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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1925
Page
9
Illinois Central President C H Markham writes that the year end outlook is promising with 1926 beginning strong. He notes sound fundamentals, solid farm prices, and rail traffic levels reflecting continued prosperity and the key role of rail transportation in national growth.
Pollock students presented an elaborate Christmas program as part of the closing exercises for the holiday vacation. The program featured recitations, songs, a playlet, group performances, and a drill by pupils from multiple grades, including Helen Fabian Teresa Natale Mary DeMarco and others.
A. G. Harper brokers a showy demonstration of speed and trickery dubbed the Shoemaker game. Harper sits between two armed men who swing billys while he strikes first to hit their knees and escape unscathed. He claims the title of champion with no challenger.
The Pennsylvania state bureau of elections announced Jesse B. Cunningham of Harrisburg won the Superior Court seat by 777,387 over Democrat William A. McGuire of Johnstown after all state districts reported. Lackawanna County results had been delayed due to a recount.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on December 19 a gas explosion from burning soft coal in a furnace when anthracite was unavailable caused a fire that destroyed the bakery, a garage, and the home of Louis Hoffman and threatened the town of Shavertown.
Wilkes Barre Pa Dec 19 Wyoming schools shut due to coal shortage and a threatened measles epidemic. Plans call for reopening in early January.
The aerial ladder truck at Central fire station marked five years in city service on October 21. Placed October 21, 1918, it has run 1831.1 miles in that period, averaging about 366 miles per year or roughly one mile daily since joining the fleet.
The Big Beaver Grange will hold its next meeting on Tuesday evening December 22 with opening songs and multiple readings and recitations by valued members. A pageant titled The Old Old Story will be presented and an oyster supper will follow the program.
Road work through Beaver Township by Ohad and McAnlis schools from Wampum is under county supervision with credit given to the D M Kirk Company for road care. Geraldine McCullough is recovering from pneumonia surgery at Shenango Valley Hospital. John Libert dies of pneumonia at Kinney home. George McBride and John McAnlis place in fiddler contest at New Castle, McBride taking third. Grace McHattie visits New Brighton friends. C B McCarter buys John Taylor farm. Potato club banquet at Westfield Grange hall. Harry Patterson installs a Delca light. Mr and Mrs George Greer visit in Xenia Ohio.
A blast levelled a Plains, Pennsylvania garage killing 25 year old Stanley Dulsky. Police recovered a 40 gallon still and alcohol at the scene. family says a gasoline tank in a car exploded. The victim was found among the ruins.
Short, practical homemaking notes describe refreshing faded rugs with strong gall water and reviving hardened brushes by boiling in vinegar. It also advises washing teapots, percolators, and ironing lace, then warming the chimney flue with a burning newspaper.
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