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...Cincinnati, Ohio...
...distance. On Dam 35 the judges grew prematurely alert, fingered their watches. Up the river, belching like twin-snouted dragons, sloshing along at an uproarious nine-knots-per-hour came the doughty Sternwheelers Tom Greene and Betsy Ann at the grim finish of a 21-mile race upstream from Cincinnati. Long before they could see which was ahead the crowd could hear the roar of the laboring engines. Children cringed, fearing an explosion. Old rivermen felt young again at the familiar sound...
...held up the Pittsburgh Club, last week had his thumb dislocated by a fast liner. If he is long on the bench, the Chicago Club should be the next champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into a fist fight with a Cincinnati player), Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. The Chicago Club has three first rate pitchers (Guy Bush, Charlie Root, Pat Malone) precisely two more than most of its competitors can muster...
...ballotings. Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, Chicago, head of a chain of candy stores, had opportunity to compare business methods with Miss Elsie Flake, "sandwich queen" of Winston-Salem, N. C. Miss Marion McClench, prime insurance saleswoman of Detroit, could talk shop with Miss Ella Schroeder, successful diamond merchant of Cincinnati. Tampa's Postmistress Elizabeth Rainard had a look at Miss Emma Coldiron of Walla Walla, Wash., operator of a de luxe bus line. Great was the applause when Mrs. Eva Hunt Dockery, of Boise, Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member...
Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters...