Poor House Planned By Ellwood City
Ellwood City plans to convert the Hazel Dell school building into a city poor house after a new facility is completed. The plan includes repairing the old frame structure for habitation and using remaining space to rent to tenants to cover upkeep. Currently the city lacks a designated poor house and aids residents with money and provisions.
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Ae News
Wood City News Co
Ellwood City
Hazel Dell
Fourth Ward
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Mothers
Letters from New Orleans and Philadelphia praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from irregularity backache dizziness and lack of appetite. The women claim improved health and urge other women to try the remedy and write for advice from Lydia E Pinkham Med Co Lynn Mass.
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New Orleans
Lydin E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Philadelphia
Lydia E.pinkham
E. J. Purdy
Race Street
Lydia FE
Pinkham Med. Co
Lynn
Mass
Golf Handicap Rankings Set for Ellwood City Club Season
Ellwood City golfers receive season handicaps from the handicap committee as qualifying rounds for the Nicholson cup proceed. The sixteens begin next Saturday with many players starting the new season with higher handicaps overall while several men see reductions.
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Ellwood City
Flower Mission Day Observed by Ellwood City W C T U
Ellwood City W C T U observes Flower Mission Day with a 2 PM meeting at Mrs H H Reynolds home. Flowers will be distributed to the hospital the aged infirm and ill with residents asked to donate flowers at local grocery stores for pickup.
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Ellwood City
H. H. Reynolds
St Gathas Church Is Converted To Schoolhouse
The former St Agathas Catholic church building has been moved to the rear of the lot and will now serve as a parochial schoolhouse. The new church is advancing quickly and the congregation hopes to occupy it before fall. Paul W Blocher and family returned from Detroit by car after visiting friends.
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Ellwood City
St. Agatha’s Catholic Church
Paul W. Blocher
Detroit
Bell Telephone Plans New Exchange Building in City
Bell Telephone company has secured options on multiple lots on Bell avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets and in the West End for a brick modern design exchange building. The plant supervisor's office and equipment will move from the Stevenson Building at Seventh Street and Lawrence Avenue to the new quarters once completed, with completion aimed before winter due to increased business.
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Wood City News Co
Ellwood City
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Avenue
Fifth and
Sixth Streets
West End
Pittsburg Company
The
Telephone Company
Exchange
Stevenson
Seventh Street
Lawrence Avenue
Knights Hold Memorial Services in Local Parade
The Knight of Pythias held annual memorial exercises at Locust Grove cemetery with Rev. J. D. Heazleton delivering the principal address. Several hundred members marched from surrounding towns including New Castle Evans City Zelienople and Wampum to attend.
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Ellwood City
Knight of Pythias
Locust Grove
J. D. Heazleton
Methodist Church
New Castle
Evans City
Zelienople
Wampum
Children’s Day Program at Immanuel Reformed Church
A large crowd attended Children’s Day services at Immanuel Reformed Church in Ellwood City. The morning program included hymns prayers readings and recitations by the Sunday school, with Rev. James B. Musser delivering a sermon on God Dwells in the Human Heart in the evening. Benediction for Mrs. James McDermott of Spring Avenue is ill at home.
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Ellwood City
Immanual Reformed Church
James B. Musser
Holy Ghost
Charles Stevenson
Rita Christy
Lord
Holy Spirit
Charles Christy
Woods
Nichols
James McDermott
Spring Avenue
Favorite Prescription Promises Health For Women At Key Life Stages
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for girls becoming women and women mothers and during middle life. It cites anecdotal improvement from Mrs. D. H. Luprin and invites sick women to consult the doctor free from the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo. It also promotes Dr. Pierce's Pellets as a modern remedy for headaches and digestive ills.
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Dr. Pierce
D. H. Luprin
Franklin Street
Reading
Pink Pills Promise to Restore Color and Vitality
Article explains anemia as thin blood causing pale cheeks and lips and tiredness. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder that increases red blood cells, boosts appetite and energy, and offers a free booklet on Building Up the Blood. Available by mail order or local drugstores with price details.
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Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Orangemen Take Part In Parade
Ellwood City units from two Orange lodges joined a Protestant parade at New Brighton and Beaver Falls on Saturday. The Wurtemburg band led the Ellwood City delegation with escorts from the Uniformed Bank Knights of Malta and Uniform Rank Woodmen of the World. W. J. Holman of Pittsburgh was chief marshal with Harry W. Kirker as aide.
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Ellwood City
New Brighton
Beaver Falls
Wurtemburg
Bank
Knights of Malta
W. J. Holman
Pittsburg
Harry W. Kirker
City Clerk Transcribes Names to Tax Duplicates
Ellwood City reports City Clerk Moyer busy copying thousands of names from the assessors books onto the tax duplicates. The work is lengthy and tedious but proceeding steadily.
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Ellwood City
Moyer
Woman Kicks City Worker in Philadelphia Office
In Philadelphia on June 12 Mrs Anglotonio Lespolbonta, 1802 South Twelfth Street, caused a disturbance in the health bureau by accusing laxity of sanitation officials of causing her child's death. She knocked down Charles Forrest, a sanitation division messenger, and had to be pulled away by other staff and guards. Forrest is a 100 pound grandson of a tragedian.
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Philadelphia
Bureau of Health
Anglotonio Lespolbonta
South Twefth
Krusen
Charles Forrest
Division of Sanitation
Forrest
Vote Million And Half For Roads
A director’s office notice discusses a plan to approve a road measure. An official claims a confrontation occurred after discovering actions by a male party. A claim is made that a daughter died from typhoid fever linked to cellar water.
Polk County Bonds For Roads Set Record
New Castle and Lawrence county discuss a 400000 bond for county roads while Polk County voters authorize a 1500000 bond for 217 miles of asphalt roads to be built in 400 days. The Polk County Record notes 2761 for and 1306 against, marking a historic leap for road financing in the United States.
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New Castle
Polk County
Florida
United States
Lawrence County
Bartow
Fla
Gasoline From Gas Promises Boost For Ridgway Plant
Ridgway, June 12. The Manufacturers' Gas company plans to start a new oil absorption method to extract gasoline from gas. Gas will be treated at the McKinley pumping station in Elk county, using 10,000,000 cubic feet daily to yield about one pint and a half per 1000 cubic feet. The process bubbles gas through oil, then separates with a steam still and reuses the absorbent oil.
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Ridgway
United States
Manufacturers’ Gas Company
Pennsylvania
New York
Mammoth
McKinley
Elk County
Jefferson and
Warning device alerts steersman in English ships
Electrical apparatus has been invented in England to notify a ship's officer when a steersman allows a vessel to deviate from a set course.
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England
Daily Thought Reflects on Golden Moments and Angels
A reflective line on life’s passing moments as sand slips by and angels appear only after they depart, attributed to George Fiiot.
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George Fiiot
Iron Power Claims for Boost in Vitality at 50
A New York physician touts nuxated iron as a universal strength builder. He cites a case of an almost 50 year old man who regained youthful vigor after using the supplement, claiming improved blood iron raises energy and endurance within days. The ad urges readers to test strength before and after two weeks of two five grain tablets three times daily after meals. It promises refunds and a $100 charity pledge if results fail and notes local dispensers Love and Megown and Clutton Drug Store.
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New York
N. Y
E. Sauer, M. D
Dr. Sauer
Love and Megown and
Clutton Drug Store
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