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... that James W. Faulkner, political journalist and former Cincinnati Enquirer Newspaperman founded the Ohio Legislative Correspondents Association and was its first president?
... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
...that Buttercup Dickerson, who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds, is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball?
...that Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival?
... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"?
...that Jack Blott, an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines, had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?

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