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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
4
Publication details list officers editors and city office on Sycamore Street and Apple Way. Subscription rates appear as 10 cents a week or 5 dollars a year for mail, with daily stand copies available. Foreign advertising by Lee and Lindenstein. payments should be sent to The News Company.
Lawrence County officials ask Judge Emery for more court room and storage. They cite full shelves in the register and recorder, prothonotary, treasurer, and sheriff offices, rising records, and need for a district attorney office and a mothers pension trustees space. A new building or enlarged old one is debated as costly projects compete with bridges and roads funding.
The public service commission surveys all grade crossings to reduce dangerous sites at reasonable cost. The plan to eliminate many crossings remains unsettled, with local crossings urged to be included. Elevation or submergence are costly options, delaying adoption amid funding limits. A wood-based pump for acidic water is also noted.
The matter, touched by a hint of pride, is before the present grand jury as a likely favorable recommendation. It is seen as one of the few viable options amid numerous other projects demanding large spending, suggesting an addition may proceed.
The town plans two miles of paved streets and decorative street lighting from the college to the McCreary hotel. Residents have raised about $7,000 to build good roads toward New Castle, showing how cooperation can revitalize a small town and inspire neighboring areas.
A sprawling miscellany notes public life and politics with wry humor. It mentions Hughes Perkins and Chicago crowds, Lawrence county court house work, speakeasies, safety advice, and social quirks in brisk, opinionated vignettes.
J M Shankweiler, driver of the jitney that struck John Gierlach on Mahoning avenue, is cleared of blame after inquest testimony. Witnesses say he drove slowly and the boy darted from the curb, the driver swerved left but the boy continued into the path of the car. The mother of the deceased cried during the testimony.
The Regent theatre presents moving pictures starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall in The Mistake and A Youth of Fortune. The Nixon theatre features Gertrude McCoy in The Isle of Love.
The piece depicts Venustiano Carranza as a shaky leader in a Mexico unsettled by foreign intervention and internal rivals. It jokes about his authority, his stance toward Pancho Villa, and the impact of foreign investment on taxes and the economy, ending with a note on a new auto‑registering device for oxide carbon in illuminating gas.
A reader warns about persistent child illness from winter confinement and poor appetite. It suggests morning orange juice, after noon Pink Pills, and evening doses, tracking weight gain over two weeks to assess progress, plus a diet book from Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Schenectady New York.
A wife explains she avoids asking if her hat is on straight to spare her husband embarrassment, maintaining the only hat she has worn in three years. The note adds a Siberian railway branch expansion revealing a vast coal field and South Africa’s cane cultivation push with a new sugar mill in Zulu land.
Mrs HaRolp M Smith of Clarksburg West Virginia credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a long suppression at age 16 and helping through pregnancy and summer illness. The ad claims forty years of use easing back ache nervousness uterine and ovarian inflammation weakness displacements irregularity and pains. Readers are invited to write for confidential advice to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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