New Castle Man Charged After Fatal Shooting and Beating
Dennis Egan, 28, of New Castle, is charged with shooting Ruby Hurd, 20, and beating her with a flatiron at Arthur Frazier’s Buckeye street home in Garrettsville. Ruby died. Lena Hurd, 16, escaped injury as Egan shot at her then attempted suicide. Egan is reported as seriously injured in hospital. he is well known in New Castle, with past ties to the tin mill era.
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Arthur Frazier
Buckeye Street
Lena Hurd
Egan
New Castle
Ruby
Dennis Egan
Indians Make Own Dyes in Seattle
In Seattle on June 12, Indian manufacturer known as Chem or Steve explains he makes his own dyes using traditional methods. He and his family dye berry containers and cooking vessels with colors derived from swampland mud for black, alder bark for red and pink, tanbark from hemlock for brown, and Oregon grape root for yellow, avoiding imports.
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Seattle
Wash
Chem
Steve
British Columbia
Germany
Cave homes turn to fine country estates in wheat belt
The Garber Oklahoma Dispatch notes pioneers built sod houses with cave homes requiring only plaster for finishing. Today the area hosts the state’s finest country homes in the wheat belt, reflecting a dramatic shift from humble pioneer shelters to prosperous residences near Chicago Examiner.
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Wheat Belt
Garber
Okla
Dispatch
Chicago Examiner
Pronunciation tips amuse Confederate judge and wife
In a My Day anecdote, Roger A. Pryor famed Confederate general and later lawyer is teased by his wife over mispronunciations. A Virginia girl under their care at White Sulphur Springs pretends errors to elicit praise from the judge.
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Roger A. Pryor
New York
White Sulphur Springs
Virginia
Lizzie
Innocent
Pine Belt Drives Newfoundland Timber Outlook
The Newfound land woods feature birch juniper pine fir and spruce with spruce most abundant but often too small for profitable lumber. Some mills have closed and more may follow as pulp wood replaces lumber. A pine belt of 2000 square miles in Exploits and Gander valleys holds white pine valued at 50 to 55 dollars per thousand feet, with remaining timber mixed with other woods making extraction labor intensive and often unprofitable unless other cut materials are used simultaneously.
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Newfoundland
Health tonic Goldine promotes vigor in New Castle
An advertisement targets men and women in New Castle urging trials of Goldine a herb tonic. It claims rapid effects improving digestion nerves heart and vitality while warning against harsh drugs and offering a free dose sample with no obligation at Hainer drug store and other Lawrence county outlets.
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Nature
New Castle
Hainer Drug Store
Washington St
New
Sonally
Lawrence County
John F. Neely
Long and
Mill Streets
A. C. Hyde
Mahoningtown
Arthur Cohen
Ellwood City
B. F. Rhodes
Wampum
Raub Bros
Edenburg
Kline Company
West Pittsburg
B. F. Morehead
The Poet Bets His Poems Sell to a Magazine
A group of writers dine together and critique each other. One poet wagers five dollars he can sell his verses to a magazine and wins every time. He explains his secret: he never reads a poem to the group until it is already sold.
Pioneer Peters Cave Home Hidden Under Porch
The Peters family lived in a cave dug in 1894 beneath a sandstone ledge north of town. Two large rooms extend 60 feet underground with a skylight and whitewashed rock roof, kept dry and lit enough to read newspapers. The family stayed there months before building an above ground home. smoke rose from the skylight as visitors marveled at the unique dwelling.
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S. H. Peters
Mr. Peters
Merediths Dinner Silence Meaning Excuse the Picnic Stretch
An anecdote from J A Ham merton recounts George Meredith’s rare silence at a Surrey dinner. A guest awaited his famed wit but only remembered his quip as he passed the salt, saying Excuse the picnic stretch.
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J. A. Hammerton
George Meredith
Surrey
Meredith
How can you tell a Yale man from a Harvard man
A reader’s quip contrasts Yale and Harvard men with a jab about ownership and ignorance. The exchange plays on elitism and social pretensions, depicting Yale as confident and worldly while Harvard is depicted as aloof and indifferent.
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Yale
Harvard
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New Castle Electric Co
E. Washington St
Union
Ohio Varnish Company
Paten
U. S
Cleveiena.o USA
Sample Hardware Company
East Cherry Street
Shenango Valley Hospital
New Castle and
Lawrence
Justice Hughes
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indiana
McKee
North Mill Street
New Castle, Pa
Star Theatre
Anita Stewart
Vitagraph
William Fox
Maude Cilbert
William Fooker
Sitle
Boston
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