New Castle News Front Page Editorial and Advertisements
New Castle News publishes an evening edition from 28 North Mercer Street with daily, weekly, and stand prices. The issue includes a toll of carelessness feature on grade crossing accidents in Pennsylvania, noting rising totals in 1925 and urging motorists to slow down, look, and listen at crossings to reduce risk to vehicles, pedestrians, and trains. It cites increases in injuries and fatalities and discusses crossbucks, gates, and the need for vigilance at main lines, sidings, and trolley routes.
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Women Proved Competent Drivers By A A A Tests
The American Automobile Association found through controlled tests that women perform as well as men in driving. The study used ten men and ten women students at George Washington University, matching ages to compare reactions and handling in emergencies.
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Driving study finds gender reaction time differences
The report notes that driving tests across the country used identical methods. A pistol signal triggered braking, with women averaging 0.56 seconds and men 0.39 seconds. Variability was smaller for women, and the author quips about not reigniting the argument now that it is officially settled.
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Popularizing Deuce Note Promises to Save Government
A whimsical look at the two-dollar bill once scorned by the public and limited by Washington. Experts now propose reissuing it to cut printing costs, as two one-dollar notes cost the same to print but wear out faster. The piece jokes about superstition, finance, spelling bees, love, earthquakes, and other assorted quirks.
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Hints and Dints from a Turbulent Letter Page
A long, mixed-print column mocks prices and politics, notes a Salem dentist letter about protecting the flag, and jokes about Sunday laws, baby milk, and everyday life. It mentions New Castle merchants’ planned nine dollar day, tax cuts, and Scopes trial reflections, with local quips on fashion, morality, and humor.
Rockefeller gift to Chicago Divinity School sparks debate
Arthur Brisbane notes Mr Rockefeller’s $1,000,000 grant to a Chicago divinity school prompts questions about teaching on creation versus evolution. He cites fundamentalists, Darwin, and Haeckel, arguing against literalism and noting gravitation and planetary motion as scientific counterpoints. He recalls Luigi Cornaro’s health study and Judge Gary’s age as a digression on belief and endurance.
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American Thoughts and Ford Dance in a Fragmented Column
A fragmented editorial mix critiques Henry Ford's Desibara workshop and modern dances, contrasts faith and politics, warns against Bolshevik propaganda funded by money sent to Russia, and ends with a cynical jab about millionaires protecting their corner lots whileAwaiting buyers.
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Martial Law in Teheran After U S Consul Imbrie Assassination
A year after the assassination of U S Vice Consul Imbrie Teheran in Persia was placed under martial law as authorities tightened control amid unrest and diplomatic tensions.
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Hickory Dickory Dock Motor Knocks Slow Down Town
A playful verse describes a motor that develops a knock and slows down as it moves toward town. The rhythm echoes the Hickory Dickory Dock nursery rhyme.
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Card Of Thanks For Kath ering Patton Memorial
The family of Mrs Kath ering Patton thanks friends and neighbors for kindness, sympathy, floral tributes, and donated automobiles during their loss. Edward and Patton family express appreciation for support from Local 1L.
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Noted Poet Edgar A Guest Poem on Time and Storms
Time has returned the speaker's ship with wisdom gained from storms and failed cargoes. Hope set forth a fair dream but harsh seas humbled pride as battered hulls seek port. The lesson: to reach happiness one must endure, be brave, and adapt through trials. Copyright 1925 Edgar A Guest.
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American educator Dr A O Thomas to preside in Maine
Edinburgh will have led American asate presiding afficer Dr A O Thomas state superintendent of public instruction of Maine. Born on an Ulinois farm in 1864 he attended school in Iowa and started teaching in Nebraska in 1891. He led a Nebraska normal school then headed the new normal at Kearney and became state superintendent. In 1917 he moved to Maine to assume a similar post and promoted the World Federation of Education association formed in California two years earlier to foster international goodwill through schools and colleges.
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Looking Forward as Life’s Best Path Says Crane Editorial
In this 1925 column, the author urges readers to keep a forward look and avoid dwelling on the past. He cites biblical imagery of Lot’s wife and warns reminiscence can sap hope and initiative. The future, like an open sky, invites progress beyond old afflictions.
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Sentences on love and virtue in a wary verse tone
A compact reflection on love's blindness and truth. The speaker muses that love sees virtues others miss while noting contrasts such as cowardice and change from boys to men. The piece blends proverbs with paradoxes about history and spirit, ending with a Christmas-inspired line.
Maccabees In Washington For Big Convention
Five thousand Maccabees lodge members arrived in Washington for the annual convention to be held at the Washington auditorium through Friday. A large class of candidates including Governors Ritchie of Maryland and Trinkle of Virginia will be initiated tonight as part of the biennial conference and parade. The World Federation of Education representatives, in decorated floats, meet today to seat state representations.
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World And The Mud Puddles Reflect Two Baseball Giants
A July newspaper piece honors Joe McGinnity and Christy Mathewson, recalling their impact on American sport and ideals. It highlights Mathewson’s battlefield discipline and moral standing, and notes McGinnity as the enduring “Iron Man” of the box, concluding with their lasting legacies in baseball history.
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Germany Sees Evolution Trial In U S
Berlin dispatch notes Sans Driesch, former Leipzig professor, argues Europe laughs at America yet warns against boasting. He defends U S freedom of thought, condemns Tennessee anti evolution law, calls Tennessee trial unsurprising amid rising American fundamentalism and strong church influence.
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Totley's Anniversaries through the Years of 1788 to 1924
A compact list of notable anniversaries and events from 1788 to 1924. It mentions the first sermon to northwest territory, a meteor over New England and New York, deaths of Sir Francis Bond Head and Pope Leo XIII, governors Rutherford B. Hayes and Thomas L. Youns, a California London-bound test train, Jameson raiders trial in London, Pancho Villa assassination, with scattered birth dates and origins.
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