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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1925
Page
11
Japan endures the worst business depression and unemployment in its history, with over 2 million jobless and at least 100,000 on strike. Labor disputes rose in 1925 as living costs climb and wages fall, while government and chambers seek remedies to avert a domestic crisis.
Biologists at the Department of Agriculture debunk classic myths about hoop snakes and stinging snakes. They say hoop tales are fables and that a so called stinging snake lacks a sting, attributing the origin to a snake with a pointed tail. The jointed glass snake tale is also dismissed as inaccurate folklore.
A brief note explains a legless lizard that can drape its tall when threatened, with the tall replaced by a short imperfect limb. The so called gloss lizard is harmless, and the passage clarifies this natural mystery in concise form.
L H Reed of Git South Ray street suffered a severe injury to his left hand after the car driven by his son Chester Reed was struck by a Harmony Ling interurban street car at the Butler avenue Ray streets intersection. The elder Reed was being awakened for work when the collision occurred.
Frederick Hoelzel a University of Chicago student completed a thirty three day fast under Prof A J Carlson. He followed a meat diet prior to the fast and lost thirty pounds. He reports acidosis caused weakness, slept poorly, and regained weight rapidly after ending the fast with orange juice. He advocates two fasts yearly for everyone.
Pottsville reports a chilling claim as locals recall the Broad Mountain murder scene being haunted. Citizens from Mineraville gathered at the lonely spot, hearing eerie cries from the sky while investigators found no tangible evidence beyond unsettling sounds.
Mrs. Elizabeth Withee sues Robert Bihn and A C Seebeck in Brooklyn Supreme Court alleging an eye injury from a streamer tossed at a June party where liquor was served. Attorney Thomas O Rourke Gallagher says the claim is under article 22 section 101 of the Volstead Act, granting actual and exemplary damages.
The article notes damages claimed from the person who caused the injury and from no one else who "shall have caused or contributed to such intoxication" with the defendants denying the charges.
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