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...library exhibit, which will continue through February 20, consists largely of loans from Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr., '27, of Cincinnati, Ohio; S. J. Bolan, of New York City, dealer in Russian books; and Princess Xenia, of Russia, at present a resident of Syosset, Long Island, New York...
...like an orange going down an ostrich's neck. Fortnight ago it was up at Wheeling, Portsmouth, Cincinnati. Last week it moved slowly down through Louisville and Evansville to Cairo. But the Ohio River, unlike an ostrich's neck, remained swollen after the orange had passed, for floods recede slowly...
...Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest portion, from 16 in. to over 20 in., fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point in upper Arkansas. The distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood of the Mississippi is not the torrential rush of water from denuded hillsides, but is the slowly rising, long continued outpour...
...island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
...with the floods after they were underway, that the Army's calculations of the "super-flood" for which its levee system was built were very far astray because still higher flood stages were actually being recorded at Cairo and below. Fingers were pointed at Dayton, 50 miles above Cincinnati, which, after the disastrous flood of 1913 in the Miami Valley, spent $30,000,000 building five reservoirs to impound headwaters and release them only as fast as the streams could carry them away. Result : Dayton had no flood this year...