The Commercial Tribune June 15 1929 Front Page Note
The Commercial Tribune announces its Cincinnati headquarters and New York distribution points. The paper notes Associated Press rights and publishes Saturday June 15 1929 with daily and Sunday price information.
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Commercial Tribune
New York City
Schultz
Sixth Avenue
Forty-Second Street
Grand Central Station
Hotaling
Times
Forty-third and Broadway
Associated Press
Newport Mayor Alleges Police Graft In City
Mayor Fred L. McLane of Newport accuses parts of the Newport Police force of graft and corruption. The charge, not named, prompts calls for a public, impartial investigation into the city’s crime control and its reputation as a haven for vice, while noting long-standing efforts at cleanups amid widespread public concern.
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Fred L. McLane
Cincinnati
Newport Police Department
McLane
Newport
Kentucky
Ex-King Amanullah and Queen Souriya Planned Paris Visit
Paris prepares a residence on Avenue Montaigne for Amanullah and Queen Souriya with his brother Inayatullah and family. The former Afghan rulers may stay in Europe if a forthcoming tribal conference decides the throne. Amanullah seeks Western life but faces strong opposition from the clergy and tribes.
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Paris
Amanullah
Souriya
Avenue Montaigne
Italian Riviera
Bordighera
Rapallo
Inayatullah
Europe
Nadir Khan
Bombay
Bacha-Saquo
Kabul
Afghanistan
India
Lord Irwin
Queen Souriya
Golf as sole sorrow haunts Adolph Lewisohn in retirement
A reflective poem where Adolph Lewisohn laments golf as his only sorrow. He confesses repeated attempts to master the game, endless practice, and lasting discouragement, yet finds no true consolation beyond his enduring frustration with putts and drives.
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Adolph Lewisohn
New Theater in New York To Be Torn Down
The New Theater in New York is slated for demolition with costs cited near two million dollars, nearly the price of a contemporary musical comedy production.
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New York
New York welcomes and hails summer in whole city
New York rejects Mr. Owen D Young with a radio reply and offers a breezy summer welcome plan. Ford taxis spark debate as buses flood Times Square while traffic cops crack down. Roller skating races draw crowds at Madison Square Garden with a $24,600 purse. Charles Levine fined for speeding, Will Morrissey’s new revue opens, and orange juice fuels Broadway crowds as heat bites the city.
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Owen D. Young
Young
Gothamtown
Mr. Young
Broadway
Ford Company
Ford
Madison Square Garden
Roland Cioni
Cioni
Garden
Romanian proposal for Greenland weather station forecast study
The Arctic Weather Bureau reports a Romanian scientist proposes a weather observation station on Greenland to improve storm forecasts. It would use balloons and radio equipment to share forecasts globally, noting Greenland hosts particularly destructive storms and glacial anticyclones reaching speeds of 140 miles an hour.
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Arctic Weather Bureau
Greenland
Controversy Over Commencement References and City Measures
June 15 1909 reports Rabbi Gotthard Deutsch and pastors clashing over religious references in commencements. Board of Education evasive amid other issues. City adopts 8 mph inner and 15 mph outer speed limits to curb accidents. Ohio Mechanics Institute names P G Marsh as president. Mrs Emery gifts 500000. Daylight saving support grows as D A R and schools honor Flag Day with Dudley Rhodes and Vice Mayor Galvin speaking.
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Gotthard Deutsch
Hebrew Union College
Board of Education
Ohio Mechanics Institute
P. G. Marsh
Fifty Years Ago in Cincinnati June 15 1879 items
Flurry in city Police Department with schemes to overhaul leadership, Capt. Thomas Snellaker named as Chief amid public pushback. Aleck Sands touted as new police power. Honest Money League forms to counter political tricks, with William H. Davis as president and several aides named. Cincinnati Music Center gains notice as National Music Teachers Association selects city for annual convention. John Mickleborough declines Farmers College presidency. North American Saengerbund thanks Cincinnati and selects Chicago for next Saengerfest. Reuben Springer praised for promoting musical culture. Reds defeated by Providence for the third straight time, 4 to 3. Weather Clear, 68 to 82 deg.
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Columbus
Thomas Snellaker
Aleck Sands
Saengerbund
Cincinnati
Chicago
Reuben Springer
Embassies Go Dry Diplomacy Goes to Washington
A World News Service spoof notes embassies going dry in Washington to prove diplomats are ordinary, with mock cables from Prime Ministers and Ambassadors complaining of restrictions, hotelier appetites, and saloon culture altering diplomatic life in 1929.
