The Commercial Tribune Front Matter Notes
Published in Cincinnati in 1928, the Commercial Tribune lists its publisher Harry W. Brown and office locations. It notes sales points in New York City at Schultz's News Stand and Grand Central Station and at Hotaling's News Stand near The Times Building. The paper references the Associated Press and price details for daily and Sunday editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune Publishing Company
Commercial Square
Fifth
Broadway
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry W. Brown
Commercial Tribune
New York City
Schultz
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Grand Central Station
Hotaling
Times
Forty-third
Associated Press
Aviation committee details Ohio plan for growth and licenses
Cincinnati hosts five members of the Ohio General Assembly aviation committee who discuss plans for a State Department of Aviation licensing pilots and regulating air rights. They favor airport land purchase by county officials, while stressing growth without hampering progress and noting connections to automobile licensing needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio General Assembly
Cincinnati
Lunken
Chamber of Commerce
David 5. Ingalls
Cleveland
State Department of Aviation
Record Flight Marks Trans Ocean Achievement and City Beautification
The Southern Cross flight from Hawaii to Suva set a 34 hour 33 minute trans ocean record with 3138 miles, guided by Kingsford Smith Ulm Lyon and Warner. Separately Chicago considers a $5000 riverfront beautification appropriation after citing Cleveland as a model for waterfront improvements along the Ohio River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Hawaii
Suva
Kingsford-Smith
Charles Ulm
Seasongood
Chicago
Cleveland
Kentucky
Ohio
City Planning Commission
Queen City
Twenty Years Ago in Cincinnati Commencement Night Highlights
Twenty years ago in Cincinnati high schools held a grand commencement at Music Hall with Hughes Woodward and Walnut Hills earning diplomas. Class orators were praised while Tanford Taft and Harmon were noted for future promise. The report also cites laws, a Scottish Rite Cathedral gathering, and social and labor tensions amid a pleasant 62 to 82 degree day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Music Hall
Hughes
Woodward
Walnut Hills
William M. Harmon
C. L. Feinberg
William Wabnitz
A. D.D. Shockley
Union Board
Fountain ‘Square Esplanade
Cincinnati Law School
Scottish Rite Cathedral
Dean Rogers
William H. Taft
Judson Harmon
Dabney
Lawrence Maxwell
Queen City Club
Harmon
Dean Ames
Harvard
Dean Kirchwey
Columbia
Judge Shauck
William Worthington
J. Chandler Harper
Fifty Years Ago in Cincinnati June 6 1878
Commencement day at Farmers College College Hill with decorous celebration. Salutatory by Nettie Harris and pieces by Dudley Emerson Carrie Blanchard Jennie Kennedy William Wilder Ida Wilder valedictorian. Rev Dr Smith installed as president and hopes to restore ante bellum prestige. Alumni met including Bishop Walden and Murat Halstead. H S Young to preside next year. Weather pleasant 54 to 74 deg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers College
College Hill
Nettie Harris
Dudley Emerson
Carrie D. Blanchard
Jennie Kennedy
William H. Wilder
Ida B. Wilder
Dr. Smith
J. W. Walden
Murat Halstead
H. S. Young
How To Be Good Juryman
A satirical verse advises aspiring jurors to avoid reading news or forming opinions. It cautions against discussing crimes, warns that belief or rumor disqualifies a juror, and urges dullness and silence to maintain eligibility in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lad
Leopold Zimmerman Remains Resolute After Debt Repayment Milestone
Leopold Zimmerman, age seventy five, sits in his Lower Broadway office five years after a collapse left him bankrupt with debts in the millions. He has paid back 40 percent of his obligations and received a $1,200,000 damages award from the Mixed Claims Commission to aid repayment. Zimmerman credits loyalty of customers and health as keys to his comeback, despite wartime losses to Zimmerman & Forshay and lengthy bankruptcy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leopold Zimmerman
Lower Broadway
Mixed Claims Commission
Zimmerman & Forshay
House of
Zimmerman
Broadway
Germany
Austria
Hungary
France
Lighting for close work and its effect on fatigue
Research by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board and the Illumination Committee shows that lighting type affects fatigue in close work. Compositors tested under direct, semi indirect, semi direct combined, and purely indirect lighting revealed best results with a well lit room using both direct or indirect light plus a local bench light at about twenty foot candles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Fatigue Research Board
Illumination Committee
Medical Research Council of Great Britain
King Features Syndicate
Folies Bergere ideas offer cheap, flashy revue bits
A Paris letter urges Jake Lee Flo Earl and Georgie to borrow or adapt the latest Folies Bergere acts for next fall. It describes a soap bubble routine with inflatable balloons and a multilingual eternal triangle staged in five languages, plus a dramatic whippet race on treadmills as a potential Broadway novelty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Jake
Lee
Flo
Earl
Georgie
Gal
Winter Garden
New Amsterdam
New York
Jimmy Walker
Klaw & Erlanger
Ben Hur
Neil Burgess
Burton Holmes
New ‘York World ‘News Service
New York World) Press Publishing Co
Words of Wise Men Sayings Echo on Virtue and Timing
A compact collection highlights contrasts between patience and action with quotes from Spurgeon Gladstone La Rochefoucauld. The lines urge virtue in both fortune and delay and frame late efforts as superior to none.
