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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
2
Bots and Peres Advertising represent GS Eindenstein in New York City as of the date given. The brief notice names the firms and the client in a city marketing context.
Ten weeks into the war many Americans view the struggle as distant and believe it will wear itself out. Indifferent citizens refuse burdens or to inform themselves about Germany's aims, slowing collective defense efforts. The article cites warnings from Cheradame and Von Goetzen, noting that slackers at home hinder those who do fight, with a French saying urging courage if others fight. It ends with a note on Canada’s Maritime provinces population.
A ponderous meditation on national identity and labor, urging readers to see the banner as a reflection of collective effort. It frames work as the day’s work of the weakest and the largest dream of the bold, linking stars and stripes to shared courage and purpose.
An error appeared identifying a colored man struck by the Snyder automobile Tuesday evening. The correct person is J. F. Davis, a white man, who did not suffer injuries and who instead helped transport the colored man home.
A fragmentary page mixes poems and local notices with wartime chatter. It mocks weather guesswork while urging Liberty Bonds, lists residents visiting New Castle, and notes pro war sentiment and public campaigns like Hats Off to the Flag amid scarce paper and growing food concerns.
A fragmented wartime propaganda piece urges citizens to buy Liberty Bonds. It attacks apathy, pleads for national unity, and invokes patriotism with references to Freedom's Land and the Starry Flag. It stresses that every adult should invest as much as possible.
A reader notices listings for multiple venues: Nixon Theatre showing Moving Pictures with Myrile Gonzalez in Southern Twilight at the Star Theatre, featuring June Caprice in A Child of the Wild. Regent Theatre presents Moving Pictures starring Ethel Clayton in The Stolen Paradise.
Washington June 14 Two hundred alien enemies Germans have been arrested since the war declaration and conveyed to detention. Many had been watched by the department, others rounded up after the president’s proclamation. Several harmless aliens have been paroled to live at home under government supervision. Details on arrests by city or region were not released.
Indianapolis June 14 The War Department will consider moral conditions at camp sites for Indiana Kentucky troops and a campaign to rid the city of vice is urged. Police move to close resorts drive disreputable hotels and stop bootlegging to protect cadet officers training at Fort Harrison.
Cleveland women fill wartime labor, operating engines at the Erie roundhouse and lathes in the shops. About fifty in overalls work the roundhouse, two dozen plus in chops, plus thirty five in checkers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. They say the toil is not harder than washing or ironing.
New York June 14 announcement that Dupont powder manufacturers VE.1 declared a special one percent dividend for the Red Cross fund for the army. The dividend totals about four dollars per thousand to aid wartime relief, following a previous similar move by U S Steel which declared a substantial per cent dividend for the same purpose.
The blurred list shows marriage licenses with names tied to Mercer and surrounding counties and a stray Valley and New Castle mentions. A separate oddity headline asks who kicked the dachshund, tied to a Kaiser remark about war and apologies, reported by Savannah News.
Shenango Presbytery holds its regular June session this day at Unity Presbyterian church in Merj cor county. Attending ministers include Tiley, Robert Little of Friar church, Rev. M. F. Neabitt of Central church, Rev. Robert Young of Mahoningtown, and Rev. W. H. Crapper of Fourth church.
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