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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
6
Dolly Dai declares love for James but cites poverty and inability to handle family washing. Anty Drudge urges immediate marriage, praising Fels-Naptha as easy on both wife and clothes.
The ad extols Fels-Naptha soap as reducing rubbing and steam, avoiding odor from cooking, and preserving clothing fibers. It claims less effort, no boiling, and longer lasting garments, urging readers to look for the red and green wrapper.
Large funeral held near Hickory township for Mrs Elwilda Pontius wife of John Pontius with services at Eastbrook M E and Eastbrook U P churches. A quartet sang and many flowers marked esteem. Interment in Oak Park cemetery with pallbearers named Pontius and Sherbine families listed.
Samuel J Burnside, 18, a student at West Side school, died Wednesday evening at 9:30 at his mother Ella J Burnside’s home on Smithfield street after two years of illness from tuberculosis. He was an only child. his father died about ten years ago. Funeral Saturday at 2:30 PM at the residence, with interment in Greenwood cemetery.
The funeral for Miss Pearl Hannon, former city resident, took place Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Church in Sharon. She was laid to rest at St. Mary's Cemetery. Pallbearers included Charles Hannon, James Hannon, Lee Hannon, William Fedigan, Michael Maden, and Eugene Buckley.
R H Aronson of Harvard baseball is in Annapolis Naval Hospital with a fractured skull. Four Italian laborers die in a gas explosion at Ellsworth mines in Ellsworth PA. Rear Admiral Samuel W Very retires from the navy at age. Mrs Mary Dowling of Kingston Hospital Brooklyn robbed of 42 dollars. Mary McLaughlin shot dead in Cleveland. husband George McLaughlin under arrest. Mrs Margaret Wolfram dies. husband and four-year-old son injured when buggy overturns in Pittsburg. Abel Gaston dies from a blow to the funny bone at Plainfield NJ. Mrs Anna Bryan dying from fractured skull after car crash on Williamsburg Bridge. her son left car unasked. Meyer Glassenberger commits suicide by jumping from window. San Francisco police lack clues on Gallagher graft case home bombing. President Truesdale’s private car detained at Hoboken for identity check.
Paris April 23 An American court may seek the trial of Paul Roy for murder of George Carkins in Newington New Hampshire last January The examining magistrate Boc card reviewed the case and today is satisfied with Roy's account though his wife Gracia Calla or other witnesses may challenge it Roy claims self defense unless the United States requests the case be dropped
New York April 23. Mrs Dustin Farnum filed for divorce from the well known actor amid theater circles discussing links to recent Gould suit accusations. The case follows Farnum’s answer naming Mrs Gould in her husband’s counter claim and related public quarrels.
In New Wilmington on April 23 the cemetery association elected nine officers with every attendee at the meeting winning a post. J. W. Houston became president, J. K. Minnick vice president, W. R. Thompson secretary, S. W. Price treasurer, and trustees G. E. Thompson D. F. Williams J. Minnick H. G. Sharp W. W. Cox. The secretary has served 25 years. The article also notes college faculty meetings with senior girls over field positions and updated social and exam policies.
President Roosevelt named Milton D. Purdy, the government's chief trust buster, as United States district judge for the District of Minnesota to replace Judge William Lochran who plans retirement. The nomination likely goes to the Senate today as a reward for Purdy's prosecutions of bad trusts.
Certification states Mr. R L Dilly is not connected with Empire Realty at 27 Deanblock New Castle Pa or Bankers Protective Life Association of Rochester Pa. 8 T Burton appointed district manager on March 14 1908 for the company. Signed S T Burton Manager Insurance M B Jordan Manager Real Estate Building.
Born to Mr and Mrs Samuel Emmitt of Vine Street a son. Thomas Crowther of West Grant Street is seriously ill with appendicitis. Mrs Richard Hannon of this city visits sister Mrs George Berger of Youngstown for a few days.
D Long describes a 11 424 mile journey from New Castle to New York Naples and across Europe to London Paris Marseilles and Monte Carlo then back to Philadelphia and New Castle he notes more building in Salt Lake City than Europe and that he walked about 500 miles and that a woman won at least 25 000 at Monte Carlo gambling tables
Ernest F. Acheson announces he will devote the next two years to building a local option movement in Pennsylvania. He declined to confirm active endorsement of Mr Tener but notes gaining a $40,000 appropriation for Charleroi public buildings and predicts a local option push shaping state politics.
Lawrence Ewart leads a bright comedy set in Kahnburg Germany. Gustavus Venner, a London Record correspondent, is mistaken for the king and impersonates him to calm a tax strife and palace intrigue, causing farcical complications.
Bryan men swept the state at yesterday’s caucuses electing delegates to the State convention. No contest for other candidates and apathy marked the caucuses with only four percent voting in Boston and many towns reporting no turnout.
The canteen of former President Grover Cleveland is again causing great anxiety to his friends as he remains ill. Cleveland, in Lakewood New Jersey, is the subject of concern with reports from United Press about his health condition.
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