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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
6
A dated report shows the Charities Association near collapse with cash receipts totaling 671.35 and numerous small donations from individuals and church groups. The balance funds a net deficit and several unaccounted items remain.
United Press reports a U S Minister Hicks dispatch from Punta Arenas stating the fleet will sail Friday night with torpedo flotilla and salute Valparaiso as it passes. The admiral has been requested to conduct the salute and locals show courtesy to sailors with shore leave and orderly conduct.
In MUBOIS Pennsylvania two Italian boarders, Frank Faro and Jose Bruccesco, fought a deadly duel in their room. Faro was found dead with a stiletto wound, Bruscesco was mortally wounded and unconscious after an extensive razor assault. The quarrel began the day before and ended with the room breached by other boarders.
The daughter of N Biasucci of 170 South Jefferson street was taken to the hospital Friday morning in Sutton's ambulance. Dr Loyal W Wilson operated upon the child for appendicitis.
Akron report says Mrs. William Taylor and her brother Daniel Thomas were killed after their car blinded by a snow storm drove into an Erie express near Tallmage. Olean report notes ten injured when the northbound Flyer wrecked near Franklinville, cars thrown off track.
A Buffalo and Allegheny Valley line wreck near Kittanning Pennsylvania injures about twenty. the second section of the Pennsylvania Washington flyer derails as the engine and two coaches jump tracks and plunge into a ditch.
A portrait of Christopher Columbus as a relentless dreamer who faced repeated rebuffs in seeking funding for his westward voyage. Despite isolation and mutinous crews, his steadfast faith, backed by Isabella of Spain, led to the historic discovery of new continents and a new era in world history.
A six story business block at 519 521 Huron road in Cleveland burned last night. The blaze, driven by a strong wind, caused about 100000 in losses borne mainly by the building owner and the J M Bour company and the Cleveland Bankers and Confectioners Supply company. Mrs James Rocks of 68 Parson street has been seriously ill with typhoid pneumonia but shows signs of improvement.
Mrs. Antonio Bellestri of 1039 Hillen Street built a real roof garden to grow vegetables after market shortages. She filled six foot deep store boxes with rich soil and planted corn beans pumpkins squashes cucumbers and Italian plants. Several crops emerge yearly with surplus shared with friends.
A New York broker recalls Marion Story Julian Storys brother as a skilled angler famed for entertaining fish stories. He recounts Story fishing for tarpon in Florida in a motor boat with a Florida cracker companion when a bite toppled the cracker overboard. Story rescued him after the big fish yanked him into the water.
A plaintiff testifies he was struck by a stranger as he walked beside a waiting train. The defendant blames train delays and poor service for his outburst and admits the act. The judge fines him ten dollars for the blows.
The Audubon Society seeks permanent bird habitats on islands and remote tracts along Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the gulf with Roosevelt endorsing a plan to enlarge birdland by buying breeding places. It aims to provide humane guardians and ample quarters for all national bird races.
The excerpt explains why letters go unwritten after long gaps. Swift notes the cycle starts with a short omission, then habit and excuses, and finally complete silence. He adds the pattern applies both to him giving and receiving letters.
Lord Roseberry manages a 35000 acre Dalmeny estate turning out seed crops with international reputation. Produce is grown mainly for seed and his seeds are used by grain and root crop farmers across Europe and in several colonies.
The mineral water output from springs with medicinal qualities in 1906 reached 48 518 395 gallons valued at 1 574 590 dollars, a notable rise from the prior year.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for Samuel S Emery at Trinity Episcopal Church with Rev J B Reilly officiating and Masonic pallbearers. he is buried at Greenwood cemetery. At the family home on South Bay Street funeral rites for Clarence M Rodgers were led by Rev John of the Welsh Congregational Church, with interment also at Greenwood cemetery and pallbearers named Roy McMillen Lee Stockman Bert Smith Albert Williams Fred Remley and Albert Emery.
Mr and Mrs Harry A Kelty of 6 Quest street mourn the loss of their infant Berdie Irene, aged 10 weeks, due to pneumonia. The funeral is Sunday at 1 pm at the home with interment at Rose Point.
Shenango township mourns for Charles Eugene Riler infant son of Mr and Mrs Charles Edward Riler who died after a brief illness aged one year last December funeral plans pending. New Castle Junction family mourns six month old Joe Datteoli infant son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Datteoli whose funeral was held Friday at 2 pm with burial at St Vitus cemetery.
The funeral for the late John M Weatherbee of Union township will be held Saturday at 2 o'clock at the family residence. Interment follows at Graceland cemetery.
Fraser River sturgeon, once a major export, have reappeared in July after years of decline due to overfishing. Most are small but some large fish clog salmon nets. the law bars sale or shipment of sturgeon under four feet, encouraging release unless killed to escape nets. An eleven foot, 500 pound fish was recently caught in a salmon net.
The narrator studies frogs and notes their alarm when approached. A bold frog repeatedly butts the narrator’s legs and then explains with courtesy that American frogs are descended from a wooing frog, making idiocy hereditary.
The News publishes a compiled table of fire alarm boxes with locations including 5 Devlin 19 Jefferson near White 21 Mercer Lincoln avenues 22 Highland Wallace 23 Neshannock 24 East and Grant 29 Highland Wellington and others. The list names streets and intersections such as 81 Pittsburg Court 32 Walnut 33 Croton Vine 58 Jefferson Terrace 59 Hamilton Electric and more across the area.
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