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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1925
Page
4
The Commercial Tribune published daily in Cincinnati Ohio announces its October 12 1925 issue. It lists publisher Harry W Brown and distribution points in New York City and mentions Associated Press affiliation.
An editorial argues against federal film censorship as a cure for moral decline. It warns such a move may mask illness rather than cure it and favors strengthening ethical standards and public conscience over new laws. It advocates relying on existing policing and self improvement rather than government control.
In 1925 modernist vs fundamentalist tension erupts over Bishop William Montgomery Brown of Galion Ohio found guilty of heresy. The church court ruling stands, with possible secular appeals pending, as debates on doctrine and state church relations unfold.
The Ohio Valley Improvement Association endorses a policy uniting river and rail shipping facilities. Municipalities should plan terminal programs to ease interchanges, benefiting all transport interests. The piece notes Cincinnati support, calls for cooperation over competition, and cites varied contemporary examples to illustrate favored lines of action.
Henry Ford aims to build a popular airplane for the masses while keeping both feet on the ground. The project signals Ford's foray into aviation while maintaining practical, steady progress.
A 1925 column by James J. Montague examines the balance between literal truth and poetic interpretation, reflecting on how writers use imagination to illuminate reality without sacrificing factual integrity. The essay weighs craft choices.
The poem laments ongoing battles with new boll weevil pests appearing as nature invents fresh bug threats. It contrasts earnest nature lovers with restless pest evolution and notes recurring cycles of extermination, new infestations, and diminishing blessings as farmers cope with evolving agricultural pests.
A fragmentary diary style column recounts visits with Noel Coward, Channing Pollock, and Beatrice Hereford, plus Mizner’s Broadway return and Fred Stone’s Star Ranch. It notes press agents, actors, a rich producer, and city life scenes including a door to door nightlife vignette in West Forty-seventh street.
From the Cincinnati Commercial files the Evangelical Ministerial Association met after summer break with Rev A Bowers as chairman and Rev A Ritchie as secretary. J Ben Renner received a gold medal at Turner Hall while George Rufer drew a life sentence for involvement in the grewsome tanyard murder. William Hay, Green Township pioneer, died on his farm after fifty years. Voters faced a constitutional amendment to add five associate justices to the Supreme Court to ease the docket as four to five year delays persisted. Weather was fair to cloudy.
Anna S Hall in Philadelphia urges the humane society to endorse execution for those helplessly injured or incurably ill. The Lady of the Fountain on the esplanade returns to duty after months of contractor wrangling and shabby treatment. A local vandal attacked altar clothes at St Ludwig's Church, and a prison escapeer faced danger amid a letter about a dying daughter. Weather: clear to cloudy 42-54 degrees.
A brief promotional item features Dr Charles A L Reed former president of the American Medical Association presenting guidance on personal welfare and success. The note emphasizes his professional authority and aims to encourage readers to follow his advice.
A magazine piece by Lady Mercy Greville compares human energy to an accumulator powered by the sun. It argues that daily sun and fresh air recharge the body while city soot hinders health. The writer praises the aristocrat's health propaganda and the Carry the Message to the Masses slogan.
A word for circle figures in en cyclopaedia forming the circle of arts and sciences. Abulpharagius compiled the first cyclopaedia in the Thirteenth Century. The cyclopaedia resembles a dictionary but differs by focusing on facts rather than definitions.
The myth centers on Minos II of Crete who pleases Neptune with a bull he refuses to sacrifice. The goddess causes Pasiphae to love the bull, producing the Minotaur. Daedalus builds the labyrinth to trap the monster who devours tributes until Theseus ends the ritual.
Elmer A. Sperry the Cortland inventor of the gyro stabilizer is celebrated on the day of his birth. Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore born in Athlone Ireland marks another birthday. Chester I. Long former Kansas senator and ABA president born in Perry County Pennsylvania.
Dorothy Day Dayton Jones documents the plight of rural young women seeking work in New York City. From theater booking offices to hotel and shop jobs, the piece shows low wages and brutal recruitment tactics, highlighting the dream vs. reality for podunk girls chasing opportunity.
On Lough Derg an island cave linked to St Patrick’s purgatory attracts Irish folk memory. The tale says St Patrick built a monastery at the entrance and an iron gate guarded the cave described by Henry of Salt rey. Critics doubt wonders while believers recall visions and quests across centuries.
The Methodist Board of Temperance warns New York is morally challenged yet Congress won’t act and boycotts are not endorsed. It critiques New York’s theater publishing industry and anti prohibition propaganda, warning of public backlash if Westerners and Southerners turn against the metropolis.
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