Fifth Husband Seeks Divorce
Frank Swearinger a 50 year old stationary engineer of West Sixth street seeks a divorce from Isabel Swearinger 42 of 305 Sycamore street claiming she consorted with other men and stayed out late. Judge Hoffman held the case for more witnesses. Separately Lucille Beckman obtained a divorce from Ernest Beckman as he serves five to seven years in the Ohio Penitentiary on grand larceny charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Swearinger
West Sixth Street
Isabel Swearinger
Sycamore Street
Swearinger
Hoffman
Ohio Penitentiary
Lucille Beckman
West Ninth Street
Ernest Beckman
Secret Elopement Ends in Divorce for Maynards
Clarence Maynard aged 37 of 329 West McMillan street and Mrs. Freda Maynard aged 28 of 560 Enright avenue eloped and wed on March 6 1925 leading to a divorce yesterday with the wife securing the decree. James Harris of 7520 Lockland avenue faces a divorce from Mrs. Bregetta Harris of 609 Delhi avenue after a confrontation over refusal to attend dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Maynard
McMillan Street
Freda Maynard
Enright Avenue
James Harris
Lockland Avenue
Bregetta Harris
Delhi Avenue
Childhood romance ends in divorce filing
Vera Vogel age 26 of 1267 State avenue files for divorce from Charles J. Vogel age 29 of 512 Findlay street. They married on September 3, 1914 after eloping when Vera was 15. Judge Hoffman continued the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Vogel
State Avenue
Charles J. Vogel
Findlay Street
Higher Court Reverses Conviction of Raider in 1921 Case
The Court of Appeals reversed the 1921 conviction of Alexander N. Pierson, a Milford prohibition agent, for assaulting 17 year old Howard Marsch during a Marsch home raid. The case is remanded for a new trial as the mayor’s authority to appoint Pierson as Deputy Marshal in two counties was upheld by the higher court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander N. Pierson
Milford Liquor Court
Woeste
Municipal Court
Howard Marsch
Sycamore Street
Marsch
Court of Appeals
Pierson
Milford
Hamilton
Clermont
Hamilton County
Supreme Court
Woman Denies Charges In Divorced Suit
Mrs. Leonora Forney Burkhart answering her husband Dr. William S. Burkhart in Domestic Relations Court seeks a decree of divorce. She accuses him of cold treatment and withholding letters from their children and of discussing private matters with servants. The couple married in Santa Anna California on June 15 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Burkhart
Leonora Forney Burkhart
Santa Anna
Cal
Court Calendar for Common Pleas and Related Courts
Daily docket lists multiple cases in rooms 1 3 5 6 7 for Common Pleas Court with judges Caldwell LeBlond Roettinger Darby and Struble including McNees vs Polasky Fean et al Southern Railway Leonard vs Mowbray and others at 9 6 2 and 9 o'clock followed by Superior Court Becker vs Allen at 10 o'clock and Domestic Relations Smith vs Smith Baker vs Baker Chapman vs Chapman Marshall vs Marshall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
McNees
Polasky
Meissmer
Kischner
LeBlond
Leonard
Mowbray
Fean
The
Ere Machine Company
Cordes
Martin
Sullivan
Dickerson
Morton
City of Cincinnati
Litzis
Mikolas
Judge Roettinger
Pitt
Black
Williams
Bauman
Darby
McHenry
Britton
Feil
Arlage
Smith
Hann
Pugh
Zeff
Faulkner
Fazzia
Cincinnati’ Traction Company
Hecker
Hammel
Baumann
Hanlon
Neuer Et al
the Highland Body Manufacturing Company
Next
Cloverleaf Life and Casualty Company
Anderson
Emerson
Correct Container Co
Superior Court
Marx
Becker
Allen
C. W. Hoffman
Baker
Lil
Chapman
Chapma
Marshall
Divorced Man Charged Over Income and Home Ban
Harold S. Mc Cloud, office manager from Clineview avenue, is suing Martha McCloud for divorce through James E. O'Connell. He says his wife bans him from the home and mocks his income, though it is generally adequate. They married August 23, 1913, and have a six year old child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold S. McCloud
Clineview Avenue
Martha McCloud
James E. O'Connell
McCloud
Lockland Negro Loses Another Step In Fight To Escape Death Chair
