Fernbank Rail Extension Passes Amid City Debate
Fernbank and nearby river communities celebrate an unofficial City Council vote approving a Cincinnati Street Railway Company rail extension. The plan, valued around 300000, would run from Anderson’s Ferry to Fernbank, delivering cheaper transport for suburbs and breaking party lines in a long running dispute.
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Kernbank
Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Cincinnati
Leasongood
Fred Schneller
Martin Daly
W. Meredith Yeatman
Edward J. Dixon
Messrs. Schneller
Daly
Yeatman
Dixon
Fernbank Committee
Edgar Dow Gilman
Public Utilities
Stanley Struble
Gilman
Anderson's Ferry
Street Rail Way
Doctor predicts longer life might be achieved soon
Dr Morris Fishbein secretary of the American Medical Association and editor of Hygeia told the Portland convention that prolonged life remains elusive despite advances. He warned that dead tissue cannot be revived and that no potion can restore life once cells have decayed.
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Portland
Ore
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Fishbein
Hygeia
Association
Dr. Fishbein
Gruen appeals to rewite watch tariff plan
George J. Gruen of Cincinnati representing the Watchmakers Guild told the Senate Finance Subcommittee a compromise proposal would keep the 1922 base rate while adding per jewel duties and maintain the 45 percent ad valorem duty on repair parts. He helped unite importers and domestic manufacturers in support, while foreign governments plan further protests to the tariff bill.
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Washington
George J. Gruen
Cincinnati
Watchmakers’ Guild
Senate
Gruen
Senate Finance Committee
Blonde held with boyfriend in Covington Kroger robberies
A blonde woman and her male companion were captured by traffic officer Sid Berte in Covington after robbing three Kroger stores in rapid succession. The pair, named Alma Williams 20 Indianapolis and Carl Young 23 Paint Creek W Va, are suspected as the frequent Kroger bandits. Police say nearly eighty store raids in Covington since January first. The arrest followed a chase ending near Twelfth Hofman streets.
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Sid Berte
Kroger
Alma Williams
Indianapolis
Ind
Carl Young
Paint Creek
W. Va
Carl Hoffman
Center Street
Ninth
Philadelphia
Pike
Main Streets
Berte
Twelfth
Hofman
Hoffman
Willys-Overland Sale Talks Surface In Wall Street
Negotiations are under way for the purchase of John North Willys personal holdings in Willys-Overland Inc. Eletric Auto-Lite President Miniger and Toledo banker Jones are named as principals. Willys may divest to become Ambassador to France, succeeding Myron Herrick.
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New York
John North Willys
Willys-Overlaid, Inc
Wall Street
Willys
Canandaigua
N. Y
Willys-Overland
Elmira
Elmira Arms Company
Overland Automobile Company
Indianapolis
Pope Toledo
Canoe Race Tragedy Claims Four Lives in Ohio Waters
Four canoeists perish in swollen rivers district as two Ohio brothers drown opposite Coney Island and a German student dies in the Little Miami near West Carrollton. Dayton participants William Faber and partner Gerald Van Pelt were swept after their dam spillway hit a submerged log. The tragedy follows other drownings along the Ohio and Big Miami rivers during a nonstop race from Dayton to Louisville.
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Dayton
Ohio
Bittle
Big Miami
Coney Island
Minx Tower
Carrollton, O
The
Commercial Tribune
Miami
Ohio River
William Faber
South
Philadelphia Street
Stivers High ‘School
Conservancy District
Miami River
West Carrollton
Gerald van Pelt
Colorado Avenue
van Pelt
Faber
Butler County
Island Park
Joseph Cardosi
Herman Avenue
Malcolm Lowe
South Hedges Street
Third Street
Paroled boy murderer returns to parents care in Kentucky
In Frankfort Kentucky the Kentucky Children's Bureau paroled Carl 6 into the custody of Mr and Mrs John Mahan after he shot and killed playmate Cecil Vanhouse 8 last May The hearing drew cheering crowds at the Capitol and followed a manslaughter conviction with a fifteen year reform school sentence an appeal and a writ of prohibition delaying the sentence
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Commercial Tribune
Frankfort
Kentucky Children’s Bureau Today
John Mahan
Carl
Cecil Vanhouse
Capitol Building
Paintsville
John W. Butcher
Johnson County
Reform School
James F. Bailey
Endurance Flight Record Then and Now Angeleno Sets New World Mark
Two aviators Mendell and Reinhart piloting the Angeleno single motored biplane set a new world endurance record near Culver City California by flying 183 hours or more. They refueled and planned to stay aloft at least 200 hours while spirits remained high and crowds cheered.