Silkworms Show Different Feeding Habits
Wild silkworms hatch and climb upward seeking leaves while domestic silkworms just wave their heads and wait to be fed, according to Science.
Young Amerryca submissions seek clever young writers
Day by day column invites under twenty to submit original material for publication. Writer’s name may be withheld on request and addressed to Young Amerryca care Commercial Tribune Cincinnati Ohio.
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Care Commercial Tribune
Cuinvinnati
Honest Boy Breaks Silence On A Grafter Father
An 18 year old writer reveals his father is a petty grafter linked to city politicians and law violators. He expresses love for his father but questions how parents’ actions affect sons and urges honest talks over money earned by ill means.
Selma Man Says Dollar Hard to Spend as Prices Rise
A Selma Alabama writer identified as H J notes in a letter that the average dollar is exhausted before use, reflecting growing consumer strain as spending becomes tougher amid rising costs.
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H. J
Selma
Ala
Man Suffers Tragic Demise After Invention Mockery
A man from Covington Kentucky died after his attempt at venting a summer skirt failed to protect him from the heat. The note by H Herzog claims the deceased deserved the outcome.
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H. Herzog
Covington, Ky
Miss Georgiana J Probes Storm Link To Broad Cast Joke
Miss Georgiana J. notes a violent storm followed Thursday evening’s broadcast and asks if the protest of the elements could be connected to a previously told non-Scotch joke. She seeks clarification on any possible link.
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Georgiana J
Banks Aid Temple Fund in Cincinnati Campaign
Contributions of 1000 dollars each from the Fifth Third Union Trust Company and the Central Trust Company were reported at a Special Gifts Committee meeting for the Masonic Temple debt retirement drive. General Chairman Charles W. Dupuis said more Cincinnati banks may contribute due to the civic appeal.
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Fifth Third Union Trust Company
The
Central Trust Company
Masonic Temple
Charles W. Dupuis
Cincinnati
Lightkeeper to Quit Cedar Point Post After Thirty Six Years
Frank Ritter, 65, who has tended the Cedar Point lighthouse for more than thirty six years, plans to retire July 1. A federal inspector is due to select his successor in the near future.
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Sandusky
Frank Ritter
Cedar Point
Ditch cavein at airport claims life in Cleveland
A twelve foot ditch at the Municipal Airport collapsed killing James Mahler aged 38 and injuring Monhett In stero 39 and I A Attla. Mahler was buried under dirt and workers required about an hour to recover his body.
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Cleveland
James Mahler
Monhett Instero
I. A. Attla
Mahler
Police Seek Three Missing Cincinnatians
Detectives search for Theodore R. Jackson 23 of 829 West Liberty Street missing since Wednesday after a fight with four men. Carl Corry seeks Pauline Corry 24 of 2136 Deerfield Place missing since Thursday. Thomas McDryer 19 of 1216 East Front Street missing since Wednesday with father Moses McDryer requesting aid.
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Theodore R. Jackson
West Liberty Street
Jackson
Carl Corry
Deerfield Place
Pauline Corry
Thomas McDryer
East Front Street
Moses McDryer
Fat Wrassman Funeral Held After Opera Place Shooting
Funeral services for George Fat Wrassman 38 were conducted at his home on Evanston Avenue with burial at Spring Grove Cemetery. Two auto loads of floral tributes followed the hearse as the widow and nine year old son rode in one of three cars for mourners. A two year old daughter was left at home.
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George
Wrassman
Evanston Avenue
Opera Place
Schaefer
Spring Grove
City of Cleveland Wins Gas Rate Appeal Case
The Ohio Court of Appeals denied East Ohio Gas the right to shut off service to 200,000 Cleveland customers without PUC consent. It grants Cleveland a permanent injunction blocking discontinuation and overruns a lower court ruling supporting a shutdown over lower rates. An appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court is anticipated, possibly reaching the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Court of Appeals
East Ohio Gas Company
State Public Utilities Commission
Common Pleas
J. D. Barnes
Champion Spark Plug Chief F B Caswell Dies
F B Caswell, vice president and sales director of Champion Spark Plug Company, collapsed on hospital floor in Toledo after a neck boil treatment. Doctors attributed heart attack. Survived by wife Mrs Caswell and son Walter H of New York. He was a Mason and member of several clubs.
