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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
4
The school treasurer reports about exonerating $28 000 in personal school tax for 1924. About 5 000 assessed individuals have not paid or been located. Law requires assessment a year or more before collection efforts, prompting calls for change to fix uncollected taxes.
A reflective essay contrasts utility and beauty in community planning, noting monuments and historic landmarks hinder traffic flow. It discusses public debate over highway routes, especially the Lincoln Highway, and the tension between sentiment and practical needs amid chaotic street intersections. The piece also riffs on income, prosperity, and consumer culture with humorous asides about bees, matches, and highbrow films.
A fragmented note recalls a globe trotting aviator near Paris to London a year ago while Saskatchewan voted wet signaling a temperance shift.
A colorful language warning labels a bootleg whiskey drinker by his correct name and calls out a fool who monkeyed with a switchboard or wiring without understanding the danger. The piece uses rustic dialect and moralizing tone typical of the era.
A collage of summer references and public notes touches on astronomy jokes, aviation advances, labor and coaching shortages, Prohibition era-era observations, and cultural quips. It mentions daylight times, camel vs flivver transport, forecasts, school openings, agriculture in California, Darwin and Galileo debates, and local reform humor with a satirical tone.
A 1925 column by Arthur Brisbane in New York American features brisk commentary on public affairs and social issues. The piece reflects Brisbane’s distinctive voice and era focusing on current events and opinion.
The item presents a fragmented sermonette praising mothers and love. It argues ingratitude hurts, burdens of love are light when shared, and that God favors a loving heart. It notes that brilliance cannot replace goodness and that two cannot live cheaply apart. It mentions patience needed to build a home.
The piece notes Europe amused by America’s “monkey trial” and reports Standard Oil cutting oil field hours from twelve to eight per day at Fern D Rockefeller Jr.’s request. It argues eight hours may yield better results, contrasting with past thirteen hours and suggesting no permanent profit in barbarism.
Dr Frank Crane argues in a McClure Syndicate piece that Christianity, rightly applied with common sense, improves daily living and even business success. He cites The Church Times and The Christian Century to defend religion as practical, not merely belief, insisting Christ’s laws guide better husbands fathers citizens and overall success in this world and the next.
A devotional note echoes Nehemiah 9 17 praising God as ready to pardon gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness. The verse offers comfort and exhortation to trust in divine mercy amid daily life.
A Negro preacher attends a high church service in an English Catholic setting and imitates a Roman rite with incense. He plans a similar service for his own congregation, improvising an incense pot from a fruit can. During the ritual he asks about the incense pot and learns it has fallen, yet the congregation applauds the innovation.
In Just Folks Edgar A. Guest describes a golf round on the first tee as a hopeful start. Four players begin with bright prospects, but fate and tough holes turn optimism to struggle. The poem follows their scores, setbacks, and a lingering wish for a steady, improved round by day’s end.
A collection of quotable lines from various newspapers criticizes social and political topics. The New Orleans Tirees Picayune notes men burn grains of carbon to justify knocking, Fergus Falls Tribune plays on car and affection choices, Cincinnati Enquirer jokes about sainthood for Mexico, and Washington Post laments vacation times. Kansas City Star mentions a treasury jury surplus and restoring funds to taxpayers. Chicago News mocks modern building material amid noise and family arguments.
Pierre LeMoyne hbberville founder of Louisiana born in Montreal died Havana July 8 1706. San Diego mission founded by Catholic missionaries. Stony Point recaptured from British by Americans under Anthony Wayne. Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science born Bow New Hampshire died Chestnut Hill Massachusetts December 1910. Don Carlos reentered Spain issued proclamation to Carlists. 1892 National Mining Congress at Helena Montana backs free colonial policy.
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