Five Cincinnati Shoe Firms Merged Into United States Shoe
A group of Cincinnati bankers and brokers unveil plans to consolidate five local shoe manufacturers under the United States Shoe Company with assets valued at 5.2 million dollars. The deal centers on The Val Duttenhofer Company, Robert Wise Company, Scheiffeld Shoe Manufacturing, Krohn Fechheimer Company, and Holters Shoe Company, with Lewis Rosenstiel holding options and James Hutton leading financing. The merger aims to centralize purchasing and management to save about 150,000 annually and expand production.
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Cincinnati
Columbus
W. E. Hutton Company
Lewis
Rosenstiel Company
Lewis Rosenstiel
United States Shoe Company
Val Duttenhofer Company
Eghth
Sycamore
Robert Wise Company
Court Street
Broadway
Scheiffeld Shoe Manufacturing Company
Hoffner and
Delaney
Krohn- Fechheimer Company
Pendleton
Dandridge
Noah
Holters Shoe Company
Spring Grove Avenue
Alfred Street
R. K. LeBlond
John G. Holters
Rosenstiel
Mr. Hutton
Hutton
Ernst, Cassatt & Cottle
James Hutton
United Company
James Chutton
Louis Rosenstein
Buffalo
N. Y
Women Helpers Douse Roof Fire at Church Annex
Fifty women from the Helping Hand Mothers' Club formed a bucket brigade and stopped a roof fire on the Vermilye Collegiate Reformed Church annex in West Fifty fourth street. Crowds cheered as the women brought the blaze under control after it started from a workman's tar pot while the club members were inside.
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New York
Helping Hand Mothers’ Club
Vermilye Collegiate Reformed Church
West Fifty-fourth Street
Fire Devastates World Match Plant. Thirteen Injured
In New York the World Match Company plant near Brooklyn Bridge saw flames erupting after a blaze traced to a carton of mats. Thirteen workers were injured. two men missing after leaping from windows as the building burned. Two firemen also hurt as flames threatened surrounding property and a nearby horse stable.
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New York
World Match Company
Brooklyn Bridge
Match Company
Dean of Smith College Elected President of Radcliffe College
Miss Adam Louise Comstock, dean of Smith College, was elected President of Radcliffe College to take office in June. She becomes Radcliffe’s first full time president, succeeding Lee Baron R. Briggs who led Radcliffe and Harvard Arts and Sciences for twenty years. Comstock has long led university women’s groups and previously served as dean of women at the University of Minnesota. She holds degrees from Smith, Columbia, and has honorary doctorates from Mt. Holyoke and the University of Michigan.
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Cambridge
Mass
Adam Louise Comstock
Smith College
Radcliffe College
Radcliffe
Lee Baron R. Briggs
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Miss Comstock
University of Minnesota
Smith
American Association of University Women
Moorehead
Minn
State University
Columbia University
Sorbonne
Minnesota
Comstock
Mt. Holyoke
University of Michigan
Most Tattooed Body In New York Morgue
Frederick Herman a former barge captain was identified as the most tattooed body ever seen at the City Morgue. His body bore many designs including a full rigged ship on the chest a depiction from Ben Hur a snakes around the neck and a tombstone verso bearing In Memory of Mother among numerous figures and symbols.
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New York
Frederick Herman
City
Herman
Ben Hur
Columbia
Women Jurors Weep Then Convict Man of Double Murder
In Pittsburgh Criminal Court on March 14 Joseph Valotta was found guilty of first and second degree murder for the killings of Thomas Hopkins and police officer Edward Kough in October. Juror Mrs Wesley Hale cried upon delivering her verdict. juror Mrs Sabel Griffith kept her composure.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph Valotta
Wesley Hale
Sabel Griffith
Valetta
Thomas Hopkins
Edward Kough
Alum & Doepke settlement ends long company dispute
The Alms & Doepke Company litigation with William L Doepke and Robert H Doepke ends in a settlement granting executive control to the Doepkes. A board meeting followed. April 16 stockholders ratify the agreement while a rapid reorganization targets new officers and capital changes. The will contest involving Eleanor C A Alms is expected to reveal terms today.
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William L
Robert H. Doepke
Alms
Alms & Doepke Company
Eleanor C. A. Alms
Thomas H. Darby
Common Pleas Court
Edward H. L. Haefner
Richard J. Benson
E. B. Ulrich
Charles C. Chase
Alms Burdsal
Bettman
Maughan Heads to Dayton to Challenging Air Speed Record
Lieutenant Russell Maughan sails from San Antonio to Dayton to attempt breaking the official world air speed record of 232 miles per hour. In last fall’s race at Selfridge Field he flew a Curtiss racer at 234 mph, risking unconsciousness yet avoiding a crash. The effort requires observation by international authorities to count as official. He plans to use a Curtiss racing plane of the same model and hopes to surpass France’s Sadi Le Cointe who holds the official record.
