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...Cincinnati, Duke Poao Kahana-moku of Hawaii, who has been on every U. S. Olympic swimming team since 1912, arrived by airplane for the final trials. Two men qualified in each of the 100-metre free style heats. In his heat Kahanamoku finished third, pulled himself wearily out of the pool, shook the water out of ears, looked gloomily at his muscular legs as if dissatisfied with the black sunburn which he has spent 42 pleasant years acquiring. Said he about his legs: "They were O. K. for 75 metres-after that it was just too bad." Not greatly surprised...
Julius Howland Barnes, good friend of President Hoover, onetime chairman of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, board chairman of Insuranshares Corp., was elected chairman of Missouri State Life Insurance Co. (assets: $154,900,000), succeeding Theobald Felss of Cincinnati, who voluntarily retired...
...into the country. The excursionists then hike about 20 mi., meet a return train. Last winter Boston & Maine tried such trips for ski enthusiasts, running along branch lines until a good spot was found. This summer Southern Ry. (U. S.) has tried the plan. The first trip started from Cincinnati, cost $1.75. Passengers danced in a baggage car, got off at Lexington, Ky., motored to High Bridge, fed, frolicked and were brought back. The second trip was from Washington to Charlottesville where a barbecue of roast cows and pigs was held, swimming and riding offered. Other roads are expected...
...railroad news of last week was Cincinnati Southern Railway, only municipally-owned steam line in the U. S. The C. S. runs 336 miles between Cincinnati and Chattanooga. It was begun in 1869; the first train ran eight years later. It crosses the Kentucky River on the first cantilever bridge in the U. S., long the proud boast of Cincinnati. In 1881 the road was leased to Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway which later subleased it to Southern Railway. Cincinnati receives $1,259,000 a year in rentals for its railway and its voters have refused to allow...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...