Cincinnati Curiosities Quotes

“William Devou Jr. owned half the buildings in Cincinnati’s red-light district and donated the income to Covington for a park. From Cincinnati Post, December 27, 1912.”
― Greg Hand, Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa's Naked Ride & More

“The Cincinnati Gazette of July 30, 1881, in a typical attack, thundered, “There are upon the shelves of the Public Library, intended for general circulation, books of an improper character full of moral poison.…The road to ruin begins, in many cases, right at the counter of the Public Library, an institution sustained by taxation and under the control of the Board of Education.”
― Greg Hand, Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa's Naked Ride & More

“William C. Smith, in his delightful book Queen City Yesterdays,”
― Greg Hand, Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa's Naked Ride & More

“plus Jocko, the monkey mascot of the Cincinnati Reds,”
― Greg Hand, Cincinnati Curiosities: Healing Powers of the Wamsley Madstone, Nocturnal Exploits of Old Man Dead, Mazeppa's Naked Ride & More