Robert Little of Lockland Ohio had a first degree murder conviction upheld by the Court of Appeals and is set to die in the electric chair July 3. His attorney Henry Gibson planned a stay and appeal to the Supreme Court. Also affirmed were the convictions of John Fitzhugh and Talton Macon on related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockland Negro
Robert Little
Lockland
Court of Appeals
Roettinger
Little
Henry K. Gibson
Supreme Court
John
Talton Macon
Charles Allen
Richmond Street
Morton seeks fifty thousand in counter suit against film firm
Phil Morton a signboard operator filed a counter claim for 50 000 in U S District Court yesterday in response to a suit by Famous-Lasky Corporation over a Fifth and Pike street building. The contract set November 1 1924 as completion and a ten year lease to Famous Players at 600 a month. The firm says Morton used inferior materials and refused to accept the completed building prompting a damages suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Morton
United States District Court
Famous-Lasky Corporation
Morton
Fifth and
Pike Streets
Famous Players Company
Film Company
Judgment Won in Common Pleas for $27,190
A default judgment of 27190 was entered against E. B. Rogers of 760 North Auburn avenue in favor of R. K. LeBlond. The note dated April 10 1919 was declared due. Rogers failed to appear to defend the suit and the judge granted the judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roettinger
Common Pleas Court
E. B. Rogers
North
Auburn Avenue
R. K. LeBlond
Rogers
Child Files 20000 Suit Over Auto Injury
Albert Schuck a 10 year old filed a common pleas suit with his father Albert J Schuck alleging he was struck and injured by a car owned by John H Meiners at McMicken avenue and Warner street on April 9 1925 seeking 20000 damages in the common pleas court yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Meiners
McMicken Avenue
Warner Street
Albert Schuck
Albert J. Schuck
New Suits Filed in District Court
A list of civil cases entered with numbers 195703 through 195718 and 69291 shows divorces and alimony requests, damages claims, and appeals. Parties include Marie Alderson and Andy Anderson, Chloe Schroeder and Louis Schroeder, Emily Keller and Harry Keller, and others. Damages sought range from 167 to 20,000 dollars, with several petitions in error and appeals noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Pleas Court
Marie Alderson
Andy Anderson
Chloe Schroeder
Louis Schroeder
Albert Focke
John C. Brufach
Theodore E. Stockton
Edna Grossman
Emily K. Keller
Harry G. Keller
Delco Light Company
Audley H. Brown
Fanny P. Pease
Robert Mitchell Furniture Company
Peter Cassinelli
Jacob Keur
Ohn Kozley
Harold S. McCloud
Mareens
Essie E. Petrakos
George T. Petrakos
Ella Brown
Alexander M. Brown
Superior Court
Peter Karlas
Frank Wolpa
W. Morse Hicks
C. B. Tthepenthnice Company
Referendum Question Over Gas Rates Deliberated By Judge
Judge Darby took under advisement a case to permanently restrain Union Gas and Electric from enforcing new rates without a referendum. Lawyers argued the 1905 contract fixed rates by city legislature, not referendum, and prior rulings in 1918 1922 upheld that stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli G. Frankenstein
Union Gas and Electric Company
Darby
H. C. Hollister
Federal Court
E. T. Dixon
Common Pleas Court
Hollister
Court of Appeals
Traction Company to Convene Reorganization Over Mt Pleasant Pike Loss
A Hamilton division of the Cincinnati and Dayton Traction Company plans a five week meeting to reorganize the firm to cover its share of Mt Pleasant pike track paving. Receiver George P Sohngen says failure to reorganize could force abandonment of the Hamilton College Hill division due to a $60 000 funding gap amid bus competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Pleasant
Traction Company
Hamilton College Hill
Mt. Pleasant Pike
Millikin
Opposed Clergy Urges Birth Control Rejection
The Archdiocesan Union of the Holy Name Society denounces birth control discussions at a Swedenborgian convention and calls for traditional procreation, urging couples to bear 3.2 children to replenish humanity and criticizing ministers for open debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swedenborgian Church
Church of the New Jerusalem
Walnut Hills
Archdiocesan Union of the Holy Name Society
Theodore Thoma
Price Hill
William Rieckelman
Union
