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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1925
Page
7
In New Castle many families have already disposed of their Christmas trees. Most become kindling or are given to children to play with in backyards. About five thousand trees were sold last week in the city. The garbage plant helps burn discard trees, including the municipal tree from the public square.
Insurance men from New Castle met at the Elks club for a Pittsburgh Life Underwriters Association sponsored dinner aimed at closer cooperation and fraternal spirit for life insurance. A New Castle branch was proposed with J. D. Reebel as chairman and an executive committee named.
Sharon, Pa. Mrs. Geor gia Southern owns a claimed Stradivarious Cremonensis violin dating to 1721. Passed through generations from Birmingham, England via John R. Guest who died in Libby Prison after the Civil War. Now in her family and used by her 14 year old son William Robert Southern. Despite high offers, she keeps it.
Ti Nanton of the New Castle Motor Club says most licensed drivers already display 1926 license plates and that police are unlikely to arrest owners for 1925 tags after tomorrow, as 1926 plates have been available since December 16 and are now legal nationwide.
Weather favors skating as a core group of boys and young men gathered at noon on the Neshannock Creek near East Washington street bridge. Teens and late teens joined the scene as residents recall New Castle’s past skating interest during a brisk winter day.
The article recalls Major General Preston Brown’s rise from private in 1894 to high rank, crediting First Sergeant Josep Helfer with giving him his start. Brown, born in Kentucky in 1872 and Yale-educated, served in the Spanish American War and the Philippines, earned the Distinguished Service Medal, and led the Third Division during the Argonne Meuse offensive before commanding the First Corps area in Boston.
A reporter notes patterns from down town lunch crowds. Stenographers and store girls eat little, while men in offices and stores order hot meat courses and desserts. Professional men enjoy a light lunch. women shop after eating. Belmont Park Futurity 1928 carries a $100,000 gross value.
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