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San Antonio
Sadi le Cointe
Russell Maughan
Air Service
McCook Field
Dayton
Maughan
Selfridge Field
Detroit
Mich
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
International Aeronautical Association
LeCointe
Paris
William Slidell's Death Shocks Nation
Charles F. Cramer of San Francisco, former general counsel for the Veterans' Bureau, shot himself in his Washington home after public attacks on the bureau. He died at 45, leaving a noteless tragedy amid a Senate inquiry and Legion criticism.
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Washington
Charles F. Cramer
San Francisco
Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau
Congress
Mr. Cramer
Harding
Senate
Cramer
California
American Legion
Council of the Legion
Indianapolis
Forbes
John F. O’ryan
New York
Lenine and Trotzky Predicted Doomed to Die by Crane
Charles R. Crane, former American minister to China, says Lenine and Trotzky are doomed to die. Crane, who spent five months in Europe, visited Moscow and Petrograd and reports the Soviet Premier in a dying condition and Trotzky suffering from an obscure malignant abdominal trouble.
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London
Russia
Lenine
Trotzky
Charles R. Crane
China
United States
Europe
Crane
Moscow
Petrograd
Condition of Premier Lenine Remains Critical
Moscow reports no change in Lenine's health as official bulletins indicate an apoplectic illness. Crowds gather to read the notices posted publically, with intense interest across the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Moscow
Lenine
Backfire Ignites Auto Damaging Buskirk Heyser Vehicle
An automobile owned by W. E. Heyser vice president of the Buskirk Heyser Lumber Company was damaged by fire to the extent of 1200 dollars. The blaze was caused by backfire and extinguished by firemen called to Lincoln avenue and Reading road. Heyser was en route from his Crescent Apartments home to his office when the car caught fire.
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W. E. Heyser
Buskirk-Heyser Lumber Company
Lincoln Avenue
Reading Road
Heyser
Crescent Apartments
South Crescent Avenue
Slidell of Boston Dies After Leap From Providence
William Slidell, a World War veteran and Princeton graduate from a noted Louisiana family, died by his own hand Monday after leaping from the steamer Providence near arrival from French and Italian ports. He was grandson of John Slidell, Confederate diplomat, linked to the Trent incident with Britain in 1861.
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New York
William Slidell
Boston
Mason
England
Charles Wilkes
United States Navy
Slidell
Ft. Warren
France
London
Princeton Club
New Orleans
Slidell Graduate of Princeton Class of 1899
William J. Slidell, who died by his own hand from the steamship Providence at sea, was a Princeton University class of 1899 member. The university registrar’s office said information was not definite but generally understood he was a grandson of the Slidell family famous in the Mason and Slidell case of the Civil War.
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Slidell
Princeton
N. J
William J. Slidell
Providence
Princeton University
Mason and Slidell
Four Irishmen Executed at Drumboe Castle
Four men were executed today at Drumboe Castle Stranorlar County Donegal according to a Dublin dispatch. The Free State resumed executions after an amnesty period and most sentences reflect offenses after the amnesty offer with notable promptness and some tied to bank robberies.
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London
Drumboe Castle
Stranorlar
County Donegal
Dublin
Free State
De Valera Letters Publicly Released by Free State
The Free State Government published captured letters from Eamon de Valera to Joe McGarity of Philadelphia J J Kelly and Laurence Ginnell of De Valera's party now in the United States. Written last February the letters say more money is needed to fund the irregulars to smash opponents. The government says the letters reveal Irish division and failure of the campaign for aid.
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Free State
de Valera
United States
Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Joe McGarity
Philadelphia
J. J. Kelly
Laurence Ginnell
Ireland
Jim Larkin Denied Entry at Quebec Border
Irish labor agitator Jim Larkin was refused admittance to Canada when he crossed the border at Highwater Quebec on March 14. The controversy centers on immigration eligibility and potential political activities. Larkin has long been a prominent labor organizer and agitator.
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Montreal
Jim Larkin
Canada
Highwater
Quebec
Death of Carter Expected At Any Moment
William S. Carter former President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen lies in a coma at the Church Home and Infirmary Baltimore s heart disease state. His wife Mrs Carter tends his bedside as son Lee Carter and son in law Harry E Reed arrive from Washington to be with him.
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Baltimore
William S. Carter
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Rested Case in $10 Million Liquor Conspiracy Trial
The government rested its case against Harold L. Hart once State Prohibition Director William A. Orr and fourteen others in the $10,000,000 liquor conspiracy. Defense lawyers prepare to seek dismissal, with arguments set for tomorrow morning as Judge Winslow adjourns jury for the day.
