Three high school students from here died instantly: W. T. Bailey Jr., 17 Vance Baker, 18 Ruth Brickle, 18. The train carried 150 Ohio tourists bound for California.
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Spnatoria
Miss
Illinois Central
Bailey
Baker
Vance
Brickle
Ruth
Ohio
California
Fatal rooming-house fire linked to cigarette
Luther Morrison, 42, was found in flames in a rooming house at Mercer and Vine streets after lighting a cigarette and going to sleep. He died at General Hospital last night from burns, with the coroner citing the cause as cigarette burns.
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Luther Morrison
Mercer and
Vine Streets
Morrison
General Hospital
Swing
Two Killed in Gun Duel In Johnston City
In Johnston City Tennessee Tom S. Church assistant chief of police and Raymond Stroup were killed in a pistol duel during an arrest attempt. Church wounded Stroup who had reportedly been released from a Virginia prison for murder.
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Johnston City
Tenn
Tom S. Church
Raymond Stroup
Church
Stroup
Virginia State Penitentiary
LaGuardia Alleges NY Prohibition Unit Collusion
Representative LaGuardia charges collusion between New York prohibition agents and bootleggers. He cites evidence from Christmas investigations, shows stamps with double cancellations, and urges reinforcements and higher salaries for the Customs Office to curb smuggled liquor from ocean liners.
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Washington
New York
New York City
Prohibition
Prohibition Bureau
Boil To Death In Lime Vat At Local Mill
Walker Cones aged 39 of Middletown was boiled to death in a lime water vat at the American Rolling Mills plant in Middletown shortly after 3 AM. Coroner Howard Cook said a passing crane may have struck him, lifting his body over a safety wall into the tank. Cones, a husband and father of five, died almost instantly.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
Walker Cones
Woodlawn Avenue
Middletown
American Rolling Mills
Butler C
Lioward Cook
Cones
Afghan Emir and Queen Enter Rome on European Visit
The Emir Amanullah Khan of Afghanistan and his Queen arrived in Rome for a three day official visit, greeted by King Victor Emmanuel and Mussolini. Their escort planes collided, killing one pilot, as crowds welcomed the party at the Quirinal palace and at Naples. The Queen appeared unveiled and wore a black dress with red roses.
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Rome
Afghanistan
Amanullah Khan
Europe
Quirinal Palace
Naples
Victor Emanuel
Elena
Humberto
Mussolini
Il] Duce
Piazza Dell’ Escdra
Spada Potenziani
St. Peters
Quirinal
St. Peter’s
Victor Emanuel II
Papal Rome
Italy
France
England
Prisoner Crash Kills Two and Injures Marshal in Street Car Collision
London reports two prisoners dead and a marshal seriously injured when a police car collided with a Pennsylvania train while en route to jail. Prisoner William Feeley lightly injured, detained. Earl O'Brien and William Baker killed. James Feeley detained. Marshal Beathard severely wounded, condition serious but may recover.
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Marshal
London
Pennsylvania
Marshal Sherman Beathard
Earl O’brien
William G. Baker
Marshal Beathard
William Feeley
Feeley
James Feeley
William
Columbus
Seventeen S-4 Victims Identified and Buried Plans
Boston dispatch reports identification of ten recovered S-4 crewmen at Chelsea Naval Hospital, with names including Ford, Fennell, Seaton, Bethke, Calcott, Haaland, Sudges, Ted ar, Long, and Burrell. High priority burials planned in Arlington and national cemeteries. remaining bodies to be shipped to homes or burial sites including the Philippines and California.
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Boston
Provincetown
Chelsea Naval Hospital
Ford
Charles A
Washington, D. C
Naval Board of Inspection and Survey
Fennell
John Joseph
Lowell
Mass
Seaton
Alfred Eugene
Norfolk
Bethke
Clarence Ferdinand
Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Calcott
Charles Beresford
Melrose Park
Ill
Haaland
Peder
Ada
Minn
Mate
Sudges
Arthur Frederick
New London
Conn
Tedar
Mariano
Occidental
Negros
P. I
Long
J. H
Gainesville
Tex
Burrell
Charles Frederick
Tamaqua
Seaman
Naval Hospital
Navy Department
Washington
Military Cemetery
Arlington
William F. Callaway
Chevy Chase
James Johnson White
Rock Mart
Carl Harold Thompson
San Francisco
San
Heroic efforts curb Thames flood danger
London January 8 The rising Thames threatened Westminster Abbey as sandbag barriers held at the Tate Gallery. Art treasures survived as workers reinforced defenses with aid from Salvation Army bands and a flood relief center remained active. No new deaths reported amid warnings of higher tides Tuesday.
