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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1936
Page
6
In 1936 New York the writer laments the fading of glamorous playboys once represented by figures like Diamond Jim Brady and Boni de Castellane. He notes dull replacements among the new social set and observes that reporters struggle to find colorful personalities amid a wave of mediocre fixtures in nightlife and journalism.
Highland Heights and neighboring towns host a series of social calls and visits. D T Hickmans of Oil City and James Kennedys of Rose Point visited A L Johnson and John Coulter families amid a week of calls in Shar on, Youngstown, East Liverpool, and Harlansburg road communities. A Christian Alliance church class met at Nellie Adams’s home for a Tuesday wiener roast with fifty members present.
County commissioners report concrete highway will be torn up to straighten it for the new viaduct near Edenburg. In court A B Stoner vs Ralph Twentier involves a rule on interrogatories in a judgment open case. Truck drivers on the Edenburg viaduct work sixteen hours daily hauling shale from a Hillsville quarry. Sheriff Pritchard invited to Erie sheriff’s convention July 13 15. Foreclosures show gradual decrease per Federal Home Loan Bank data by Register Hanna across 840 communities. April totals drop from 16 732 in 1935 to 12 628 this year. Interstate law outlines estate rules raising heirs shares and widow and perpetual exemptions. West Pittsburg road viewers Hettenbaugh Baer Main report vacating sections. Mercer judge Rowley to sit June 19 with Judge Chambers for argument on cases Braham influenced. Settlement approved in Book/McMillin/Morrow estate with Eleanor McMillin recipient and guardian McElwee to receive specified sums before discharge in 1936.
An old advertisement urges spreading Peterman's Ant Food along window sills and doorways to kill red ants and black ants. It claims quick, 24 hour effectiveness and urges purchase at druggists for 25c 35c or 60c.
City hall activity slowed with council sessions sparse and only routine actions recorded. Mayor McGrath was at the Republican convention in Cleveland and Finance Director Fink served as acting mayor.
New Castle parochial schools will end the 1935 36 term next Friday morning. Several hundred eighth grade students from St Marys St Josephs St Philip and James and St Michaels will graduate.
The Townsend club No 6 meets Tuesday evening at 8 in the Power Prayer room Haus and Croton avenues. A meeting of members is tonight at the Union Brewery at 7 30 to discuss opening a camp at Sans Souci Ontario Canada later in the month. Clendenin hall hosts the weekly event with speakers from out of town and a social period after for members and friends.
Karl Rohrer, secretary of the Pennsylvania club, announced today that the group will hold a meeting. Further details were not provided in the available text.
Townsend Club No 1 announces a member meeting this evening to discuss club affairs and upcoming events at an unspecified location. Members are urged to attend promptly for official business and planning.
The note argues the representative form of government has a bright side, referencing Zioncheck to suggest the system functions despite flaws. It frames government as workable when compared to other options.
The ad proclaims an oldest engineering organization and asserts no other improvement in refrigeration has as much impact on your finances. It urges readers to be fair to themselves and seek the mentioned benefit.
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