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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
7
Miss Hunt, hospital matron, reports growing local support for Ellwood City Hospital in May. The Woman's club and Rebekah lodge led drives, with gifts including fruit, vegetables, preserves, jelly, and items for the laundry. Board plans funding for building improvements.
Novel Hokara antiseptic massage cream claims to remove wrinkles pimples eczema and skin blemishes. Advertises after use on hands or face for soft velvety skin with dead skin sloughing off. Sold by M B McKee with guarantee best you ever used or money back pricing 25 cents for a liberal size 50 cents.
Doctors Davis Sweany and Rowan recognized for over twenty five years each in the study and treatment of nervous chronic and special diseases and ailments of men and women.
Ellwood City report shows Joe Vincenzo a cobbler on Seventh street who polishes shoes and plays horn. A boy named Joe Lacava called him some player, prompting a scuffle. Vincenzo agreed to pay for the boy’s repairs and the case was dropped.
Tickets for Redpath Brockway entertainments are on sale at 2 dollars each. About twenty performances are planned, averaging 16 cents per show. W R Thompson distributes tickets among supporters, with twenty tickets assigned to each guarantor. An executive board meeting in the fire department building discussed arrangements for the July 4 start.
Ellwood City June 2 Mrs McCarthy becomes the new president of the Woman's club at yesterday's meeting in the library rooms. Mrs Moore exits after a year of leadership and gives a brief address. A letter from Prof Skeeles thanks the ladies for hospital donations. Mrs Bradley presents a paper on Playgrounds followed by discussion. Three local ladies were proposed as new members with action to come at the next meeting.
In Ellwood City on June 2 the lot at Fifth street and Lawrence avenue was graded. Owned by G. S. Young, formerly with Alex Twentier, the site will host a brick block once building plans are ready. The project lowers the lot to Fifth street grade, greatly improving the area’s appearance.
The section rocks into a bustling business district as the People’s National bank opens a new building and the Beaver Valley Harmony line opens a new branch attracting commercial activity.
Ellwood City reports the first uprights of the false work for a river span have been erected on piling in the creek bed. A traveling crane sets girders, while crews on the south bank build heavy wooden frames for the second uprights. Riveting of placed girders is expected to finish this week.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Moore of this city return from a three months stay in the west. They visited the California exhibitions in San Diego and San Francisco and stopped in several middle western cities on their way to the coast. Mr. Moore conducted business for the Matthews Gravity Carrier Company of this city during the trip.
In Ellwood City on June 2 a party of about thirty upcoming sophomores from the local high school visited Gardner as guests of teacher Miss Lockhart. They enjoyed a picnic dinner and returned to Ellwood City on an evening train reporting a most enjoyable day.
Myrtle Anderson has been discharged from Ellwood City hospital after nine weeks of treatment and is now living with her sister on Wayne avenue. Mrs. J. H. Collins of North Sewickley also left the institution after several weeks of treatment.
Ground breaking occurred this morning for a two story brick block to be built by Louis Carbo on Lawrence Avenue near the Steifel building. Carbo plans to move his Franklin Avenue grocery to Lawrence Avenue and open one of the boroughs most up to date markets upon completion.
Ellwood City Pennsylvania report notes one arrest Tuesday evening when an offender was taken to the borough jail on drunkenness charges. He faced a hearing the next morning, was fined costs, and permitted to start again.
Ellwood City residents spent Memorial Day picnicking along Slippery Rock Creek with McConnell's Mills drawing the largest crowds. The event reflected community leisure and local gatherings in Ellwood City on a holiday.
McKeesport resident Mrs Frank H Milburn praises Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets for her 18 pregnancies and ongoing health needs. The testimonial urges readers to seek the temperance medicine for women's disorders and lists free advice from Dr Pierce.
Among the local people who spent the day there were R. E. Searfoss, P. N. Barkley, W. H. McCormick, Richard Wier, Albert Gardner, William Travis, Jess Weir, Lloyd Randolph, William Brenneman, Robert Lutz, William Friday and Dewey Duncan.
Local residents and visitors are noted returning from trips to Pittsburg Youngstown New Castle East Liverpool and Cleveland. Names include Miss Tina Ward Miss Maude Barrett Miss Anna Goldberg Miss Elsie Reinheimer and Mrs Dorothy Seidel among others with multiple households hosting guests and extended visits.
The New Castle district of the Methodist Episcopal church opened its annual conference yesterday afternoon at the Mahoningtown church. About 35 attended, two thirds being ministers. Dr Frederick H Wright spoke on Italian Methodist work and urged renewed efforts for Italians. The conference continues Wednesday with E M Fradenburgh to deliver the closing sermon.
The U S Public Health Service urges daily outdoor exercise to prevent degeneration. It says life expectancy after forty has fallen, and warns that sedentary work and indolence lead to heart and kidney disease, urging walking, hobbies, walking clubs, gardening, and two hours of outdoor activity daily.
A courtroom exchange recaps a domestic dispute in which the wife may have seized a weapon during a quarrel and a flatiron becomes a possible nonlethal prop. The dialogue underscores uncertainty about whether a weapon was actually used.
A brief exchange shows Mr Bliggers insisting his family will travel for the summer while he remains behind for rest. He dismisses climate concerns, stressing the need for solitude over weather. Washington Star.
City park benches in New Castle show warping and bending of steel supports. City Parks Commissioner Barnett suspects heavy use or vandalism as the cause and vows to investigate while urging public care for shared benches.
Italy is valued at about 20 billion dollars with a population near 33.9 million. The figures cite peak revenue 2.85 billion and expenditures 512.8 million, with imports around 505.8 million and exports 714.5 million. Merchant marine tonnage, railway miles, and other totals are listed from major almanacs.
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