Commercial Tribune June 22, 1925 edition
Front page masthead notes the paper name The Commercial Tribune published in Cincinnati by The Commercial Tribune Publishing Company. Harry W. Brown serves as publisher and president. It lists stamp locations and pricing for daily and Sunday copies and notes Associated Press partnership and the June 22 1925 date.
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Commercial Tribune Publishing Company
Commercial Square
Broadway
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry W. Brown
Commercial Tribune
New York City
Schultz
Sixth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Just Taking a Chance in Life's Lottery
An article reflects on a Cincinnati Police Department forgery case where the defendant says I just took a chance. It broadens to society’s pervasive risk taking, lawlessness, and the era of unprecedented laws, warning that many people take chances with life, death, time, and eternity.
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Cincinnati Police Department
Letter That Never Came Prompts Postal Cost Warning
The Commercial Tribune relays a Post Office Department appeal about lost mail and misdirected packages. It cites cost to senders and the Postal Service, urging legible return addresses and proper wrapping to prevent mail from entering the dead letter office.
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Post Office Department
Commercial Tribune
Postal Department
Postal Service
The Fake Revisited and the Press Agent's Tactics
A sharp critique traces the long arc of the fake from Barnum to modern press agents. It notes repeated use of staged stories to attract attention, the copying novice, and a Cincinnati navy recruitment tale as a fresh example of the old hoax in new form.
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Methuselah
Barnum
Navy
Cincinnati
United States
Kentucky
Air mail linked New York to Chicago in overnight runs
The government plans July first as the start of overnight air mail service east and west between New York and Chicago. Cleveland and Cincinnati stand to gain later, with half a million dollars needed for mountain airway lighting and thirty two landing fields.
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New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Uncle Sam
Postal Department
Biologists and Insects At War With Garden Pests
In a playful critique, the poem argues biologists fail to stop ants, cutworms, codlin moths, and other pests. It suggests scientists study insects with microscopes but do not end their destruction, while noting unrelated political asides about evolution and world conflicts.
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Gentle Reader
Brief Career Synonym For Scofflaw Marked Obs
A crossword puzzle labeled the term meaning scofflaw as an observation note. The clue marked with Obs suggests the editor noted the synonym as an observation rather than a definition.
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Scofflaw
A Modern Pepys Diary From New York June 2 1925
A diary excerpt recounts a bustling New York day with breakfast eggs at the tobacconist sighting Isaac Marcosson in a blue shirt and Mary Mannering at a horseless conveyance. It notes teetotalers as gay companions, reflections on aging, fashion trends, gossip about baby talk, changes in social slang, and the rise of cultured magazines amid city nightlife.
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New York
Samuel Pepys
the Times
Isaac Marcosson
Mary Mannering
Fred Stone
Will Rogers
Earl Carroll
Gene Buck
V. Porter
Montague
Europe
Nina
Justin
For Your Welfare And Your Success By Dr Reed
A historical note presents Dr Charles A L Reed former AMA president offering guidance on wellbeing and achievement. It frames health as a civic duty and links medical leadership to personal and community progress.
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Charles A. L. Reed
The
American Medical Association
The Annual Repetition of the Fly Question
An instructional piece on the house fly as a disease carrier. It explains how flies breed in rotting matter, spread germs for typhoid, diarrhea, tuberculosis, and more, and offers detailed sanitation steps. It urges sealing waste, screening food, burying table scraps, burning refuse, and maintaining clean sewage to prevent fly breeding.
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DR. Reed
L. O. Howard
Bureau of Entomology
Washington
King Feature Synd., Inc
Quiz Answers From The Saturday Questions
Tomorrow's paper will print the solutions to the current quiz. The Saturday questions cover geography history and classical knowledge with items about Mississippi muskmelon silk centers France and Magna Charta. The previously published answers include Mohammedan calendars Hippolita the pumpkin gourd and other ancient topics.
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Mississippi
India
Spanish America
Shenandoah Valley
France
Sea of Marmora
Gustavus Adolphus
Mohammed
Hippolita
Asuncion
Paraguay
South America
Sarza
Sarsaparilla
Epimenides
Press Publishing Co
Fifty Years Ago in Cincinnati Highlights of 19th Century Events
The seventh annual commence ment of Cincinnati Normal School at Pike's Opera House under John B. Peaslee. W T Harris of St Louis gave the principal address. A river steamer B W Skillinger burned after a lightning strike causing 15000 in losses. Police jailed eleven sacred concert musicians at Reichraths Garden. Building contract for Queen City Club approved at Grand Central Hotel for 46750 to Cotteral & Son. Covington Street Railway wins right of way in rail dispute with Covington & Cincinnati. Chancellor Menzies grants the former injunction.
