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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
1
Navy planes prepared for the August 28 San Francisco to Hawaii flight were ordered to converge on San Francisco. Two PM-9 planes and two PB-7 ships will depart San Diego tomorrow to the start, and a B-1 plane is ordered from Seattle to join the crossing effort.
A milk wagon horse belonging to &.C. Chapman of Cumberland Avenue dairy was badly injured after a collision with Arthur Prioletti’s car near Croton Avenue. The horse suffered severe head injuries and a broken leg and was shot by Dr. T. F. Nugent with Officer H. M. Reynolds assisting. A separate report notes a boy about 10 was struck by William Taylor’s car on Montgomery Avenue but declined medical aid.
The text notes cooler air signaling fall and a fondness for green corn. It describes dining habits at meals with corn on the cob, butter and salt, and a tidy finish. The narrator jokes about meals and the season, mentioning eighty degrees as ideal for savoring succulent corn.
Treasury officials, buoyed by foreign debt talks, expect the United States to be virtually debt free by 1950. Achieving this hinges on finalizing funding with France and Italy, maintaining strict fiscal economy, and keeping Congress restrained. If conditions hold, the vast postwar debt could be paid within a quarter century.
Edward R. Smith reported seeing New Castle automobile plates in multiple states while visiting Mt. Vernon Virginia with Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Williams. They observed plates at Chesapeake Beach Maryland and South Mountain Maryland, and at Chautauqua Lake New York. Jos. Gurgecz noted many plates in Buffalo New York and near Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.
President Coolidge, refreshed after an overnight stay in Northampton, planned to resume a 200 mile motor journey from his Plymouth Vermont homestead to Swampscott. He signed a Belgium debt pact totaling 430 million dollars in Northampton before continuing his trip.
YOUNGSTOWN OH Aug 21 Richard Lyden 39 talking with two friends near his restaurant was shot down last night by two men who crossed the street and fired into his back. Detectives inclined to believe the slayers got the wrong man. Lyden’s friends were startled and the assailants fled toward the business section two blocks away. Eden was instantly killed.
A Brooklyn apartment fire kills seven year old Martin Krieger and injures four others while six families are rescued. Authorities later trace missing heiress Mary P Simpson from Beloit to Akron, identifying her in hotel photos as the daughter of George P Simpson who died in Wisconsin with a will leaving ten thousand dollars.
Ford C. Brandon of Beaver Falls has been commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the Infantry Reserve Corps, announced today by the War Department. The officer, residing at 3319 Fourth Avenue, Washington, is named in the federal release dated August 21.
A brother and sister in New Castle underwent appendectomy within a month. George Butler of 404 Epworth Street had acute appendicitis at Shenango Tin Mill and was operated on promptly. Three weeks later his sister Mrs. Martin Hieteh of 526 Lyndat Street also required an urgent appendix operation. Both recoveries were smooth and no complications reported.
A head-on collision between two Rio Grande Western crack passenger trains near Granite Colorado left two engineers dead and ninety injured, with thirteen seriously hurt. Officials blamed a misdelivered order that caused the trains to meet at Granite, not Pine Crack, and both crews escaped by jumping from their engines before the wreckage fell into the Arkansas River.
A list of marriage license filings appears with fragmented names and places including McIntosh Toungatown Emily Williama New Castle Lee, Hardesty Akron Cleo Carternat, Recell Gay Hast Youngstown Katia Bell Bush, Youngstown William Nichol Colona Elizabeth Slocum Monuen Aries DeBerry Butler Janovieth, Mary Glertoch New Castle Louis Niro Ellwood City Esther Latianog Wampuni.
New Castle's WKBG and the New Castle News plan a week of radio broadcasts featuring many local artists led by Mayor Dunlap opening the station at 6 pm Monday. Rev Pearson will give an address, with performances by Carl Williams and others, plus nightly shows and a late program by the Smith Williams Institute.
Worcester Mass August 21 Walter Derosier a member of the Notorious auto bandits gang was found dead in a stolen car abandoned by accomplices after a gun duel with two patrolmen in a restaurant. Initial police reports misidentified him as gang leader John Troy.
Aug. 21. A 8:45 a.m. alert sent deputies to the Bell-Zotler mine number one at Zeigler as rioting broke out. Conservative miners on the wild cat picket lines attempted to resume work and the sheriff with a deputy force rushed to the scene, though the informant gave no further details.
Brief death notice lists Franly Filson of Salem Ohio and mentions Mrs. Mary Wright Gohring and Luba Riddia Gomenths with residence details. Also references William Faust ages 88 and addresses on Rebecca Street and 18.10 Pennsylvania Avenue.
President W. Charles Wallace announces Charles A. Dawson ASM Ph B of Buffalo New York will fill the vacancy in the English professorship at Westminster College New Wilmington Pennsylvania caused by Gilbert W Mead resigning to become dean at Birmingham Southern College in Birmingham Alabama.
Twenty four regional prohibition administrators were named by the Treasury Department to lead a nationwide effort to eliminate bootleg operations. Appointees, many drawn from former prohibition directors, will operate under Assistant Secretary Lincoln C. Andrews in what officials call the largest enforcement push in U S history. The new team includes six newcomers and one retiree from industry, with duties to ramp up the crackdown across states. Page Two continues.
Flower stalks rise across Lawrence county with reports of sunflowers and dahlias near thirteen feet tall. Neighbors from New Castle to Harlansburg report sunflowers eleven to twelve feet high, some with blooms over an inch in diameter, while readers are invited to challenge the records by sending in their own measurements.
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