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Cal
L. W. Mendell
R. B. Reinhart
Pacific Coast
Cleveland
Roy L. Mitchell
Byron K. Newcomb
Mendell
Reinhart
Postal deficit looms at eighty five million yearly
Washington July 9 reports warn of an average annual postal deficit of 85 million dollars through 1935. President Hoover orders a survey of the Post Office to seek economies while restructurings shift divisions among the top Post Office officials and plan new buildings push the total unfunded gap higher.
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Washington
Post Office
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Hoover
Frederic Tilton
Submarine H-47 Sinks After Collision Off Pembroke
Navy divers race to save 21 crew aboard the H-47 after it collided with L-12 and sank 20 miles west of Fishguard. Twenty four are listed missing including 21 on H-47 and one on L-12, with one L-12 sailor dead. Admiralty directs salvage from Pembroke docks under Rear Admiral Grace as ships gather.
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Wales
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H. E. Grace
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Admiralty
Grand Naval
Torquay
Yancey and Williams Forced Down En Route to Rome
Roger Q. Williams and Capt. Lewis Yancey, after a 3400 mile trans Atlantic trek from Old Orchard, were forced to land near Santander Spain due to gasoline exhaustion amid head winds. They described heavy fog and one storm, saying they flew about 31 1/2 hours and consumed 445 gallons before landing at 9:30 p.m. local time. They planned to resume toward Rome the next morning aboard Pathfinder.
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Roger Q. Williams
Lewis Yancey
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Associated Press
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Cape Ortegal
Cincinnati Critics Laud Stuart Walker and Urge Local Theater Revival
Noted critic Clayton Hamilton said Cincinnati has declined in serious drama except for Stuart Walker's productions. He urged community action to finance and establish local theaters to attract actors, directors, and playwrights, warning that without effort the American drama could be confined to New York.
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Stuart Walker
Clayton Hamilton
American Dramatic Critics
Hotel Linton
Stuart Walter, Incorporated
Hamilton
Erlanger Theater
New York
Louisville
St. Louis
Indianapolis
New Money Ready for Public in Cincinnati Banks
Banks will issue the new smaller federal currency today replacing the yellowback notes. The 6 5-16 by 2 11-16 inch bills feature silk fiber and durable paper, set to cut material and distribution costs. About 3.92 billion notes sent to Federal Reserve banks. some may become souvenirs.
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Cincinnati
Treasury Department
United States
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Wealthy Wife Slayer Receives Death Penalty
Rafe F. King, 37, scion of a Shelby, North Carolina, family, was convicted of murdering his wife Fay E. Wilson King by a Chester County jury. The verdict carries the death penalty automatically under state law.
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S. C
Rafe F. King
Shelby
N.C
Fay E. Wilson King
Chester County Criminal Court
Ring paints inside lives of Cincinnatians as artist
Artist George Ring recalls witnessing hundreds of operations while sketching citizens opened to view. He suggests writing a book on Cincinnati secrets, viewing surgical scenes as landscapes and stressing artistic capture over medical detail. He cites Dr. William Schneider as the first case recorded in colored drawing.
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George Ring
Isaac H. Schwartz
Joan Lowell
Trader Horn
Mr. Ring
William Schneider
Newport
Secret police bureau formed in New York Police Department
Police Commissioner Whalen creates a secret service bureau in the detective division with fifty men. They will be unnamed, numbered, and operate without credentials or arrests. Their work resembles undercover units, with reports sent by telephone or letter to a secretly identified head.
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New York
Secret Service Bureau
Police Department
Whalen
Secret Police
United States Secret Service
Scotland Yard
No Money for Milk Drives Mother to Burn Baby
Mrs. Josephine Valenti, 19, confessed setting fire to a carriage where her eight month old Dom inick lay asleep, killing the child. Police said she burned to ease the burden of not affording nursery care while she worked. She is held on a murder charge.
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Los Angeles
Josephine Valenti
Dominick
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