Youth Movement Dims Old Roles as Kids Rule the World
In this 1925 column James J. Montague argues youth culture reshapes family life and social norms. He notes grandchildren steer fashion, dancing, and bridge, while parents adapt to keep pace with modern entertainment and financial power shifting toward the younger generation. The piece satirically traces how children and money redefine respect and household authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Kid
Maud Muller
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Great Diamond Joins List Of Famous Gems
A 110 carat diamond unearthed near Gong Gong in Kimberley, South Africa, by a digger who had found another large stone two weeks earlier for 4500. The article notes South Africa now leads in diamond production, compares African and Indian diamonds, and recounts famed stones including Cullinan Koh i Noor and Orloff with their royal connections and histories.
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New York Times
Kimberley
South Africa
India
Brazil
Golconda
Russia
Frederick Wells
Edward VII
Union of South Africa
Asscher
Amsterdam
Edward
England
Sultan Baber
Nadir
Shah
Persia
Nadir Shah
Ahmed Shah
Cabul
Ahmed
Shah Zemaim
Tower of London
Orloff
Seringham
Madras
London
Prince Orloff
Catherine II
Who's at Fault in the Golf Trip Incident
A tired businessman returning from the Country Club hits a parked truck under construction on a concrete bridge. He seeks the driver but is told the truck has no driver and has been parked for two days. The report frames a humorous misidentification from Everybody's Magazine.
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Pacas
Molly
Peter
Trianon Cafe
Mother
Father
Pie-Plate Mystery At Smoky Pete's Quick Lunch
Lone Wolf enters Smoky Pete's and demands lemon pie. One slice proves insufficient as he buys a whole pie and devours it with gusto. The owner, amused by the crust, asks the Chief how the pie tasted while noting the missing paper pie plate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Wolf
Smoky Pete
Everybody's Magazine
The Church for Honest Sinners Parable by Meredith Nicholson
The piece notes a parable of a woman who built a temple for honest sinners to seek salvation and solace. It contrasts her failed venture with rival sanctity and cites Fosdick’s vision of a church for honest saints. The column argues humans are not millennial in outlook and reflects on religious tolerance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meredith Nicholson
Earth
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Dawes to Carry the Case to the Country
Vice President Dawes, freed by the Senate adjournment, plans to take his reform message to the public during the recess. He aims to press for Senate rule changes and urges action rather than inaction, insisting the country is better served by doing the needed reforms.
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Dawes
Senate
Washington
Capitol
Women Leading in Science Defies Old Taunts at Yale Appointment
The piece notes Miss Elizabeth Gardner’s appointment as a chemistry research assistant at Yale as proof of women advancing in science. It cites a 5 percent representation of women among 15,000 chemists across 48 states and references ongoing progress in other fields alongside remarks on Harvard’s Charles W. Eliot and seasonal sports mentions.
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Patent Office
Elizabeth Gardner
Yale University
United States
Fifty Years Ago in Cincinnati Highlights
A Cincinnati roundup recalls a Sunday sermon urging support for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with remarks from Rev. Dr Boynton and Apjones. Resolutions were adopted by the Celtic Society for John Mitchell's death, and Cumminsville Republicans announced local candidates. The Newport Belle ferry broke free, sank a coal barge, and narrowly avoided bridge damage.
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Boynton
Vine Street Congregational Church
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Apjones
Ritchie
John Meager
Peter J. Fox
John J. Gallagher
Luke Clarke
Celtic Society
John J. Mitchell
Ulster
Newport
Queen City Dramatic Society Organized with Officers
The Queen City Dramatic Society was organized with officers W. G. Hart President Ed Hand Vice President J J Ni land Treasurer James Quinn and William McKinzie Secretaries. The Y M C A having recently inaugurated meetings among railroad employees held a service in a passenger car at Sixth and Harriet streets. Services were to continue each Sabbath at 3 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Queen City Dramatic Society
W. G. Hart
Ed Hand
J. J. Niland
James Quinn
William McKinzie
Sixth and Harriet Streets
Twenty Years Ago in Cincinnati A Tribune Flashback
Excerpts recount a heated murder trial summation between Thomas Shay and Prosecuting Attorney Hiram Rulison before Judge Swing. Other items include ice company mergers, partial ID of a Bloody Run sewer victim, adulteration arrests under the pure food act, a bunko sting, turf racing notes, and a New York trip to retrieve a deceased relative with a district school petition in New Burlington. Weather Rain.
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Thomas Shay
Fred Geiger
Hiram Rulison
Swing
Kinney
John Bohlander
Not Fair in a Bantering Market Scene
A grocer chides a coal dealer for unfair profit, arguing a pound of butter goes to the buyer while a ton of coal stays in the cellar. The coal dealer retorts that the situation is hardly fair, prompting a humorous exchange.
Headline: Modern hotel call system teased in Southern yarn
A man staying at a Southern town hotel asks to be called early. the porter explains in dialect that the modern invention is a bell button at the head of the bed. The humorous exchange ends with the porter promising to press the call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everybody's Magazine
Memory of a Naturalist Surveyor Moves a Reader
A letter from William A. Dickson recalls a Long Island surveyor who taught botany and bird lore. The pair wandered woods collecting arrowheads and stones while the professor lectured on birds and natural history, leaving lasting impressions after both passed away.
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William A. Dickson
Hancock
N. Y
Long Island
J. O Swift
By Press Publishing Co
Jazz and Radio No Aid to Insane
A New York Evening World piece by Beth McIlvaine argues that jazz harms the mentally ill, while stringed instruments and victrolas aid therapy at the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane. It notes preferred music, hospital dances, films with piano, and a planned community sing as part of treatment under Dr. Isham Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth McIlvaine
New York Evening World
Isham Harris
Brooklyn State Hospital For
Harris
Brooklyn State Hospital
Brooklyn Hospital
Brooklyn
Serena
Department of Occupational Therapy
A Little Talk on Thrift
A discussion explains thrift as wise spending not mere self denial. Saving diverts funds to useful channels and banks invest for future home farm business or other worthy purposes. Thrift balances saving and spending and drives continuous progress through prudent resource use.
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the Youth Movement
James J. Montague
Clemenceau
John D. Rockefeler
Grandma
Grandpa
Phillip
Mabel
John
Aia
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Ohio House
Cincinnati
Ship
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania
Payne
St. Paul’s M. E. Church
Cumminsville
Strong’s Hall
J. C. Bruckmann
Gabe Dirr
C. W. Whitsley
H. E. Harward
C. R. Henn
Hugh George
Millcreek Town
Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati Ice Company
Arctic Ice Company
Stone Lake Ice Company
Bloody Run
Lucy Fox
Mary Harris
Harrison, 9
Sweeney
Houlston
Third Street
Mose Goldblatt
Latonia
Corrigan-Condon
Northern Kentucky
Mose
Gordon Shillito
New York
Wallace Shillito
East
New Burlington
Probate
Thrift
S. W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
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