Cincinnati's Party Line A Ghost in Dr Reed's House
A Cincinnati tale recounts a ghost haunting Dr Ralph Reed's bedroom taps then banished after a bust was moved. The piece also notes university chemistry chatter about salts and strychnine, a Southern-tinged commercial artist exiled by the Klan, Margaretta Tuttle on Gossip, and a West Fifth street church yard now hosting a street carnival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Reed
Woman's Press Club
Margaretta Tuttle
West Fifth Street
Lotto
Mayo criticizes so called mind experts at psychiatry meeting
Dr W J Mayo, Rochester surgeon, told the American Psychiatric Association convention that self styled mental experts testifying to influence juries undermine psychiatry. He cited the Hickman California and Remus Cincinnati cases as abuses and urged court appointed psychiatrists conduct unbiased examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
California
George Remus
Cincinnati
Mayo
Rollman's Optometrist to Face State Board
Charges filed with the Ohio State Optometric Association allege Oscar Schuessler of Rollman Company provided a misrepresented eye exam and substandard frames while soliciting a $5 package. The Enforcement Committee claims he billed $15 for higher quality materials and the State Board will hear the case in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board
Columbus
Optical firm executives face state board charges in Columbus
Henry Silverman and Vernon E. Rust of the Stanley Optical Company will be tried before the State Board at Columbus today on alleged irregularities in conducting optical businesses. Similar charges were previously raised against them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ment Committee
Henry Silverman
Vernon E. Rust
Stanley Optical Company
Columbus
Flood Threat Looms Over Southeastern Louisiana Area
Lowland residents in Southeastern Louisiana, Central and Southern Mississippi and Southern Alabama brace for floods as 48 hours of heavy rain push rivers and creeks over banks. Rail and road transport disrupted. some railroad service halted. communications severed in portions of the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Fearful Cincinnati Man Ended Life in River
Joseph Korn a 46 year old salesman from 1211 Gilsey avenue Cincinnati may have taken his own life in the Ohio River near Louisville. A letter to his wife stated intent and a coat and hat were found on the river bank with a note to notify Mrs Korn. Korn had been in poor health and left for a business trip to Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Korn
Gilsey Avenue
Ohio River
Louisville
Kentucky
George Kraus
Sugar Grove
Ind
University of Cincinnati Bird Course Offered This Summer
Dr. Harris M. Benedict leads the annual bird studies course as part of the university summer school, earning two university credits. He warns that many bird eggs and young face numerous dangers and urges public understanding of birds’ value to the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris M. Benedict
University of Cincinnati
Benedict
Civic Theater closes season with two one act plays
The Cincinnati Civic Theater presented Madame Butterfly and The Man of Destiny at the Wise Center directed by Benjamin Kauser. Cast included Gertrude Dalton Thorpe Ruth Kingsbury Elmer Baughman Mary Atkins Robert Gaf and others. Performances repeat tonight before Kauser departs for New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Civic Theater
Wise Center
David Belasco
John Luther Long
George Bernard Shaw
Benjamin Kauser
Civic Theater Group
Schuster-Martin
Gertrude Dalton Thorpe Suzuki
Mme
Yamadori
New York
Elmer Baughman
Norma Gerdsen
Lis
Ruth Kingsbury
Nakodo
Richard Waelchli
Sharpless
Robert Gaf
Kate Pinkerton
Pinkerton
Mary Atkins
Lient
Carl Steinbecker
Destiny
Walter Maher
Robert
Goff
Scarborough Napoleon
Giusseppe
Turner Admits Photo Copies Saving County Office Costs
Robert Heuck, County Recorder, announced that photostatic copies of plats and maps may be recorded after Attorney General Turner ruled they are legal records. The decision, urged by Charles Taf Jr., could save $1,500 to $2,000 yearly, amid prior 1922 guidance and bills that failed to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Heuck
Turner
Charles P. Taf* Jr
Heuck
Bureau of Municipal Research
John G. Price
Ohio
General Assembly
House
Senate
Negro shooter calls police after firing in street
James Rodgers 1214 Broadway fired a revolver several times into the air on New Street and Broadway then reported a town shooting. Lieut Dooley dispatched officers Ross and Sageman who found Rodgers alone with a smoking gun. He faces disorderly conduct charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rodgers
Broadway
George Dooley
Second District Police
New Street
Ross and
Sageman
Rogers
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Mark Brown
Clovernook School For the
Markbreit
Commercial
W. H. Taft
Harry C. Coe
Yale
Taft
Woodward High School
Mr. Coe
Chickering Institute
Natural History Society
Wetherby
Cincinnati Varsity
J. W. Hall, Jr
Warder
S. A. Miller
Society
Electrical Society
Western Union
Chambers
Clark
Cincinnati University
Lord
A. Howard Hinkle
Henry D. Sorge
W. B. Trott
Henry G. Andre
James J. Montague
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Tae Pe
Gotham Daze
William R. Lipman
Jean C. E. Simon
de Grasse
North Atlantic
Havre
Grand Banks
Newfoundland
Suffern
New York World News Service
New York World
Charles A. L. Reed
American Medical Association
DR. Reed
Neal O’hara
Messrs. Shubert
Ziegfeld
Carroll and White
Spurgeon
Gladstone
Maurice Ketten
By PrEss Publishing CO
Frank Chandler
Remus
Rollman’s Optometrist
River
U. OF C
Civic Theater
Negro
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