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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1916
Page
15
City markets show steady demand for green goods and fruits while prices move little. Creamery butter is expected to rise this summer. strawberries, new potatoes, and eggs remain in solid demand. Retail meat prices are listed for beef pork and lamb along with grain and feed costs for farmers.
Wholesale market page lists dressed geese and turkeys with per pound prices, plus a long fish section featuring catfish flounder halibut herring and mackerel with per pound or per dozen rates. Live stock and meat quotations from Wrights market include dressed lamb calves beef and pork with price ranges and notes on live hogs and yearling cattle.
The Detroit Journal argues against wartime austerity that labels comforts as luxuries. It defends variety and consumer goods as essential to civilization, contrasts them with cannons and war, and suggests abolishing war and debts instead of trimming luxuries.
Born to Mr. and Mrs J N Hazen of 817 East Washington street a daughter. Mrs Frank Cartwright of Long avenue was a visitor at Gardner yesterday. Mrs Mary S Britton of Butler avenue is visiting friends in Fayette City Pa. Born to Mr and Mrs Charles Rick of Spruce street a son. Mrs Findley McConnell of Steubenville is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs B F Norris of West Grant avenue.
The document lists residents and parties connected to New Castle including Charles B Schooley Sharon Mary Helen Fee Vernon L Page Charlotte Davis Joseph Francis Pressel Mary Elizabeth Welsh Geo R Bowen Elizabeth J Wilson and Frank Axe along with Louise Parksee.
New Jersey Republican delegates in caucus proposed a six member committee to meet with Progressive delegates to seek unity. The move was adopted unanimously and the plan to present the resolution to the convention was approved.
A McKeesport News summary notes a local church sermon on fathers praising their role in homes and in guiding sons. It urges sons to heed paternal counsel, respect fathers, and avoid disdaining wisdom, while highlighting fatherly duties, protection, and moral guidance.
Twenty two percent of Pennsylvania farmers report difficulty securing male farm labor this spring with high wages and rising prices. War related factory work and returning foreigners reduce available hands, strongest shortages seen in counties such as Allegheny Erie Philadelphia Montgomery and York.
City council of New Castle Pa. passes an ordinance relocating part of State Street in the Sixth Ward between Harbor Street and the city line. The measure sets a 45 foot street width and fixes grades from Harbor Street to the city boundary, with lands of the New Castle & Lowell Realty Co. and I N Phillips heirs taken for the project.
The Fear-Not Bible class will meet with Mrs J H Grossart at 719 Brook on Arena Tuesday evening.
Ore valued at ten thousand dollars per ton is reported in a recently discovered Colorado mine the old Horsefall lode where the vein had vanished long ago and is now re discovered in place.
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