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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
19
An advertisement explains that chronic sores resist local treatments due to blood impurities. It claims Swift’s Specific (S S S) purifies the blood, heals sores from the bottom, and offers a free medical book. This Atlanta ad markets the medicine and urges readers to buy at drug stores.
A reader recounts a long standing foot sore that worsened until the entire foot was affected. After trying many remedies, use of 8.8.8 led to rapid improvement and the sore was cured as the poison left the blood. The writer endorses 8.8.8 for sores and ulcers.
Alma lodge number 290 in Elmwood City hosted 42 candidates from New Castle Wampum Youngstown and Beaver Falls for a Monday night initiation. The ceremony drew over 800 members and guests. the third degree will be given next Monday with visitors from Western Pennsylvania. Membership may exceed 350 by summer end.
The Hospital Lecture Committee presents the season’s last event on Thursday April 23 in the opera house. A home talent program features local residents with Henry W Stevenson of Pittsburg performing impersonations alongside a varied lineup including orchestra numbers, readings by Carrie Grandy and Miss Bessie McMullen, and a local quartet.
The Beaver Valley presbytery met in Ellwood City and voted to dissolve the Wampum church and sell its property. Rev. R. A. Kingan was elected moderator to succeed Rev. James A McDonald, with Rev. H ay re-elected clerk. Rev. R. H. Mulholland was chosen for ordination and installation in June. Reports included addresses by several reverends and the presiding Rev. D. Peae D. D. Funeral attendance for a niece of John H. and Jacob Smith was noted in Washington, PA.
Ellwood City youths Homer Christy and William Willis left town after a long goodbye to friends bound for the golden west. They plan a yearlong journey visiting Ohio, Chicago, the northwest and California, with a winter in the state, then returning through the southwest and possibly the south. They are members of Aerie 1246 F O E Blswood and were honored with an impromptu banquet Monday night.
Robert Davidson of Koppel, H. Moore of New Castle, Frank T. Lowry of Crescent avenue, and G. W. Hartman of McKeesport were in town yesterday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGuire of Koppel, Mrs. Arthur Brown of Wampum, Mrs. Wallace Pollock of North Se wickley, Louis Cohen of Johnstown visiting his son Arthur Cohen, Philip Brown and Walter Maines visiting Pittsburg, Mrs. Thomas White and daughter of Koppel visiting Ellwood yesterday, Mr. and Mrs. John Laughlin of Koppel calling on friends, Miss Anna Brenner visiting her brother A. L. Brenner, Mrs. W. J. Moore resigning as Standard Engineering stenographer effective May 1, and Emma Tippler returning to Milwaukee from visits with her brother.
In Cleveland the Independent Retail Grocers' association pursued court warrants against grocers who kept stores open on Sunday. Representatives demanded warrants for mayors and company heads, but Justice Murphy dismissed the request as impossible. Dozens of grocers listed faced warrants for alleged Sunday openings.
Governor Stuart has set June 2 as the execution date for Mike Holka, a Venango county murderer. Venango authorities will borrow Lawrence county's scaffold to carry out the death sentence.
Coal and ore boats on the Great Lakes began to move again for the first time since navigation closed last fall. Insurance on lake craft lapses over winter, crews increase as ore and coal move, and railroads expect higher tonnage. Prices for railroad dining car meals rise amid new two cent per mile passenger rates, with notable increases in steak, beans, bread, and potatoes. Local railroad politics and upcoming line projects draw attention as engineers and officials travel between Youngstown, Pittsburg, and Cleveland areas.
A major religious revival will start April 22 at the Emery Methodist church in Pittsburg, Western Pennsylvania, running through May 3. Evangelists Rev. Joseph H. Smith and Rev. H C Morrison, previously of New Castle, will lead the series of evangelistic services.
William Smith of East Youngstown was badly injured yesterday after realizing he was on the wrong streetcar and attempting to jump off, fracturing his skull during the fall.
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