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London
Thames
Westminster Abbey
Tate Gallery
Rational Gallery of British Art
Salvation Army Band
Westminster
Vauxhall
Port of London Authority
Weather Bureau
Policeman Fatally Shoots Friend in Apparent Hold-Up Error
Baltimore police say William Willekin a 51 year old Baltimore and Ohio Railroad policeman shot and killed Emil Weiland a 37 year old brakeman after mistaking him for a would be attacker They were guests at a mutual friends party Willekin admitted firing after Weiland touched him from behind and said there was no ill will before the shooting He is held on murder charges for a hearing tomorrow
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Baltimore, Md
William Willekin
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Emil Weiland
Willekin
Weiland
Family of Six Burned in Rancho House Fire Near Sacramento
A ranch house near Sacramento burned in the early hours, killing six members of the Iwaoka family including Mr. and Mrs. K Iwaoka and their four children all under seven. The sheriff said the fire, likely started in the kitchen, occurred while the family slept on a farm where the parents worked.
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Sacramento
Cal
K. Iwaoka
Remus Model Inmate at Lima State Hospital
George Remus, acquitted in Cincinnati of his wife Imogene's murder, is described by Lima State Hospital for the Insane superintendent as a model inmate. He seeks privacy, reads Sunday papers, joins the choir, and attends chapel while under mental strain. Reverend E Bruce Jacobs preached on life’s unknown future.
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Lima
W. H- Vorbau
Lima State Hospital
George Remus
Cincinnati
Imogene
Remus
Vorbau
E. Bruce Jacobs
Girl kills man to save mother in Pittsburgh area
Olga Pawliskak, seventeen, is jailed in Sewickley after allegedly shooting Nicholas Anderson, 35, who tried to abduct her mother. Her brother and companion reportedly witnessed the event, with details tying the pistol to Mike Popowich. The case follows multiple local robberies and street crimes reported nearby.
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Pittsburgh
Sewickley
Olga Pawliskak
Fair Oaks
Allegheny County
Nicholas Anderson
Mike Poppowich
Miss Pawliskak
Poppowich
John Pawliskak
Anderson
Pawliskak
Ambridge
Woman scorned triggers theater hold up bloodbath in Chicago
In Chicago on January 8 a betrayed lover tipped off a plot to rob theater manager E S Halquist. Detectives concealed around the West Side venue opened fire, killing two attackers identified as John Bunk alias Jack Rabbit and Punk. A third man escaped after a machine gun ambush.
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Chicago
West Side
John Bunk
Jack Rabbit
Pontiac
Mich
States
Sergt
Andrew Barry
Halquist
Barry
Aids
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Sandino
Marine Afing
Managua
Nicaragua
Augustino Sandino
Republic of Nicaragua
Nicarag Suan
Nuevo Segovia
Sandinio
Republic of Nicarateura
San Albino
Charles’ Butters
Reading
Mr. Butters
Henryl. Stimson
Coolidge
Soe Sandino
Jose Moncada
Liberal Party
Sanding
Moncada
Quilali
Honduras
Coco River
Royal Cortisser
Rembrandt
Hals
Bol
Hobbema
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joker
Lindbergh
Sing Sing Lavatory
Duto
J. H. Wittenborg
Good Samaritan Hospital
ORY
RUM
Laguardia
New York Prohibition Unit
Gressman
Tho
Thame
Ward
Charles A. Magnet
Paddock Road
Magnet
Yarmouth Avenue
Ringhand and
Stout
Seventh District
Peter Schnur
Vine Street
Eleanor Finch
Withamsville
Cross Lane
Kemper Lane
John Leonard
Harvey Avenue
Michigan Avenue
Edwards Road
Edward Hamilton
Western Avenue
Hamilton
Catherine Strotmeyer
Church Street
Henry Stamp
East McMicken Avenue
Stamp
William Neale
Carll Street
Neale
Harrison and
Tremont Street
James Gardner
Richmond Street
Baymiller and
Linn Streets
Queen City
Beekman Avenues
Cumminsville
Elmore Avenue
Kohler
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