The Forgotten Voice of 凯 Irion

凯 Irion is a name that many today are not aware of; however, in the early 1940s, she was the talk of Cincinnati. 凯, who became a paraplegic after being injured in a car accident in the late 1930s, was the first stay-at-home radio host to go live over the airwaves on Cincinnati’s popular radio station, WSAI-WLW.

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The Spanish Flu

In the midst of the 1918 influenza pandemic, Cincinnati’s Mayor made the decision to give up. There was pressure from businesses, 轿车, clergy and citizens to allow them to get back to normal daily life. How did the city get to this point and what happened before and after?

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The Long Arm of Prohibition: The F. L. Emmert Company’s Struggle to Survive

Savior Maier and his son-in-law, F. L. Emmert, opened a saloon at the corner of Clifton and Vine streets in 1881. In the day-to-day operation of the saloon, Maier and Emmert learned that brewers were struggling to deal with the large quantities of wet mash, 或者用过的谷物, a byproduct of brewing. Seeing an opportunity, Emmert changed the focus of his business and started dealing in spent brewer’s grain.

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