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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1913
Page
4
Special notice lists The News Company New Castle Pennsylvania officers and staff with addresses for mail and business. It provides publication schedule daily except Sundays, pricing for subscriptions, sale points, and a blanket instruction to address payments to The News Company rather than individuals.
A Washington dispatch from the agriculture department says demand for beef outstrips supply and prices rise as beef cattle numbers shrink from 51,566,000 on January 1 to 36,030,000 at year’s start. Officials urge conserving meat and expanding poultry and crops, noting Australian beef and mutton shipments to California affect local prices.
A Saturday sermon urges choosing the sunshine business as a path to profit and personal vitality. It compares sunshine in the soul to daily warmth, advising to discard anger regret worry and envy to keep sunshine active in daily life.
A mangled, incoherent text fragment appears to describe marital strain with questions about separation and another unspecified issue. No clear names, dates, places, or actions are identifiable from the OCR snippet.
Thomas Brown, jailed for assaulting Gladys Barnes and Catherine Ritchie, was judged feeble minded by Judge Porter. Doctors testified he is mentally defective and unable to read or spell, with inconsistent ages given. a Polk home placement requires superintendent consent.
In New Castle a hardware store window displays a four legged Plymouth Rock chick hatched from a normal egg. The creature, once alive and seen by the Schaenfeld family, died soon after and now draws curious crowds.
A collage of patriotic reflections and local notes spans Old Glory campaigns, almanac heat forecasts, political talk, trolley travel, Westminster decorations, funeral sermon pay debate, and an offhand remark about burglars. The piece blends sentiment with light social observations and civic musings.
A string of Abe Martin quips covers cheerful optimism, a swarming bees tale with a saw, meat prices and pig-raising in New Castle, Sunday football plans, paving repairs on Mercer street, gossip, a Philadelphia debtor missing, cautions about sharing secrets, and a note on charity advertising.
A humorous exchange at a shoe store centers on a customer insisting on size three shoes. The polite salesman points out three possible fits for a size three foot, exposing the mismatch between stated size and actual foot measurements.
Chicago June 14 Jack Johnson a negro heavyweight prize fighter was granted five additional days to prepare a writ of error to appeal his Mann Act conviction. Federal Judge Carpenter suspended the sentence until June 23 allowing Johnson more time before custody.
The piece muses on political ambition and the traits of office seekers. It contrasts failures and triumphs of Taft Bryan Wilson Marshall and others, noting how ambition changes figures and suggesting to curb campaigns by removing campaign signs and wires.
A column railing at advertising waste argues newspapers drive public affairs and hints at civic reform. It notes a dogcatcher debate, urges mayoral support, cites Friday the 13th drinking rumor, and laments scaled attention to local road issues while praising school officials.
The Midland Limestone company with New Castle stockholders petitions Allegheny county court for dissolution. Hearing set for July 11 with Patterson Sterrett and Acheson representing petitioners.
It reports the assassination of Shevket Pasha the Turkish Grand Vizier by two young Turks as he traveled toward the Sublime Porte in an automobile amid the Enver Bey revolution. Nazim Pasha is mentioned in connection with the event.
Mayor Tyler returned four ordinances to the city clerk after final council approval. The measures authorize sewer improvements on Pottery Harbor Street Wilson Avenue and the city park, extend South Mercer Street from Division to Sutton, and pave Moravia Street from Gardner Avenue to the city line. The article also notes a violin solo by Miss Brewster and a women’s auxiliary meeting at South View Farm discussing The Country of Mexico with Mrs. Mitcheltree leading and plans for the next gathering.
City officials observe Flag Day as flags float over City Hall. Clerks finish updating tax duplicate books while the finance committee fails to achieve a quorum in council session.
Local residents visit New Bedford New Castle Hillsville Lowellville and Kl towns with many moving visits. The M E church is being painted while the Christian church nears completion. Edenburg Cornet band heads to Mahoningtown for a Presbyterian lawn fete with wives and guests. A church supper and musical program at the M E church drew praise for fine performances.
Last night an arrest was made on suspicion of the name Thomas Josephs, later discharged this morning. The board of health reports ten disease cases in the past week: four measles, two scarlet fever, two typhoid fever, two diphtheria. This morning three contagion cases include diphtheria and measles on East Reynolds and West Clayton streets and 616 Long Avenue.
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