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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
4
A brief newspaper copyright notice from July 8 1925 states The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of all dispatches and local news. It reserves all rights to special dispatches. The price is two cents for daily and seven cents for Sunday editions.
Treasury officials press a line against using tax funds for educational lectures on prohibition arguing law enforcement must be secular and funded by private sources. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes resists. debate centers on morality versus legal constraint and public funding.
The piece argues the Scopes trial centers on state authority over education rather than federal jurisdiction. It notes the immediate issue is a violated state law and questions its Constitutional relation to state liberties. It suggests future debates may test federal intervention versus state sovereignty.
The piece applauds Judge William Lueders for opposing a law granting a single judge broad power to censor Sunday amusements. It argues such discretion is absurd and infringes on judiciary and public rights, noting differing county practices while urging enforcement of existing law.
The poem argues for humane hunting standards and questions celebrating animal deaths. It contrasts gentler, modern hunters with brutal methods and imagines the moral implications of killing. A separate item notes a Maine tax roll theft likely aimed at shaping public sentiment, followed by a humorous note about a will and another about the Dawes plan’s cost.
Dr Reed explains that many nervous symptoms in children originate in chronic convulsive toxemia tied to stomach and intestinal issues. Diagnosis relies on abdominal examination and X ray studies to reveal displacement and guiding treatment to correct the underlying digestive condition. Tomorrow: Have you Nervous Dyspepsia.
New York life notes the Cafe de la Paix closure after an exclusive debut and the public favoring casual dress among visitors. The piece contrasts high society dining diktats with a mix of anecdotes about fashion, urban geography, and a shop selling backdated Newark and Brooklyn newspaper issues.
Three hundred Cincinnati residents welcomed Peoria business leaders hosted by M. E. Ingalls to promote regional rail traffic. Mayor Johnston gave the address. L. D. Line sued Postmaster Wahle over letter delays. Squire Fred Johnson ordered the mail brought to court. Wahle faced contempt risks. Key estate discussed obtaining English-held property. Bantlin donated two grizzly bears to the Zoo. A long donor bird and beast list appeared. Bridget Stringer burned to death in a coal oil accident. Weather rain and cloudy with 71 84 degrees.
From the files of The Commercial twenty years ago in Cincinnati: a city improvement resolu tion condemning the canal as a disgrace. J J Hooker contested points at the meeting. The Muskimgum Valley Steel Co of Zanesville was acquired by American Rolling Mills Co of Middletown with Cincinnati interests. Mrs Ella F Gansel buried beside her husband who died defending her from a tailor. School salary increases for 800 teachers. German Ministers Association revival at Inwood Park. Chief Millikin orders a new gold medal for best revolver shot. Judge Bramwell bruised boarding a moving train near Wyoming. Weather cloudy 67 to 88.
A Cincinnati reader questions the authority of the Anti-Saloon League and bans on alcohol, arguing elected officials should govern without interference. The letter claims prohibition harms morale, boosts bootleggers, andSuggests repeal is inevitable as revenue and enforcement costs rise. It cites personal experience as a polling clerk and notes widespread voter apathy.
Canton is cited in dispatches from the Far East as a chief camp of Chinese radicals, in the principal city of Southern China, the region that spawned the Tai Pi rebellion and one of the bloodiest wars of recent times.
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment plans a campaign in Cleveland Cincinnati and Columbus to back wet candidates for Congress. W. H. Slayton of Baltimore heads the drive aiming to repeal or modify the Volstead Act with a wine and beer amendment. The group targets Ohio’s 22 districts where dry incumbents may be defeated in primaries or the general election.
A set of trivia questions from a 1925 newspaper asks about medieval battles U.S. constitutional amendments Cape Verde language origins electrocution invention geography of Lapland Crimean Sea melting point of copper and Russia Siberia mountains. It also restates yesterday's quiz with mythic and historical facts and notes Troy Trotsky Trotsky alias Liebe Braunstein.
In Back of Peekskill, the article lyrically observes damselflies and dragonflies among blue berries and ferns, comparing their small aerial beauty to fairies. It links metamorphosis from aquatic larvae to enlightenment, framing natural life as a hopeful prophecy for the human soul.
Paris July 7 French Foreign Minister Briand pushed through the Chamber of Deputies two Washington Conference treaties affecting China. Ratified by a show of hands they await the Senate. One treaty covers China’s rights and interests. the other the Chinese customs tariff. Briand said ratification would help China’s integrity and social conditions and pave a conference urged by the United States.
Protests filed with the Ohio Public Utilities Commission challenge a $250 annual license for Indiana and Kentucky trucks operating in Ohio. The 1928 law, dormant until a recent appropriations release, has led to arrests and fines for noncompliance. Cincinnati business groups fear loss of traffic to Louisville and Indianapolis and seek an injunction. Samuel Herndon and Walter Schmitt dispute constitutionality and federal interstate traffic limits.
A large fire in Glasgow destroyed Kelvin Hall and the Corporations Exhibition Building covering acres. The Kelvin Cove United Free Church, a miniature Rheims Cathedral replica, burned near the starting site. Two towers collapsed and the roof caved in as six fires raged, while nearby art galleries were saved by wind.
Senator Curtis of Kansas Republican leader says talk of a second term for President Coolidge is too premature. He arrived for a brief visit and planned to see Coolidge. he notes a Republican Senatorial Committee reorganization in 1926 but declares it is too early for politics or any term talk.
An English girl Pauline Stanbury married Norman B. Woolworth of New York at St. Margaret's Westminster drawing large crowds. The ceremony followed trans Atlantic customs and rehearsals unusual for England with Yale chums as groomsmen and even a Los Angeles guest. About five hundred guests attended the wedding with mounting police maintaining crowd control.
In Racine Wisconsin stockholders unanimously approved a reorganization plan for the J J Case Plow Works. The firm will reorganize as J I Case Plow Works Inc and take over assets. Creditors receive about 56 percent of claims and preferred stockholders get one share of B stock per preferred share. Common stockholders receive one B stock for twenty common shares.
James Duncan, longtime AFL official, travels to Cincinnati to mediate between railway clerks and express drivers and chauffeurs. A 9 o'clock meeting at the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks office on Court and Vine streets aims to resolve jurisdictional friction over union membership in the rail express sector.
Charles Holman resigned today as president of the Laclede Gas Light Camp of St. Louis to assume the presidency of the Georgian Manganese Corporation of New York. The Thorporation was organized to take over the contract with A Harriman Co and Russian Soviet government to operate private mine owners.
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