Judge Marx Granted Commission as Major in Army
Judge Robert S. Marx received a reserve commission as Major in the Judge Advocate General's Department of the army per a Washington dispatch. Cincinnatian Earl Milton Derbes was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry in reserve. Marx had a strong war record as Captain of Company L, 357th Infantry, 90th Division and was wounded several times. he earned the Distinguished Service Cross presented May 29, 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Marx
Judge Advocate General’s Department of the Army
Washington
Earl Milton Derbes
Woodburn Avenue
Infantry
Judge Marx
357Th Infantry
Court rejects patent infringement claim on baby walker invention
United States court notes that The Wonder Manufacturing Company and Adrian Baby Carriage Company denied infringement allegations. The suits filed by Rank F. Taylor Company claim exclusive rights to the invention credited to James I. Carroll. The answers were filed yesterday in U.S. District Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
James I. Carroll
Wonder Manufacturing Company
John G. Adrian
Adrian Baby Carriage Company
Rank F. Taylor Company
Sroufe suit against Pennsylvania Railroad dismissed
In United States District Court Judge Hickenlooper dismissed the case brought by Jesse L. Sroufe of Sardinia against the Pennsylvania Railroad for 53300 damages from injuries after a fall from a coal tipple into an open hatchway at Dayton on August 10, 1923. The defendant’s amended answer reveals the tipple was not owned by the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse L. Sroufe
Sardinia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
United States District Court
Hickenlooper
S ‘Soauiel
Sroufe
Dayton
Walter Schubert Held on Narcotics Charge in County Case
Walter Schubert of 1214 Walnut Street was arrested June 2 by federal narcotic agent Earl Fischbach on a drug selling charge. He was held to the grand jury by Commissioner Gregory and returned to County Jail in default of a 500 dollar bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Schubert
Walnut Street
Earl Fischbach
Gregory
Duval bound over after preliminary hearing in liquor case
Friend M. Duval of 222 Central Avenue, arrested June 13 on liquor selling and possession charges and nuisance maintenance, waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing before Commissioner Gregory. Whisky found in the cafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friend M. Duval
Central Avenue
Gregory
Morley suit seeks 25000 damages over 1922 picnic train crash
George S. Morley filed suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for injuries allegedly suffered when a picnic train collided with another train at the Lester road crossing on August 1, 1922. The case was transferred from the superior court to the United States District Court yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Morley
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Lester Road Crossing
Inperior Court
United States District Court
Final bankruptcy reports filed for Dirkin Bros Ernst and Steinheimer
C T Greve reports in Dirkin Bros bankruptcy creditors of 16249.27 claims paid 25 percent totaling 4075.81 with all secured and one unsecured claim. assets realized 4425. Ernst farmer of Fayetteville owes 7368.32 liabilities with 5674.01 assets realized 5654.01. Steinheimer of 1207 Vine street files voluntary petition with liabilities 5864.51 and assets 1882.51.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. T. Greve
Dirkin Bros
Central Avenue
John €. Ernst
Fayetteville
Joseph Steinheimer
Vinestreet
Thirty Days and a Fine for Intoxicated Driver
Clyde Bruce, 25, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $100 fine for driving while intoxicated after a crash on the Springfield pike opposite the Carthage fair grounds. His companion Connie Sewell, 21, was fined $25. Willie Higaman, 22, was fined with costs suspended. Nine speeders and several others were cited or fined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Bruce
West Seventh Street
Bell
Bruce
Springfield Pike
Carthage Fair Grounds
Connie Sewell
Fifth
Baymiller
Willie Bell Higaman
West Ninth Street
Mary Higaman
Speeders
Eugene Beck
Winchell Avenue
Matt Waldeck
West McMicken Avenue
