14 Jul 1926
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1926
Page
1
Refugees endure harsh conditions as they return to ruined homes in a shattered town. The report notes a family’s resilience amid devastation, describing empty streets and damaged shelters while highlighting the ongoing refugee struggle.
Allan Reagan details a press tour into the Lake Denmark naval ammunition depot ruins after a deadly explosion. Reporters, guards, and officers traveled by flat cars to witness scorched earth craters, remaining magazines, and charred landscape, with warnings of danger and a cat rescued from the ruins.
Lincoln J. Carter, 61, noted author and producer of popular melodramas, died at his Elkhart River home near Goshen Indiana after months of illness from Bright's disease. Funeral services will be held on.
One man was killed and ten injured in a series of street car and automobile crashes yesterday. William Meyer from East Third Street died at General Hospital from injuries after being struck on Reading Road near Clinton Spring Avenues.
The City Park Board plans to discuss selling Workhouse and House of Refuge properties on Colerain Avenue to Cincinnati Baseball Club for a National League ballpark. A Saturday meeting at City Hall will set a price if the council agrees to share sale profits and use proceeds for play places and a central municipal stadium site.
Josiah Kirby, former president of the 30 million dollar Cleveland Discount Company, is arrested by two U S Deputy Marshals on arrival from Berkeley to surrender to federal authorities. He faces transport to Atlanta penitentiary where he was sentenced for mail fraud and jury fixing. He will be jailed tonight.
The Bank of Dade City in Florida failed to open as directors ordered closure due to cash reserves below legal requirements. The bank remained solvent and all depositors who joined the run were paid in full after the decision made last night following a run yesterday.
In New York a delay in firing a presidential salute to Haiti's President Louis Borne led to Col. Watson being court martialed for neglect of duty. Gen. Summerall ordered the trial. Watson accepted responsibility for the tardy salute fired fifteen minutes late after attention was drawn to the omission.
President Coolidge has set politics aside during his vacation at White Lake and will only be disturbed by urgent business. He plans no active participation in Republican primaries and expects fewer visitors than last summer. Gov. Smith and Mrs Smith may attend a social luncheon, while leaders’ visits depend on convenience.
Maj. Gen. Littleton T. Waller United States Marine Corps retired died at Creston Hotel Atlantic City at 2 am after a pneumonia illness begun ten days earlier He was in his seventieth year and had a long combat record including service in Haiti Philippines and China earning the nicknames Old Fire-Eater and Old Pepper Box He was born September 2 1856 in Virginia and rose to major general in 1918 with a noted career in the Marines
A young woman about 25 with dark hair and brown eyes was found dead and dismembered near Walk Hill Street between Calvary and Mt Hope Cemeteries in Mattapan. Police suspect illegal surgery as the cause while a middle aged man in a car was sighted by witnesses near the area.
Theodore Graeber of Concordia Seminary told 5 000 delegates at the Lutheran Walther League convention in Baltimore that national prohibition blue laws anti tobacco laws and other reform measures are hostile to state and religious interests. He condemned the use of police power in enforcing Christian citizenship.
Rescue teams comb wooded hills searching for survivors after blasts at the shell-opept arsenal ruins. Officials say many soldiers sailors and marines are missing as dazed and half starved victims are located in the wreckage.
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