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Grant’s boyhood home is restored
DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com Ulysses S. Grant’s boyhood home in Georgetown, Ohio, reopened this month after a $1.4 million restoration that has returned the home to how it appeared in 1839, the year Grant left for the West Point military...
Posted: 4/26/2013 8:34 AM in Our History
Rixey has a long HOF legacy
Southpaw won 179 games from 1921-33 By Mike Dyer mdyer@enquirer.com Before Eppa Rixey heard of his election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in January 1963, his 10-year-old grandson Eppa Rixey IV answered the phone call that delivered the news. “It seemed...
Posted: 4/25/2013 7:58 AM in Our History
‘Supermarket Ambush’ shook town
Exhibit lays out history behind bloody 1957 police shootout By John Johnston jjohnston@enquirer.com The bullet-riddled bodies had been removed from the supermarket by the time Charles Hicks arrived for work. Even so, “It wasn’t a pretty sight,” Hicks,...
Posted: 4/24/2013 8:34 AM in Our History
Reds turned green for St. Pat’s
DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com The Cincinnati Reds started a baseball tradition on March 17, 1978, by donning green uniforms for St. Patrick’s Day. General Manager Dick Wagner had special uniforms ordered from their outfitter, Koch Sporting...
Posted: 4/24/2013 8:24 AM in Our History
Judge Landis cleaned up baseball
DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis had a reputation as an iron-handed, independent ruler when he was chosen as the first commissioner of baseball in 1920 to clean up the game after the infamous Black Sox Scandal....
Posted: 4/17/2013 11:51 AM in Our History
Gateway to the Old Northwest
18th century MariettaThe first permanent American settlement of the Northwest Territory officially began at Marietta, Ohio on April 7, 1788.General Rufus Putnam and 48 men arrived on flatboats and named the new city "Marietta" after Queen Marie Antoi...
Posted: 4/7/2013 10:24 AM in Gehio
Hobnob with William Howard Taft April 7
By Jackie Demaline and Janelle Gelfand Well – hang out with a life-size wax figure of the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). Madame Tussauds’ wax Taft (part of the wax museum’s...
Posted: 4/5/2013 1:29 PM in Our History
The Place of the Devil Wind
National Weather Service photo of the F5 tornadoI didn't live in Ohio when this tragedy happened but the very mention of this event strikes fear in many Southwestern Ohio residents. A super outbreak of 148 tornadoes occurred in 13 states beginning on
Posted: 4/3/2013 11:53 AM in Gehio
Our History: Enquirer has adapted over its 172-year history
By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com The Enquirer on Sunday, March 10, 2013, was the final one to be printed in the traditional broadsheet size. On March 11, The Enquirer debuted a new compact edition, designed to be easier to hold and easier to read. Print...
Posted: 3/29/2013 11:45 AM in Our History
Cartoonist Jim Borgman won Pulitzer Prize
DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com The day before The Enquirer’s 150th anniversary in 1991, cartoonist Jim Borgman received a call to announce he had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Among the topics of his cartoons...
Posted: 3/29/2013 7:54 AM in Our History
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