William Dobbs
Fred L. Henn
August Zwick
State Avenue
Fred Kist
Elm Street
Edward Scott
Cutter Street
Joseph Henderson
Saffin Avenue
Richard Nolke
Central Avenue
Nolke
Edith Curliss
West
McMillan Street
Beechmont Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Charles E. Blue
Main Avenue
Norwood
Nick Kreiten
McNeill Avenue
Sylvester Carmichael
Colter Street
George Donovan
Maple Avenue
Charles Meier
Flack Street
Resale of Tickets Charged at Coney Island
The alleged resale of tickets for the Tumble Bag at Coney Island led to the arrest of cashier Hazel Widowich 23 of St Charles Hotel and two ticket takers Alvin Bake man 20 of Kellogg avenue near the Little Miami River bridge and Orville Lunsford 32 of 1106 Madison avenue Covington on larceny charges. A L Riesenberger the general manager of the Coney Island Company obtained warrants for the arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
Hazel Widowich
St. Charles Hotel
Alvin Bakeman
Kellogg Avenue
Little Miami River Bridge
Orville Lunsford
Madison Avenue
Covington
Three New Counterfeit Bills Ringing Circulation
Washington June 22 three new counterfeit notes are in circulation and the Post Office Department has joined Chief Moran of the Treasury secret service in a nationwide lookout for their makers. One is a $5 national currency note from Chase National Bank New York 1902 Franklin portrait. The second is a $5 Federal Reserve note with Lincoln portrait. The third is a $20 Federal Reserve note from Federal Bank of Boston with Cleveland likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Post Office Department
Chief Moran
Secret Service of the Treasury
Chase National Bank of New York
Benjamin Franklin
Federal Reserve
President Lincoln
Federal Bank of Boston
Grover Cleveland
Standardized lumber grade marking to be discussed here
Plans to localize the national push for standardization and grade marking of lumber will be debated at a Cincinnati dinner hosted by the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers. About fifty building professionals will attend with speakers from the city’s architectural, construction, and purchasing circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Commerce
Stumpf’s Garden
Price Hill
Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers
Edgar Cummings
Retail Lumbermen’s Association
Hauser
A. O. Elzner
Southern Pine Association
Horses Needed for Street Cleaning Work
Fred Maag, superintendent of the Street Cleaning Department, urged the use of horses and mules in 1924. He noted the department had 290 head of livestock in 1914, but ended last year with fewer animals, underscoring the need to restore stock for city cleaning operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hornberger
Fred Maag
Government department funds and staffing decline since 1912
Headcount and horses and mules total 157 as reported by Maag. He laments funding shortfalls noting 1912 appropriations of 432,489.28 with 582 workers versus 1924 funding of 278,500 and 211 employees.
John Shillito Succeeds Father as Company President
John Shillito, vice president and son of Stewart Shillito, was elevated to president by the board after his father’s death. Morris Wickersham becomes vice president, John C. Meyer is named assistant secretary, and John H. Macke is elected director.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shillito
John Shillito Company
Stewart Shillito
Morris Wickersham
Shillito
John C. Meyer
John H. Macke
Heat Takes Another Victim In City
George W. Little, 79, homeless, was found on the Pearl Street Broadway sidewalk and taken to General Hospital after exposure. He was reported in not serious condition as the day’s high reached 88 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Little
Pearl Street
Broadway
General Hospital
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Ll. M. Amsted & Co., Inc
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Citizens Motor Car Company
Everett Perry
W. C. Gilmour
Aliie Cross
Warren County
Home For Colored Girls
Wade H. Killingsworth
Kathryn Watson
Audrey A. Watson
Nelia Atley
C. A. Atley
William Hague
R. E. Moon
Clinton County
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Ida Hanneburg
Rieckelman
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