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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1915
Page
4
Special notice lists officers and staff of The News ny, a corporation, with titles including President, Vice President, Secretary and Editor. It provides office addresses on Sycamore Street and Apple Way, telephone numbers for editorial and business rooms, and subscription rates. It notes international service by Telegraph and Cable and advertising representations in New York City.
An essay on love and marriage celebrates the enduring value of companionship. It contrasts youthful dreaming with mature reality, notes the joy of love, and urges letting the wedding bells ring out as a lasting human ideal.
Editor General Powell A reports after reviewing all appropriations, the governor must cut about eleven million dollars to avoid a deficiency. Revenues for the next two years total nearly sixty one million while appropriations run to seventy one and a half million, a figure challenged by the house appropriation chair but used for legislative framing.
John Sanderson of the Parkway Westside long a city drayman for 48 years loves horses and all horses. The piece notes daily brutality by traction drivers at the freight station as he watches from home, highlighting a view on labor and animal treatment.
John denounces city beer deliveries harming horses and urges Humane Society intervention. He cites drivers whipping horses as brutal, while W. W. Stevenson, leader of the local Humane Society, contemplates mayoral run and faces voter pressure to stop cruelty before John withholds support.
Marblehead Mass Harry Payne Whitney plans to join aviators ordering Burgess Dunne plane at Wool Starling Burgess plant. The craft will have a 100 horse power engine and exceed seventy miles per hour. Whitney has been in the Aero club of America for ten years but never before shown interest in flying.
Edward Hill of Admiral Dewey avenue brought a five foot six inch tall rhubarb stalk to The News office. The huge plant, with a three foot wide leaf, was sent to the Shenango Valley hospital where it inspired talk of pies for patients.
Rev. Herbert Dyke, formerly a New Castle minister, now based in Oakland California, visits local friends. He serves as superintendent of Christian and Missionary Alliance work in California and will travel to Barkeyville Pennsylvania to visit more friends.
Berlin dispatch reports General von Hindenburg writing to a Berlin friend on Italy entering the war. He says Italian intervention may prolong the struggle but will not affect the final outcome.
The British steamship Star of the West, a 197 ton Aberdeen hailing vessel, was sunk by a German submarine off Peterhead Scotland on Saturday. All crew members were saved.
Athens June 7 report says German artisans have arrived in Constantinople to install a factory for recharging used battlefield cartridges picked up from the fighting areas.
Weekend excursion offer for Conneaut Lake Erie and Ashtabula with prices listed. Tickets available at Pennsylvania Lines offices. Dates include June 3 4 5 10 11 12 17 18 19 24 25 26.
A bustling anecdote recalls a busted tire halting travel and revealing Good Samaritans who aided the travelers. The piece threads through humorous vignettes on society witticisms, local incidents, and moral reflections with names like Grif Alexander and references to Greensburg and Reading, Pa.
A string of wry city anecdotes and quips on public figures, manners, and social quirks. Topics include a New York divorce bid over soap scented pork chops, conscience funds, Bryan, Italy in war, and a Pennsylvania judge ruling on mother-in-law disputes.
A license plate number 18621 was found on South Jefferson Street by a police officer. F D Ablett complained of an auto with license X1819 driven by E Pearsall. Officers investigated reports of suspicious persons near Mercer and Grant streets and a stray Paige Auto Sales grey horse. A window was broken at C F Wilson tin shop on South Mercer Street.
Firefighters responded to a blaze on a Pennsylvania siding near the Shenango tin mill Saturday night. The fire started in a freight car used as office space for yard workers and the box car was destroyed. A school board meeting is set for Tuesday at the East Street building. Street Commissioner Barteaux oversees repair of Eastbrook road from Croton Avenue to MacAdam with surface work aimed at good condition.
Liberty street sidewalks to be cleaned by the street department after Councilman Gilmore urged railroad responsibility. Two incandescent lights will replace an arc light at Milton and County Line streets due to tree foliage obscuring the existing light. The City Clerk was authorized to advertise bids for a sanitary sewer on North Mercer street. Fairfield avenue residents asked to widen the street midway to 24 feet between Highland avenue and Mercer street. request referred to the committee.
The New Castle Electric Company asked the city council for permission to install a number of utility poles on Evans Avenue and other locations. The request was referred to a committee for review.
A sanitary sewer request was presented to council this morning by residents of Norwood avenue and Albert street and the matter was referred to the committee of the whole. An exemption of taxes amounting to 8.93 was sought by Mrs. G. M. Sharpe of Butler avenue and referred to the board of revision. Harry M. Harrah asked for revision after reporting a $250 assessment as a laborer, saying he had worked as such for two years but was taxed as a roller at the tin mill. the case was referred to the board of revision.
The family of the late William Rhodes of Chewton thank neighbors and friends for kindness during illness and death. Dr. Jos. Rhodes, W. H. Rhodes, Mrs. Ella Rhodes, Mrs. Lucy Rhodes.
A humorous domestic tale in dialect contrasts a father's stoic response to pain with a mother's ailment and the neighbors' reactions. Pa mocks suffrage talk while enduring a headache, a footstep injury sparks sympathy, and a chorus of voices weighs gender roles and resilience.
Mr Lang of Sumner Avenue reported to police that while driving near New Bedford last night a large Winton Six sedan struck his car, pushed it into a ditch, and fled the scene. The Lang vehicle sustained about $200 in damage and the assailant’s rear light was broken.
A Pennsylvania woman testifies that Favorite Prescription restored her strength and appetite after feminine health issues. The ad claims thousands in Pennsylvania use the remedy for female diseases and promises free medical advice and a book from Dr. Pierce at Buffalo, with Pleasant Pellets for digestion.
The undersigned will sell at public auction at the Richardson block 103 West Washington street New Castle Pennsylvania on Tuesday June 8 1915 at 2 p m a large stock of furniture gas ranges stoves hot plates bakers baby go carts mirrors and all articles of goods and merchandise at the store lately conducted by Alexander Richardson deceased Lula J Richardson Administratrix
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