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New York
Harold L. Hart
William A. Orr
Whitman
Winslow
Ice Bombing on Mt Auburn Creates Turmoil over Delaware River
Army bombers from Aberdeen Field dropped 300 pound TNT from 2000 feet at the Delaware River ice jam near Port Jervis New York. Seven bombs tore cavities six feet deep and three landed on the New Jersey shore, while spectators narrowly escaped injury. planes then moved to Matamoras PA awaiting return to base.
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Port Jervis
N. Y
Delaware River
Martin
Aberdeen Field
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Matamoras
Phillips Melville
Federal tax probes reach New York lawyer and promoter
A Manhattan federal grand jury indicted John T. Hettrick famed code of practice lawyer on perjury charges for underreporting 1919 income. Brooklyn investigators also charged Frank Czieslik real estate operator with failure to report 1920 income and omitted profits from patent sales. Authorities said tax audits lag six years, with about 25 million returns left to review and a need for 10,000 accountants.
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New York
Internal Revenue
Manhattan
John T. Hettrick
Lockwood Legislature
Building Trust
Brooklyn
Frank Czieslik
Czieslik
Washington
Rafferty
Wall Street
Ladies Day raid finds moonshine at Turkish bath house
Prohibition agents raided a Philadelphia Turkish bath house on Ladies Day, discovering a working still and forty gallons of moonshine. Fifty women fled as the attendant claimed the day was ladies only while the proprietors Max Nathan and Abe Wackerman were sought by agents.
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Philadelphia
Prohibition
Max Nathan
Abe Wackerman
Southern Railway Orders $17 Million in New Equipment
The Southern Railway announced yesterday it has ordered new cars and locomotives costing 17 million dollars. This follows 13 million dollars of equipment purchases in 1922, bringing total railway equipment outlay to 30 million dollars over two years.
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Southern Railway
Chicago Exchange Joins Pigley Wiggly Inquiry
The Chicago Stock Exchange joined the New York Stock Exchange in an inquiry to determine if a corner exists in Class A common stock of Piggly Wiggly Stores Inc. Members of the Chicago exchange were asked to provide specific information on their Piggy Wiggly stock transactions.
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Chicago
Chicago Stock Exchange Today
New York Stock Exchange
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc
Chicago Exchange
Tax deadline warning from Internal Revenue official
Internal Revenue Collector Charles M. Dean warned that income tax returns must be in the department office by midnight tonight. Delinquents face criminal mobility enforcement as announced yesterday.
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Internal Revenue Department
Charles M. Dean
Internal Revenue Collector
Shift in Wind Saves Mt. Lowe Observatory Amid Closely Fought Fire
In Pasadena California on March 14 a gale shift saved the Mt. Lowe Observatory on Mt. Echo and the Alpine tavern as a forest fire swept the Sierra Madre range. Firefighters and hundreds of volunteers battled the blaze with winds hindering efforts. two Pasadena High School ROTC volunteers were burned but escaped as wind shifted, one severely, and were carried to safety.
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Pasadena
Cal
Sierra Madre Mountains
Mt. Lowe Observatory
Mt. Echo
Alpine Tavern
Boys Witness Robbery At Martin Street Grocery
Two youths aged 12 and 13 on Martin Street saw three men crash the front door of P C Schneider Grocery Company at 9 30 last night. The trio took goods and fled in an automobile. police found no suspects and the theft value was not determined.
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John Secharr
Martin Street
Raymond Dryer
P.C. Schneider Grocery Company
Rudd
Mystery grows as third person eyed in Goodwin Liermann case
Cincinnati police reconsider the Tuesday slaying of Ethel Goodwin and the self-inflicted death of her ex husband Harry Liermann after a Mt Auburn witness says a mystery man fled the scene at about 2 pm. Coroner and police clash on whether the tragedy was murder or suicide and new leads touch on revolver ownership and possible rival.
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Ethel Goodwin
Harry Liermann
East Auburn Avenue
Cincinnati Police
Cincinnati
Mt. Auburn
Miss Goodwin
Liermann
Kirgan
William McCorkhill
Jeremiah Hanrahan
Emmett Kirgan
Handley
Bertillon Bureau
W. Horace Schmidlapp
Monitor Store Company
Rose Kreier
Miss Kreier
Schmidlapp
Avon Exchange
Gibson Hotel
Exchange
Highland Avenue
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New Corporation
Holters
Flames Ogurgh
BARGE
Doepkes
Gilbert Bettman
Opeed Record
Charles Cramer
New York University
William Wolf Smith
Hines
Charles Crane
Carter
Stranger
New York City
Uncle Sam
Dean
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