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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
13
New Castle News published in New Castle Pennsylvania as a second class matter. The paper lists its offices at Corner Sycamore Street and Apple Alley with the News Company ownership and staff credits including editors and managers. Subscriptions pricing is provided for daily and weekly editions.
The currency premium in New York vanished briefly yesterday then fell to a quarter of one percent, signaling a turn in the year end financial disturbance. Banks in New York show stronger reserves, cash settlements resume, and optimism grows for a faster market recovery nationwide.
A playful column blends weather, flight, and year beginnings with jokes on jump years and proposals. It nods to New Castle’s news and local politics, wryly noting a ward race between Dickson Wilson and Fallis, plus whimsical asides on a Danville butcher becoming a preacher.
Merchants predict higher canned food costs beginning January 1 due to crop shortfalls in New York and Maine, with corn, peas, tomatoes and beans facing increases. Wholesale prices have already jumped from 95 cents to 1.10 per dozen for corn, and retail cans may rise by two to five cents. Producers cite supply constraints and higher marketing costs, signaling hardship for consumers in the new year.
United States Steel employees who held preferred stock under a 1903 arrangement are set to receive a share of a bonus fund when the five year limit expires tomorrow. The fund, described as running into the millions, rewards those who kept their stock rather than selling or losing it.
Advice on staying healthy in winter emphasizes staying active and warm, ventilating rooms, and avoiding over bundling. It warns against using tobacco and alcohol as they weaken digestion and warmth, and promotes a robust daily routine and proper clothing to build natural resistance to colds. The piece stresses the body’s ability to endure exposure and benefit from regular activity and cleanliness.
A collage of brief anecdotes and quips recalling social quirks. Notes on furniture buys, a Cleveland man jailed over marriage, and absurdities about plumbing, drinking, and leap year. Mentions Oklahoma City beer in a sewer and many vagrants given lodging at Youngstown police station.
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