Cincinnati Magazine
February 9, 2021
Mrs. Cecil Cramer of Cincinnati was having an unhappy Valentineâs Day on February 14, 1908. She was newly divorced from her husband on grounds of failure to provide for her and their child. The postman arrived that day spouting effusive apologies. Because the address and postage were correct, he was obliged to deliver to her an offensive âvalentineâ from her ex-husband in the form of a plump, juicy, sarcastic lemon.
Fresh citrus was an uncommon medium for correspondence back then, but sarcasm was abundant. In 1908, every woman dreaded the prospect of receiving a âcomicâ valentine.
Even little boys dreaded the arrival of a sarcastic âcomicâ valentine. Young women refused to admit they ever received a âcomic.â
Cincinnati Magazine
The Cincinnati Post [October 6]:
âWe have right here in this city a daily newspaper unfit to be read by any human being, much less a Christian. Every day it is filled with reading matter that is filthy, nasty, obscene and abominable. The amount of injury that paper is doing right in our midst is incalculable. I beg you, fathers and mothers, who have the welfare of your children at heart, do not let their young minds be polluted by allowing them to read that vile sheet.â
The publication in question? None other than
The Cincinnati Enquirer. The offending material? A âpersonalsâ column in the classified advertising section.
Cincinnati Magazine
January 12, 2021
Gather round, youngsters, and hear tell about a vintage Cincinnati tradition long consigned to the dustbin of history. I refer to the old Safety Lane, gone 40 years this year.
Every Cincinnati motorist of a certain age remembers entering the gantlet of automotive inspection with not a bit of nostalgia.
Photograph courtesy of National Archives
Time was when every automobile cruising Cincinnati thoroughfares was required to show a current sticker proving that it had passed an inspection affirming it was in a condition to be operated safely. A burned-out headlight, a silent horn, faulty brakes, and even shaky alignment earned a temporary tag, giving the driver a week to repair the problem.
Cincinnati Magazine
December 15, 2020
Like a meteor briefly flashing through the heavens, Laura Bromwell caught the imagination of Americans in the heady days of aviation following World War I. Her short-lived but inspirational career began in Cincinnati.
Image digitized by the Smithsonian Institution Air & Space Museum
She was a farm girl from Switzerland County, Indiana, where she was born in 1897, the seventh of eight children. When Bromwell was 12, her father died when he landed on his head falling out of the hayloft.
A few years later, Laura moved to Cincinnati and found work as a cashier in a Fourth Street restaurant. One day, a customer learned that sheâd dived 50 feet into one of Indianaâs flooded quarries, and he suggested she would never jump from the Suspension Bridge into the Ohio River. When the customer backed his statement with a $20 bet, Bromwell immediately took him up on the wager.
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