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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
2
Fragmentary publication text from New Castle News presents a local paper header with missing details on staff and subscription, plus stray notices. The readable portions show an address in New Castle and references to service and advertising. The damaged OCR obscures names, dates, and full notices.
In a wartime yet reflective note, respected veterans Col. J. DuShane and Commander Thomas McKee are urged to recognize a new surge of national spirit. Five thousand New Castle youths volunteer eagerly, with Italian Polish Austrian Hungarian and Greek students nearly all declaring readiness to serve.
A collage of quirky rural insights and folk quirks recounts blues and boasts from a shoreline town, with sayings on politics, Liberty bonds, and strain in daily life. Vignettes mention New Castle, Berwick, and Hazelton, Pa., and reflect humor and caution about public affairs and work.
A New Wilmington gathering urged patriotism as men registered for the draft. Addresses by Wm McElyee Elizabeth McGaughrey Howell Getty and Dr Ferguson covered conscription and old soldiers. Special music and a Cross Society attendance marked the event while young and old united in national service. The school commencement in the Second Presbyterian Church was postponed for lack of film test.
The brief page notes moving pictures at Star Nixon and Sohamomntam theatres with titles like What Every Girl Should Know and The Circus of Life. It also reports RF Moll of Mercer County elected principal of Farrell High School succeeding Prof Port Ecklee.
Pittsburgers and county figures gathered for an Opera Hour meeting on the Liberty Loan. Despite delegates from the county safety committee and local bankers, the audience of fifty to sixty offered little enthusiasm as weather and lack of musicians dampened the event. Speakers urged buying bonds with dedication to U S war funding, but no purchases followed the adjournment.
A grand jury reconvened this morning returning true bills on multiple cases. Defendants named include John C. Duffy for aggravated assault, John Raboszewski for felonious assault and battery, and Dominick Poles for selling liquor without a license. Also listed are Joseph Wilkins, Joan Haslubistas and Andrew Haslosbistas, and Charles Milano among others, with various charges and one case noting costs.
Fragmented report recalls expeditions from Philadelphia to Alaska to study the kaki mo and Kaiser era fears. It laments wartime anxieties, mentions President Taft and Washington clerks, and notes Enon Valley sightings with warnings of intruders looming next week.
A fragmentary notice discusses the idea that civilization has not improved mankind over the past century, citing medical and educational debates. It references the notion that modern knowledge might not yield greater mental or physical capacities, arguing antiquity could have used similar advances.
Catherine Mildred Hobel five dies at home after brief illness parents suspect candy caused death she ate Monday afternoon then became violently ill later that day she had been in perfect health Funeral Friday at 2 at residence with burial in Graceland cemetery she leaves parents and sister Isabvelle.
Realty transfers include The Pittsburg Company to Anna M Anderson Elswood 200 dollars Carmeda Forgione to Antonio Panella Seventh ward 4 Antonio Panella to Nocila Recarora Seventh ward 31 850 Samuel McCain to Fred Timm Union 1 Theodor Lipotto to Tony Perrazzano Fifth ward 1100 George Greer to Frederick Taylor Pulaski 1 220 Samuel McVain to Ruth Blair Union 1 Charles W Cook to James C Cook Second ward 31 Cosidio J Madizia to Angelo Picella Third ward 372 50 Bella C Reynolds to Mary Louden Fourth ward 1 Win Fredhy to Catherine A Modgers Union 1 650 Henry McCreary to Raymond R South Union 31 G if Cunningham to Clara Nagel Wayne Marriage Licenses John L Smith Lew Castle Margaret A Leyde ew Castle
The News will publish political notices ahead of the September primaries. Announcements are authorized and subject to official primary timing and eligibility rules.
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