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Cincinnati Normal School
Pike’s Opera House
John B. Peaslee
W. T. Harris
St. Louis
Queen City Club
Grand Central Hotel
Longworth
Seventh and Elm Streets
J. W. Cotteral & Son
Covington Street Railway
Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway
Menzies
Election contest before Council committee in Sixteenth Ward
Another election contest appeared before the Council committee. The report notes the Sixteenth Ward involvement with Armstrong and Smith as the principal figures in the dispute.
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Armstrong
Smith
Banking reform talk and a night of crime in Cincinnati
The Ohio bankers and state commerce boards debated creating a State Banking Department and periodic book examinations. Police chief Paul Millikin faced neighbor burglaries as eight residents were robbed in a month. Senator Foraker vacationed in Hot Springs. An oil dust control test was planned on Madison road. A trench collapse on Linwood Avenue killed Martin Murray. Weather: cloudy, around 70 degrees.
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Ohio Bankers’ Association
Ohio State Board of Commerce
Allo
Paul Millikin
Cincinnati
Linwood Avenue
Martin Murray
Gladstone Avenue
Baggage Tagged Babe Crosses Atlantic Alone
The New York World News Service reports Carl Andrae Brumme, age 2, arrived with a baggage tag reading I am an American citizen and I speak no English. He completed a solo trans Atlantic voyage on the Scandinavian American liner Helig-Olav and was met in Hoboken by his parents. The child wore an officer’s cap and sailor suit with safety pins visible beneath his buttons. The reception committee then accompanied the family to the Brumme home in the Bronx.
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New York World News Service
New York
Helig-Olav
Hoboken
Carl Andrae Brumme
Carl
Brumme
Bronx
Ham Skin Club Opens Camp At Cullom Riffles Blowout
The Ham Skin Club opened its camp at Cullom's Riffles with a great blowout. Edwin Henderson gave a speech. President Louis Rinkenberger presented George Deckebach with a ham engraved with all members’ names. Attendees included Louis Rinkenberger and William McNally.
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Ham
Cullom’s
Riffles
Edwin Henderson
Louis Rinkenberger
George Deckebach
William McNally
Debt Collecting Agency Offers Help to America
The American Government seeks settlement of war debts and a commercial collection agency writes offering services to the American Debt Commission. The manager stresses that applied psychology is needed to boost collections from small countries.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Debt Commission
Bait Future for American Economy in 1925 Outlook
In a calm midsummer view from New York City New York on June 21 1925 the outlook across the United States shows mixed signals. Grain remains near normal as Canada promises good crops while short selling may be disciplined. Cotton remains buoyant with large exports and rising prices. Coal and shoe sectors show uneven demand. The automobile industry improves boosting related metals and construction. Oil stocks trade actively while railway securities expect rate moves that may not occur. International risks include Mexico France and China with distant potential effects but overall domestic conditions are steady.
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Theodore H
Price
Commerce and Finance
New York
Europe
China
Mexico
United Sttes
Canada
Department of Agriculture
America
Northwest
Great Lakes
New Haven
New England
van Sweringen
St. Paul
Federal Reserve System
Foreign Affairs
United States
Cuba
France
Caillaux
Race of Giants Said Found in Chihuahua Mountains
Mexican government plans a commission to Chihuahua Mountains to verify reports of twelve foot giant skeletons found in a newly discovered cave used as a burial ground for an extinct race. Mining men report a wooden floor under the skeletons and feet of about twenty inches, with pottery and signs of occupation nearby.
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Patrick F. Healy
New York World News Service
Mexico City
Chihuahua
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Publishing Company
Immigration quota law raises wages for industrial workers
New York reports from June 21 state the 2 percent immigration quota reduced net arrivals to a fifth of prewar levels. The National Industrial Conference Board finds wages in industry now about 16 percent higher in nominal terms and roughly 30 percent higher in real purchasing power compared with 1914, with overall population growth stabilizing as a result.
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New York World News Service
New York
United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Conference Board
Notable Warbler Migration Across New England in 1925
The June letter from Edward Howe Forbush notes the first tanager in Connecticut on May 10 and a migrant shrike in Essex County Massachusetts on May 15. Warblers including blue winged golden winged Wilsons Magnolia black throated blue and prairie were common. rarities include a male Prothonotary in Middlesex May 5 and a yellow throated in Connecticut. Hooded and worm eating warblers arrived in Southern Connecticut May 10. A lone blue gray gnatcatcher was reported in Massachusetts. Northern water thrushes were unusually common and a mocking bird that winters on Plymouth County coast has arrived and will depart. Two Carolina wrens were seen on the Southern New England coast.
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Connecticut
Edward Howe Forbush
Massachusetts
Essex County
Mass
Middlesex County
Massachusetss
Plymouth County
New England
J. Otis Swipts
N. Y
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