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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1925
Page
10
Engineers surveyed the Covington Water Works site at Ft. Thomas for a proposed dry well. C. F. Moore Company of Newport, low bidder, will start receiving material today. Petition sponsors have not filed suit. city officials deemed petitions invalid. Bid for dry well and electric pump was 126000 dollars.
Helen's Babies starring Baby Peggy opens a two day run at the Liberty with a comedy and news reel. Conrad Nagel and Norma Shearer star in Excuse Me Friday and Saturday with an Our Gang comedy and a news reel. Esmeralda and Webb marimba and xylophone act headline today. Leonard and Barnett perform with two girls and a piano Thursday to Saturday. Liberty Ragamuffins play new Broadway hits as other attractions.
The will of William K. Keckeley of Florence Kentucky was probated yesterday. His estate is divided equally among four children Dora K Taylor May K Taylor Anna K Wilson and Louis K Dunkie with Ernest B Dunkie as executor. Edward T Rutledge of 112 Wallace Avenue left his estate to his brother Henry Arthur Rutledge who qualified as executor.
Dr. L H Crisler Meat and Milk Inspector warned local milk shippers to obtain permits this month under city ordinance. About one third had complied. He will ask the Board of Commissioners to approve a $1 permit fee after June 1 as the Health Board aims to complete its shipper list this month.
Covington Rotary Club bestowed fountain pens as prizes for the best essays on industrial conditions. Dr. J. Robert Kelley, governor of the Eighteenth Rotary District, distributed the awards to seven students: William Hoppenjans Walter Hartman Paul Haney Howard Snively Louis H. McDonnold Jack E Wert and James D. Martin.
William Sehlhorst resigned from the Covington Police Department due to ill health from train injuries. Albert Gruber, 25, of 1210 West Twelfth Street, is reported missing since last Saturday, last seen near Pike Street ruins. Building permits issued to Herman Sauer for an $8500 brick residence at 513 Wallace Avenue and to Newell Massey for a $4000 brick residence at the southeast corner of Corporation and Glenway streets. Kentucky Court of Appeals upholds a State Motor Bus Department licensing law for buses carrying five or more passengers.
Proposals for delivery of 60 tons of run of the mine bituminous coal due May 25 1925 in Newport Kentucky are invited in duplicate to the Campbell County Courthouse Room 7. Sealed proposals must show coal type and be marked Proposals to Coal. Commissioners reserve right to reject bids. Signed Courthouse Commissioners D W Fahlbush President.
Radio fans can recharge 12 or 13 dry cell batteries using a new Volta-Tonic compound at 7 cents each, claiming savings over 60 percent. The supplier offers shipping anywhere at 75 cents per bottle.
Covington police say detectives Drees and Pickett arrested Clarence Neaves R M Woollery and Clifford Blacker for a March 23 robbery at E B Held’s jewelry store in Falmouth. Neaves faces stealing charges while Woollery and Blacker are charged with grand larceny. Jewelry found at Neaves’ home was identified as Loot.
Covington Eagles completed arrangements for a Sunday parade to greet Otto P. DeLuse Grand Worthy President. The procession from the Suspension Bridge will be led by Al Schild's Band with 200 candidates and 300 members marching. Initiatory exercises will be at Fagies Home followed by a speech and dinner.
Kenton Circuit Court heard Andrew Meeker sue the Cincinnati New port and Covington Street Car Co for 35000 damages claiming Sylvia Meeker was thrown to the car floor when it halted at Fifth street and Madison avenue last March 16. Minnie Behrman and others sue Emmanuel Hodes minor for settlement of Michael Behrman estate involving Sterritt avenue property, seeking sale and reinvestment. A jury found Floyd Taxicab Co not liable in Catherine Finnegan administratrix case for 25000 damages from the January 20 fatal taxi crash at Fourth and Main, caused by driver Clark Lucas during a storm.
A listing shows individuals and residences: Charles C. Cohen of Cincinnati, Esther Bloom of Covington, George Napier of Covington, Ella Morrison of Covington, Elmer R. Salter of Cincinnati, and Margaret L. King of Cincinnati.
A decree from the King announces the birth of a baby at the Royal Castle in Stockholm. Crown Princess Louise, married to Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus in 1923, is praised, with prayers asked in Swedish churches for her welfare. Louise, formerly Princess Louise of Britain, is daughter of Prince Louis Mountbatten. The Crown Prince has four sons and a daughter from his first wife who died in 1920.
Funeral services for John T. Ridgway 41 of Epworth Heights, formerly of 2517 Williams Ave Norwood, killed when he ran onto tracks near his home Monday morning will be at Worhis chapel Lockland at 2 pm and a second service at Spring Grove Cemetery chapel at 2 30 pm. Ridgway formerly managed the City Hall branch of the Union Trust Company until two months ago. He had suffered a nervous condition for five years and disappeared on March 7 before wandering to the police station three days later seeking identification.
