City Engineer Krug Leads Cincinnati Postwar Revival
Postwar return to normalcy and Cincinnati's finances fuels a busy reconstruction drive led by City Engineer Frank S. Krug aided by Mayor Galvin and Service Director Hornberger. Contracts target Millcreek Duck Creek nuisances main arteries and a new McMillan Street bridge. Rapid Transit plans advance to connect interurbans and rail lines, with canal removal in sight. River improvements funded by Longworth backing promise upgraded wharf and revived river trade. The Republican team keeps expert Krug followers in place to drive progress.
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Galvin
Hornberger
Millcreek
Duck Creek
Central Avenue
Fourth Street
Liberty Street
McMillan Street
Reading Road
Victory in Gallia County School Desegregation Suit
Cleveland Gazette reports a landmark case in Gallipolis where attorney Charles R. Doll led a suit against the Board of Education to end Jim Crow high school segregation. The court ruled the high school status is determined by residence, allowing Black students to attend Gallia Academy High School, signaling broader desegregation potential and urging equal educational access.
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Chas. RK. Doll
Ohio
Gallipolis
O. J. W. Scott
U. S. Army
Union High School
W. A. Cousins
Lincoln Elementary
Claude Alexander
Wilbert Howell
Gallia Academy
Board of Education
Charles R. Doll
Columbus
Court of Common Pleas
Circuit Court
Ironton
Two Murders Lead to Life Terms for Evans in Jersey City
Charles Evans of Springfield Illinois eighteen year old deserter from the navy, who confessed to two murders, is sentenced in Jersey City to life imprisonment for each crime with the sentences to run concurrently. He killed a man during a robbery and later shot a policeman who attempted arrest.
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Jersey City
N. J
Chas. Evans
Springfield
Ill
Navy
Evans
Lynching at public square cited after jail break
A mob broke into a jail and burned a Black man tied to a post in the public square. The fire consumed the body in about 40 minutes as hundreds watched, including many women, while an appeal from the sentence had been filed, prompting calls for a national anti lynching law.
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Hillsboro
Texas
Williams
South
Mos
U. S
Cooties and Pestilence Warn Returning Soldiers Threaten U.S.
Health Commissioner Dr Copeland warns that returning soldiers may bring pestilences home three diseases are trench fever typhus and relapsing fever spread by body lice the cootie is now a daily topic in lectures books and hospitals questions arise about preventing entry at ports and safeguarding quarantines after wars lice have caused social upheaval and even divorce in the past
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New York
Copeland
United States
New Theatre Planned in Downtown Colored District
A new theatre is slated to open this summer in the heart of the downtown Colored district. Indications suggest a splendid location and first class quality in every respect.
Has Made Good. 325th Field Signal Battalion on the move
A unit of the American Army en route to America, the 325th Field Signal Battalion of the 2nd Army Division, stands as the army's sole color coded signal unit.
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America
325Th Field Signal
2Nd Army
Clermont Man Sells Tobacco At High Mark
Laurel Ohio January 7 Mr John White a successful truck and tobacco farmer hauled his tobacco to the Planters Tobacco House Augusta Ky on New Year s Day At the opening sales on the 2nd his was the first crop on the market and averaged 42 per hundred pounds His best basket sold at 58 and his lowest at 26 The average for the day was 24 per hundred White s tobacco averaged over Your Union 590 per acre He had 19 acres under cultivation and is a respected colored citizen of the state He notes Kentucky buyers are taking land at 100 per acre.
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Laurel
Ohio
John White
Planters Tobacco House
Augusta
White
Our Girls Wanted at Raub and Mack Shirt Factory
An advertisement urges colored and white girls to work at the Raub and Mack Shirt Factory on Sycamore Street 799 11, promising equal pay, clean facilities, a new dining room, short hours, training while paid, and a safer, respectable option to domestic service. The copy praises employers and urges immediate action with a moral appeal.
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Sycamore St
Forum to Address War Committee Member Sunday
The Forum will be addressed to a member of the War Committee Council of National Defense on Sunday January 26 at 4 p m in Part e House N E Z corner Eighth and Mount street.
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War Committee
Council of National Defense
Parte House
N. EZ. Cor
Eighth and
Mount Street
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Cincinnati
Frank S. Krug
The
Rapid Transit Commission
Gram
Ohio River
Longworth
Congress
Republican Party
Lincoln School
Hts
Gallia Academy High School
Wilbert R. Howell
Lincoln
Cleveland Gazette
Clermont Man
John T. White
Mack Bros
Raith & Mack
the Forum
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