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Lafcadio Hearn gave Enquirer readers the ghastly, gruesome and grotesque

DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com Ghost stories crept into Lafcadio Hearn’s writing throughout his career, whether as a reporter for The Cincinnati Enquirer or a chronicler of myths and...

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Times-Star Building is news icon

DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com Cincinnati has been home to dozens of newspapers, even a few in German. The grand Times-Star Building at 800 Broadway, Downtown, is perhaps the best...

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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...

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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,...

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Recalling Seckatary Hawkins

The Seckatary Hawkins Club is holding it’s second National Meeting on June 15 at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park, Covington. The “clever little fat boy,” a popular character around the...

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‘Seck’ was a sensation

Generations later, the club carries on By Sara Gadzala Enquirer contributor They were a spirited posse of boys whose fictional escapades, created by Covington native Robert Franc Schulkers, led to...

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Ray Zwick, 75, was Enquirer’s history keeper

Lives Remembered By Sharon Coolidge and Jeff Suess The Enquirer library is home to Cincinnati history. Today, for the most part, that history is stored electronically, accessible with just the touch of...

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Enquirer Reds reporter coached Ohio State football

DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com When Jack Ryder, the Enquirer’s Reds scribe for 32 years, died June 5, 1936, the paper ran tributes from Powel Crosley Jr. to Ernie Lombardi touting...

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Caroline Williams and the art of the city

By John Johnston jjohnston@enquirer.com Caroline Williams, who was born in Covington 105 years ago this month, possessed a talent that allowed her to share her love of Cincinnati with countless people....

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Gettysburg Address wasn’t a hit everywhere – including here

DID YOU KNOW? By Jeff Suess jsuess@enquirer.com Last month, the Patriot-News newspaper in Harrisburg, Pa., retracted its editorial from 150 years ago that called President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg...

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