Loss of Monroe home highlights forgotten American memory
A critical column laments the failed local effort to preserve James Monroe's Prince Street mansion in New York. It argues national heritage should trump local neglect and suggests preserving a Virginia Monroe home as a lasting memorial, criticizing America’s overall lack of historic preservation.
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Prince Street
New York City
James Monroe
Monroe
New York
Virginia
America
Monticello
Reform Fails as Tent Caterpillars Doomed Neighborly Trust
James J. Montague recounts his failed campaign to eradicate tent caterpillars in his neighborhood. He seeks help, persuades others, and conducts fires and torching of nests, but neighbors object and he faces legal bills, moving away seems likeliest end. The piece, written in 1925, satirizes reform zeal and the limits of neighborly action.
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the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Haste and Modern Life Wear on the American Body
A reflective column argues that faster living accelerates mortality, labeling a coined illness Americanitis. It cites Dr William S Sadler and warns against overwork and high living pressure while noting social quirks from elevator etiquette to tennis star Lenglen and Hollywood odds in stardom.
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William S. Sadler
Gorgas Memorial Institute
German Catholic Society Convention Draws Crowds to Cincinnati
Five decades ago thousands from nearby and distant states attended the National German Catholic Society annual convention in Cincinnati. Knights of St George and St John marched, a street parade filled the afternoon, vespers rang at St. John and St. Francis churches, and Bishop McQuaid spoke on Education at the Grand Opera House amid May Festival bunting. Also noted were security efforts against pickpockets, a Shakespeare theater project in Stratford on Avon, and a retrial ordered in the Covington murder case after a Kentucky court voided a prior verdict.
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National
German Catholic Society
Knights of St. George
Twenty Years Ago in Cincinnati Highlights
The Commercial Tribune files recount Local history with the Associated Organizations grant debate over a perpetual C L and N Railway franchise requiring Deer Creek tunnel completion. Other items note the Society for the Suppression of Vice’s 48 convictions, a court injunction against the Iron Workers, and civic incidents in Cincinnati and Cleveland.
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Associated Organizations
C., L. & N. Railway
A. J. Conroy
Deer Creek
Society For the Suppression of Vice
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
W. J. Breed
Poor Food Badly Eaten Is Basic Cause Of Ills
Dr. J. H. Tilden of Denver argues poor eating habits drive most illnesses. He urges simple diet, thorough chewing, and avoidance of fancy, processed foods, claiming germs need suitable soil to thrive and praising hard whole wheat bread as ideal nourishment.
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J. H. Tilden
Denver
Colo
Tilden Health School
City
Odeon
Tilden
Parliament to boost Hindenburg pay and expenses
The Reichstag Ways and Means Committee approved raising the President's annual salary from 54 000 to 60 000 marks and increasing the expense allowance from 54 000 to 120 000 marks per year, lifting total compensation to 480 000 gold marks.
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Hindenburg
Associated Press
Berlin
Ways and Means Committee
Reichstag
Fish, SIR, ON RUM ROW! Coast Guard probes contraband cargo
The May 16 report describes a Coast Guard inspection off Montauk Point aboard the cutter Pequot. Supercargo of the Liverpool NC schooner General Pau denies liquor aboard while a crew shows a fish as cargo. Officials say only twelve ships remain of eighty rum row vessels amid a broad blockade, with additional seizures near Newport News where a tug and two barges were searched but found empty.
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Associated Press
New York
Hake
Coast Guard
Pequot
Montauk Point
General Pau
Liverpool
N.C
Pellegrini
Atlantic
Stephen S. Yeandle
Billard
Nantucket Light
Atlantic City
mid-Atlantic
Rui
Yeandle
Long Island
New England
New Jersey
New York- New Jersey
Fire Island
Nantucket
Newport News
Plum blossoms symbolize women in Japan’s plum gardens
In a February note from Kamakura Japan Mock Joya describes plum blossoms as a sign of women virtues. She notes plum gardens are popular for viewing especially on moonlit winter nights and explains old gardens once produced plum vinegar for the dyeing industry though now the vinegar is no longer used.
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Mock Joya
Kamakura
Japan
Prophet of Doom Purchases Car After Prophesied End
Robert Reidt known as the Apostle of Doom bought back the nine year old automobile he had sold in anticipation of the world’s end. He paid 35 dollars for it, the first money he earned from his prophesy. He had previously sold all his belongings. The event was reported by the New York World News Service from New York on May 16.
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New York World News Service
New York
Robert Reidt
Apostle of Doom
Sehdeh
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Ohio
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J. O. Halliwell Phillips
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New Orleans
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Williamstown
Grant County
Harvey Myers
Charles F. Williams
L. Schreiber & Sons
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Iron Workers’ Union
Fanny Field
Western Unitarian Conference
Cleveland
Sammy Silverstein
Central Avenue
City Hospital
Sammy
Ohio Society of the United States Daughters of 1812
Gibson House
T. L. A. Greve
Stone Lake Ice Company
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Perkins
Weil
Wade Ellis
University of Cincinnati
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Daniel Laurence
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Charles McMicken
City of
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