Miss Violet Marcellus and Miss Irene Marcellus, two New York models, sisters, are to share with another legatee the estate of A. Sarath Kumar Ghosh who died February 11 1920. The estate valued under 5000 dollars, with seven relatives in India neglecting the will, and Ghosh left his Oriental robes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sacred Heart Church Bellevue announces its golden jubilee on Sunday May 24 with Rev A J Roéll and Rev A De Jaco leading. The event was postponed last November due to delays in altars and shrines from Sicily. The jubilee committee and parish societies will finalize plans at the schoolhouse with Catholic Order of Foresters and Knights of St John participating.
Walter Bradford of 218 East Fifth Street Newport was charged with grand larceny in Campbell County Circuit Court after his acquittal on another grand larceny count. He had faced an attempted auto theft on November 11, 1924, and a second warrant charged him with stealing a case of liquor from Old 76 Distillery on Licking Pike. Bradford denied both charges and claimed innocence and alibi.
John Hess aged 28 of 205 Short Taylor street West Covington was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to sixty days for possessing and selling liquor and thirty days for resisting an officer after being arrested near the C and O Bridge. A second man Will Yo wl 54 of 626 Russell street was fined 100 dollars and given thirty days after charges of liquor possession and a loaded revolver. the liquor charge was dismissed.
York street public school will get a $200 appropriation for a new wading pool and playground upkeep. A separate $100 was approved for a Memorial Day parade band requested by the American Legion post and memorial committee. A painters union protest over city workers painting street signs was filed and referred to officials.
Fred Wagner of 1006 Saratoga Newport was fined 10 dollars and costs by Judge Moore for disorderly conduct after wife Clara Wagner filed the warrant. Walter Gleason of Court Place Newport had his case for breaking and entering a storeroom continued when the witness did not appear. John Brossart of Cincinnati was fined 3 dollars and costs for failing to observe a stop sign. Charles Burgin of Bellevue was fined 3 dollars and costs for driving the wrong way on a one way street. A personal damages suit by William Sutton against Andrew Donaldson was dismissed. Alexander Malkowitz of Flinchtown Ky was arrested for causing a disturbance near the Andrews steel plant.
William M. Donaldson transfers a lot in Ft Thomas to Carroll Duncan for six thousand stamps. E Watson transfers a lot in Newpay to Howard Myers for seven thousand stamps. Werner Wallace transfers a lot in Bellevue to Minnie Wallace for one dollar. Henry Fahrenholz transfers a Ft Thomas lot to Florence E Judd for one thousand stamps.
Fragmentary list of names and places including Albert Stubbs of St Paris Ohio Florence Draper of Christiansburg Ohio James M Kenneyoisse Hamilton Dorothy H Harrison Hamilton Me Cincinnati and Cincinnati names in a residence notice.
The final graft case against seven First District policemen ended with Policeman William Hammel's resignation accepted by Safety Director Charles E. Tudor. Another officer Frederick Dieckroeger received a thirty day suspension for failing to arrest contraband liquor at 3457 Southside Avenue. Frank Mitchell and John P. Steinweiss will be honorably retired Saturday for physical disability.
Ben L. Bryant, a senior in the Medical College of the University of Cincinnati, was elected President of the Student Council. He is the first Medical College student to hold that post. Senior Class officers elected include Louis Nippert as President Sophia Moore as Vice President Emily Reis Secretary John Humphries Treasurer Virginia Crary Women's Vigilance Committee Chairman Gordon Buchanan Men's Vigilance Committee Chairman.
The article notes ongoing interest in long bishop sleeves across summer fashion, with peasant frocks and dinner dances embracing loose, embroidered sleeves. It mentions scalloped edges and chiffons, citing a recent collection where long sleeves dominated ensembles. Four nurses graduate from Mercy Hospital School for Nurses in Hamilton with speakers from public health and Marquette University.
Madge Burton a twenty year old telephone operator dreams beyond switchboard life. She attends dances with Jack Hampton and Ted Duncan but loves Emerson Tyndal a forty five year old rich bachelor and firm president.
Madge seeks mood lift in hats but fails as she ponders Emerson Tyndall’s Maine trip and an upcoming club ball with Ted Duncan. The encounter spurs her to accept the date, hoping a surprise at the ball will restore meaning to her life.
Oxford Ohio May 12 Villages backing the sale of the electric light plant to the Union Gas and Electric Company of Cincinnati were pleased with Attorney General C C Crabbe’s ruling that they may contract and that rates are protected for ten years. The contract provides readjustment after the initial decade.
A reader asks whether to take a general tonic before or after meals. The adviser replies that taking it after meals is preferable for someone with a weak stomach and reports the reader has been taking it half an hour before meals without good tolerance.
Reader questions on medicinal hygiene and sanitation are answered by Dr Rosai S Copeland. If a question cannot be published in this column, he will write privately to the reader with a self addressed stamped envelope. Copyright 1925 Newspaper Feature Service Inc.
Adele Garrison portrays a homemaker recounting how Mrs. Ticer assists with cooking and tray service for Mrs. Underwood while Margaret Graham cares for her mother-in-law amid kitchen camaraderie. The scene shows cheerful efficiency and mutual support in domestic life.
An appeal invites readers to send twelve cents in silver or stamps to receive a current Spring and Summer fashion book for 1925. The notice emphasizes up to date styles and domestic fashion trends.
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