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Toledo
Fordyce B. Caswell
Champion Spark Plug Company
Caswell
Walter H
New York
Army Engineers to Study Nicaragua Canal Plan
Washington June 14. The American government has secured permission from Nicaragua to dispatch a battalion of army engineer troops to conduct a preliminary survey of the practicability and approximate cost of an interoceanic canal route through Nicaragua. The battalion will be sent under War Department orders. selection of troops has not yet been made.
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Nicaragua
Army
War Department
Fire damages hit two east commerce firms
A blaze of unknown origin last night caused about 2000 dollars damage to the American Pitch Company at 10 East Commerce Street and 500 dollars to the S. D. Peacock Company contractors at 12 East Commerce Street. Marshal Edward Franks directed the firemen on the scene.
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American Pitch Company
East Commerce Street
S. D. Peacock Company
Marshal Edward Franks
County candidates file declarations for August primary
Candidates across county municipalities filed their declarations with the Board of Elections for the August 13 primary. The last day to file ended yesterday, and the first independent in the Cincinnati Council race, Thomas J. McFarland, salesman of 1562 Ruth Avenue, filed noting he is not subject to the primary and will appear on November ballot.
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Cincinnati
Board of Elections
Cincinnati Council
Thomas J. McFarland
Ruth Avenue
Newport informer survives attack as mob roars
John Sechrest, famed federal prohibition informer in Newport Kentucky, narrowly escapes death when four men force him into a touring car on Second and Washington. They threaten him with old arrest warrants and shout about burning the car after an attempt to kill him fails. Sechrest flees to a nearby house and later tells police he believes arrests will follow. He has a history of many liquor-law prosecutions and several death threats.
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John Sechrest
Newport
Second
Washington Streets
Washington Street
Sechrest
Moving Pictures
Kentucky
Eleventh
Monmouth Streets
Cincinnati
Federal Court
Covington
Business Women Elect Officers at Annual Meeting
Miss Ella Schroeder was re elected President of the Business Women's Club at the annual meeting last night. Flora Acomb was chosen Corresponding Secretary, with Clara McBreen and Dr Eliza Edwards as First and Second Vice Presidents respectively. Mrs Mary Seubert Dodd was Recording Secretary and Florence Wood was Treasurer.
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Ella Schroeder
Business Women’s Club
Flora Acomb
Clara McBreen
Eliza Edwards
Mary Seubert Dodd
Florence Wood
Murderer Carr Hanged in West Virginia Prison
Theodore Carr, a 50 year old Pocahontas County farmer, was hanged at the state prison in Moundsville for the murder of Lock Sharp during a land dispute. Carr’s estranged wife was shot fatally at the same time, though he was not tried for that slaying.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Theodore Carr
Pocahontas County
Lock Sharp
Carr
Sharp
Confession in Toledo Murder Case Stuns City
Jesse Keith, 41, a laborer of 408 Mill Street, confessed to killing Robert McDonald, 40, a Big Four Railroad section hand from Toledo. McDonald’s beaten body was found in a shack at Third and Mills streets early Thursday. Police say robbery was the motive.
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Jesse Keith
Mill Street
Robert McDonald
Railroad
Toledo
Third and
Mills Streets
Child Struck by Taxicab Near Mohawk Street Home
Three year old James Schulte son of Howard Schulte residing at 222 Mohawk street was struck by a taxicab in front of his home. The vehicle driven by Louis Boehnlein of 227 Mohawk street took the boy to St. Mary's Hospital. He suffered a possible skull fracture concussion and bruises.
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James Schulte
Howard Schulte
Mohawk Street
Louis Boehnlein
Boehnlein
St. Mary’s Hospital
Alumni Banquet Honors 1929 Medical Graduates at Cincinnati
The College of Medicine Alumni Association of the University of Cincinnati hosted the 1929 senior class at the Hotel Gibson last night. Dr. W D Haines led the gathering as president, with Dr. Robert Canard presenting “The General Practitioner.” Dean A C Bachmeyer awarded diplomas while David Ludwig Steiner, class president, spoke. Dr. E O Denney of the U S Public Health Service delivered the keynote on Leprosy.
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Alumni Association
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Gibson
W. D. Haines
Robert Canard
A. C. Bachmeyer
David Ludwig Steiner
E. O. Denney
Univd States Public Health Servica
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